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I do not totally understand the concept of non-meat meat. If you don't want to eat meat, there are a LOT of alternatives.

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What if I like meat but don’t want to be responsible for animal suffering?

Depends on how important animal suffering is vs eating pleasure to you, but you could considered curbing your cravings and just not eating it.

I’m sure they hadn’t considered that.

Most people don't. They ignore the issue maintain cognitive dissonance, because the choice is too difficult for them.

I don't think it was completely unintended that burying your head in the sand and going back to ignorant bliss is represented by eating a steak in The Matrix.

I mean if I can still get that pleasure and not contribute to animal suffering why not do that?

That's not yet a choice.

eat animals after they die of natural causes

Is that different from becoming vegetarian in any meaningful way? There is 0 availability of such meat, especially not at anything approaching a commercial scale.

Collect and eat road kill then...

Oh wait that's gross so no way. People make choices on what morally fits their views, not on logical solutions.

Then don't eat plants or have pets or deal with people who do either.

It's not a simple issue to just make a big yes/no choice on, much as you might feel good or less guilty for doing so.

That’s like saying there are a lot of alternatives to pizza. Sure, I could eat a meatball sub, but it’s not a pizza.

exactly, you can get the same nutrients from other food too. why do you need the exact texture and feel of meat if you don't want to eat meat.

I think there are lots of people who want to eat meat, but feel that it's cruel to animals or bad for the planet to eat it.

I mostly don't eat based on nutrients, but on the flavour and textures I enjoy. Which includes meat.

Why do you need any of that other food either then, just have your soylent green.

Cultured meat is meat, it's just not taken from slaughtered animals. So there's a world of difference between processing vegetable matter and faking it into meat-like substances, vs. culturing meat "humanely" with technology to avoid the perils of factory farming.

All things being equal, the promise is that cultured meat will be equivalent in taste, texture, nutrition, etc. to animal meat.

With the patents and centralised control some people dream of. I think this is something to be very cautious of.

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