When I was looking for a topic to base my research paper, I was about to give up searching for something I was interested in and was going to do some generic thing about GMO's, but before that I asked my sister for some ideas. She offered the topic of cultured meat, and told me it was basically meat made in a lab. Immediately, I was disgusted, and I thought "What are scientists doing with their time? What's the point of making meat in a lab?" I was thinking that they were creating synthetic meat in their labs, but I was wrong.
As I continued my research, I found out that the concept of cultured meat, while being extremely unheard of, could possibly change the world. I'm not even exaggerating. What I found out cultured meat and its possible effects on the world, my mindset from the beginning changed and I completely supported cultured meat.
I found out that if cultured meat becomes popular and if its used often, it could help our environment because of the amount of resources and land that raising livestock uses up. It could help us save water and we could use that land for something else. Also the process of making cultured meat requires no harm to any animals, so for those vegans/vegetarians who don't support the way animals are treated in the food industry now can eat beef that did not harm the cow.
My mindset made a complete 180 when I researched this topic. I feel like when most people think of "made in a lab" they think of terrible experiments, but after researching the topic, I came to the conclusion that I would support it when it comes in grocery stores.
Wow that is crazy how a new meat could be made!!! I wonder what it would taste like! Would it taste crunchy? Would it be chewy like alligator? Would it be tender like steak?!! I hope it wouldn't be bland like tofu. But i'm glad that they will come up with new foods that can help save the Earth. I wonder how much it would cost? I hope it would be cheap enough to try it!
ReplyDeleteWell, it's supposed to taste just like regular meat, and the first person who actually made it said it seasoned it with just salt and said it tasted "reasonably good"
DeleteI want to read your paper because the idea of revolutionizing the food industry down to changing the food we are actually consuming sounds just extraordinary. The possible effects that it could have on the world would be crazy big.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in how the process of creating the meat goes though. Also, I'm curious in the negative effects of the cultured meat.
Just hearing "cultured meat" it kind of sounds bad and wrong, but I think the topic you chose probably makes for a really interesting read.
See, even after I did an entire research paper on cultured meat, I could not find one negative aspect about cultured meat except for the ethics of it. We never really know how new technology will harm us, until extensive research is done on it. Like how doctors used to say smoking was good until scientists found out it wasn't
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