Guilt free Sausages?

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Just saw an article on the BBC regarding Oxford University's new way of cultivating 'guilt free' pork. Great, I thought, no more worrying about little piggies being slaughtered in their millions while I chow down on my bacon buttie.

Unfortunately I then read this:

"The process involves cutting small amounts of fat and muscle from an anaesthetised pig before supplying the samples with nutrients, minerals and vitamins."

What? Now we don't don't just kill and then eat them, we now do a Hannibal Lector and anesthetise them to cut bits off them to then grow in vats.

Now, to me, that is nowhere near guilt free pork and I think I would prefer just them being killed to be eaten, not this weird halfway house version.

I can't link to the full Times story as it is behind a paywall.

And finally, the Times reports "guilt-free sausages" could be on your plate as soon as next year.

Using technology developed at Oxford University, experts say they can produce pork cultivated in tanks.

The process involves cutting small amounts of fat and muscle from an anaesthetised pig before supplying the samples with nutrients, minerals and vitamins.

Ivy Farm Technologies hopes to be able to produce enough pork by 2025 to save 170,000 pigs a year from being slaughtered - and in a nod to the nursery rhyme, the Times points out "now all little piggies can stay at home".
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Fairly sure Dwight Schrute came up with something similar for burgers in the US office...
 
Now not all little piggies stay at home because if there is 170,000 less demand, there will be 170,000 less little piggies reared.
 
Hagar said:
Now not all little piggies stay at home because if there is 170,000 less demand, there will be 170,000 less little piggies reared.
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This exactly. Farming animals is currently under the microscope of modern scrutiny but the ultimate outcome is billions of animals will simply cease to exist if humanity decides it's unethical.

Animal cruelty solved by eradicating the animal from existing ... Win I guess.
Then we will move onto humans.....
 
Efour said:
This exactly. Farming animals is currently under the microscope of modern scrutiny but the ultimate outcome is billions of animals will simply cease to exist if humanity decides it's unethical.

Animal cruelty solved by eradicating the animal from existing ... Win I guess.
Then we will move onto humans.....
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Nonsense. You just won't need to farm and then kill millions over and over and over.
 
Hagar said:
Now not all little piggies stay at home because if there is 170,000 less demand, there will be 170,000 less little piggies reared.
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Efour said:
This exactly. Farming animals is currently under the microscope of modern scrutiny but the ultimate outcome is billions of animals will simply cease to exist if humanity decides it's unethical.

Animal cruelty solved by eradicating the animal from existing ... Win I guess.
Then we will move onto humans.....
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Exactly. 170,00 less piggies will get fattened for ultimate slaughter.

Although I bet the harvesting farms will be a bit grim with anaesthetised pigs strapped down while bits are carved off them. The cruelty of man has no bounds.
 
Am waitimg for someone to *suggest* eating humans next... to save animals, apparently.

Tho turning humans into machines (and thus not eating plants or animals) might precede it if it hasn't been stated as a goal by a vegetarian/ vegan already.
 
The Richmond meat free sausages are pretty good and can be used for any sausage related purpose.
And the Linda McCartney vegetarian ones are very good grilled in a sandwich.
If you are a total heathen who prefers their sausages square (you monster), Simon Howie do a passable one you could eat whilst returning back to hell.
 
Tho if someone can ensure good quality animal meat protein at a reasonable price (by whatever means), they are onto a winner.

I surmised 30 years ago that engineered high quality meat was a smart goal. Good to see them making progress.
 
ha isn't it ironic that the process of developing meat without killing animals is just as horrendous as killing animals.
I guess I would try if it came on the market and looked okay. It is a step in the right direction I think.
 
Ploughing and harvesting kills small animals in vast numbers. Pest control also has a high body count to ensure non-animal products are able to get to your plate. Very little of what you will ever eat didn't come at the expense of something else's life along the way and that will likely continue no matter the improvements in farming or artificial food production like this.
 
I always think back to the film Babe. A pig has basically no real use in society but for its meat. That's thousands of years of evolution that has brought that. If everyone were to stop eating pork tomorrow they will go extinct or be kept in zoos. They will not be roaming about in fields like the ********** will want to believe.

They are too large for 99% of households to keep as pets and unlike chickens, cows, goats, sheep etc offer absolutely nothing but their meat.
 
adam cool dude said:
I always think back to the film Babe. A pig has basically no real use in society but for its meat. That's thousands of years of evolution that has brought that. If everyone were to stop eating pork tomorrow they will go extinct or be kept in zoos. They will not be roaming about in fields like the ********** will want to believe.

They are too large for 99% of households to keep as pets and unlike chickens, cows, goats, sheep etc offer absolutely nothing but their meat.
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Pigskin leather.
Bristles (maybe outdated).
Ideal method of getting rid of humans (or anything) without trace.
 
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