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Comment by lm28469 | Hacker News Reader

All you need is soy beans, water and some acid... you can do that at home with a pot a fork and an old tshirt, good luck making chicken meat like that

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Of course you can make your own chicken meat in your house, with just a knife and a chicken. But this is about not needing, you know, the chicken.

Yes you're making my point, you either need to abuse live animals or make it in industrial scale factories.

Whereas alternatives can be made at home from raw ingredients and minimum processing, today, cheaper than meat, just as nutritious, without the need of anything more technological than a stove

Sure, but we can’t meet everyone’s nutritional needs by cooking raw ingredients at home. We need these solutions, if you can afford alternatives then go for it. But we should be promoting all solutions .

Slaughtering an animal for food isn't abuse.

It is an abuse. Animal abuse is rampant in the practice of factory farming, and a visit to such facilities would make it clear just how much these animals suffer. Therefore, it is important for consumers to avoid being misled by labels such as "happy cows" on meat products and to be mindful of the ethical implications of their choices.

Great grandparent comment said roughly "You can make chicken meat at home with just a chicken and a knife." While factory farming may be abusive, that is not what this discussion thread is about.

Are you saying you eat tofu made this way? Or are saying you are eating commercially made tofu, but feel better about it because the tofu could also be made in a rustic manner?

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