You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: Eating Lab-Grown Eel Meat (Japanese Unagi)

in Foodies Bee Hivelast year

Nope, unlikely I would. We already eat enough crap, and the quality has only been worsening. I do agree that we need a lot more balanced diet, but lab meat raises soooo many questions, and not even talking about the ethics part. What processes/chemicals are used? What effect in our bodies? Long term studies? I am very mindful of everything that enters my body, orally or injected, and unless I have VERY convincing answers... it's a no for me.

Sort:  

That's a very good point. If it's grown chemical free then it could possibly be healthier than the real thing, free from parasites and other nasty things that animals get from the environment (like microplastics and mercury—thanks, humans). But if it is grown with chemicals what chemicals? How safe are these for us? Yes, good question!

And given how studies about everything that gives a ton of profit tend to be "blurry" when made by the same company providing the product... I will wait. All the changes in the food that we normally eat are probably the cause of a ton of auto-immune disorders; I'll try and eat as natural as I can, minimum of processed food and if possible coming from biological sources. After all... we are what we eat! ;)

Studies about everything tend to be "blurry" unfortunately. Few scientists are removed from bias. Like all these coffee studies that show how good coffee is for us, for example. But the results are only interpreted that way because the people doing the study love coffee and they want it to do well. I'd like it to do well too, but at the same time I want a real non-bias result that shows the good and the bad. It's not their fault—human bias is almost impossible to remove. This is one area that AI may really help us, by removing even the unconscious bias.

I guess we'll see a ton of AI improvement in a (very) near future... so we'll find out for sure! :)