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More patented life and another food product I plan to avoid.

I wonder if the average consumer will be as disgusted and turned off by the idea of eating genetically modfied meat as I am.


> average consumer will be as disgusted and turned off by the idea of eating genetically modfied meat as I am.

And yet people seem to be interested in lab-produced meat alternatives that use synthetic blood-like formula to make it taste like actual meat?


Right because of the idea that you can look at lab produced meat and feel like there is basically no suffering involved.


Most meat alternatives sit on the shelves around here even when we have people stocking up for severe weather and there's nothing else left.


> I wonder if the average consumer will be as disgusted and turned off by the idea of eating genetically modfied meat as I am.

quite the contrary. i think this should be celebrated as a great achievement and will happily eat it if it’s delicious :P


> I wonder if the average consumer will be as disgusted and turned off by the idea of eating genetically modfied meat as I am.

To me that sounds like being turned off by it containing dihydrogen monoxide. That is kind of a shame because the "patented life" angle is a real, serious problem worth attention but bundling it with shallow/trivial criticism like "turned off" (it literally tastes the same) makes it easy to dismiss.


Price tends to be a big persuader.


Not in the least. What’s so disgusting about it? Totally concerned about “patented life” however.


I think part of the fear is that they will expand it into a larger social network, that was my knee jerk reaction.


i can live with repo suggestions but if you want to build a social network use a subdomain or new top level

i dont want to see that Bjorn876 has followed Frodo42 in my github feed!


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