What will you be eating twenty years from now?

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Dirt, I’m afraid.

Well, in the future there will be plant-animal hybrids so you can get your fruit/vegetables/protein all in one serving. Mmmm Rhinomelon!

I doubt there will be anything different.

I’ll be eating from my own garden, that’s what I’ll be eating. Especially if this trend towards putting hormones into everything and genetically engineering everything continues. Yuck!

But here is one thing that is fairly new:
Broccoflower

Bacon.

So nobody sees that they’ll be eating meat protein grown in vats rather than raising animals for that purpose? Catch up people! That’s not ten years off. Better control, less damage to the environment, easier to create to taste, no killing of conscious beings required. Unless you just LIKE the idea that anuimals are getting killed for you, why wouldn’t you want that?

Yes, @Grisaille , I’m sure they’ll do bacon, too.

@6rant6 Is that a vegetarian rant?

Hopefully meat that is grown in labs, instead of taken from the bodies of conscious animals capable of suffering.

Edit: ah, someone already said this. I agree!

Genetically altered goop with all of the nutrients I need, and an unnaturally good taste.
I’ve got more of a positive outlook on the future.
That, or I’ll be eating Yao Guai meat

Nutripills.

@RedPowerLady Not intended as a rant.

It’s about choices offered and choices made. I would guess that in the US at least most people would call themselves animal lovers and most would say they eat meat. Are you one of them? Even if you have only middling respect for animals, why not choose an alternative that is healthier for you, healthier for the environment, and oh by the way doesn’t require the slaughter of animals?

I’m not a vegetarian myself, although I have cut down on meat. I don’t see it as a black and white issue. But let’s at least consider the alternatives, can we?

Turducken, only it won’t be each of them stuffed within one another, it will be an actual Turducken that was once living.

I don’t think it’s just that easy to eliminate meat from our diet as a civilization. Without meat, our sources of food would be significantly diminished. Even if you don’t agree with eating meat, the alternatives are as of right now sort of impractical, especially when so many of our crops are used for multiple things, other than food, like corn being used for fuel.

Chopped steak cheeseburgers, probably. That’s my favorite food. Would go out right now for one, but with the record low temperatures and eight inches of snow about to cover us, I’m preparing to just grill one on my front porch. Hopefully the grill will heat up enough, or inside for frying it is! YUM!!!

Your milkshake. Oh, wait, too late!

@6rant6 Actually I take quite a different view on the topic (and I find it an interesting one). I believe that one can respect animals AND eat them. But I don’t think that is being done with factory farmed animals. I think it can be done when we are talking of game meat.

To answer your question about “choosing the alternative” my answer would be a bit complicated. But simply stated I would say that many cultures revolve around the respect that is taught in living with and eating game animals. This is not harmful to the environment. I would not choose to disseminate culture for this option. However I would be a proponent of getting rid of farmed meat for other alternatives.

Having said that what is your alternative exactly? Because I’m not sure how genetically engineered meat protein could be healthy?

humans

New Zealand possum mcnuggets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Brushtail_Possum_(New_Zealand)

Same food I’ve always ate for ages
Pizza and beer
medium rare steak (RAAAGHHRAGHHRAGH)
white castle burgers
Peking Duck sandwiches
(if you’re in NYC, go to corner 28 at flushing,Queens)
Kool aid/hawaiian punch/Arizona Iced tea
Doner Kebabs
Maybe a few fruits and vegetables in between.

Chinese food.

Humble pie most likely.

@RedPowerLady If we raise meat cloned from our current beef stock, then it’s minimally as healthy as that. We have the option to genetically modify it to make it healthier. Plus the need for steroids and antibiotics goes away, and the process can be arranged to eliminate pollutants in the meat.

I agree with you about respect for life not equating to “don’t eat”. Still, horrible things are done in the name of providing for our dinner table. If it’s all the same, wouldn’t you want that to stop? I also suspect that the willingness to kill animals weakens our socialization not to kill each other. And I see not killing each other as a good thing.

You kill plants, too, to harvest them.

@Sarcasm I’m missing your point. And we don’t kill all the plants we eat.

@6rant6 I am sorry but I have to disagree. First you are not convincing me that cloned meat is healthy. Especially if it is GM.

In addition I would not rather have it just “stop”. I would rather have us learn respect for both culture and animal life (and plant life) simultaneously. Stopping altogether will not teach anyone respect for animals, culture, plants, the food industry etc.. That is my opinion and I see it differs from yours.

@redPowerLady

You’re pretty caught up in eating meat I can see. That’s fine. I’m not trying to get you to change, I’m just interested in thinking about the future.

Of course some people fear vat raised meat. People have fears about anything new. Still, we move forward, and eventually the superiority of the new ideas overcomes the resisitance. We all eat “genetically modified” food unless you eat from a garden with heirloom seeds in soil that you put in a cave twenty years ago. What happened to the hew and cry over genetically modified food? It went the way of the VCR.

I don’t need to convince you that cloned meat is better to eat, your grocery store will do that when it’s what they have for sale because it’s cheaper and safer. The ethical part is just a bonus.