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<blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 984172" data-attributes="member: 354">See, for me, it's different. Unfortunatly, my views on the first two points are off topic for this thread, and would probably result in it being locked.As for the third, if you choose to not eat meat for health reasons, fine. I can respect that. I wouldn't do it, but I can respect that. I sure hope I never see it. I have more ethical qualms with growing chunks of an animal to eat than slaughtering an animal to eat. The former is just... disturbing, on a number of levels.Besides, that whole &quot;engineered to be healthy&quot; stuff... Blech. No offense, but that's sort of like Diet, Caffine Free Coke. It's not coke. It's a pale shadow of coke that in no way takes the place of coke. I would rather not drink coke that drink that stuff, it's so bad. You can't tamper with the basic structure of something and have it stay the same.If your objection is the mass-market production lines, as others have said, there alternatives. You can get meat from local farmers fairly easily in most places, for example. Or you can kill it yourself. I've hunted for several years now, and my family has raised chickens and such. There you have control over how the animals are raised and slaughtered, if you like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tsyr, post: 984172, member: 354"] See, for me, it's different. Unfortunatly, my views on the first two points are off topic for this thread, and would probably result in it being locked. As for the third, if you choose to not eat meat for health reasons, fine. I can respect that. I wouldn't do it, but I can respect that. I sure hope I never see it. I have more ethical qualms with growing chunks of an animal to eat than slaughtering an animal to eat. The former is just... disturbing, on a number of levels. Besides, that whole "engineered to be healthy" stuff... Blech. No offense, but that's sort of like Diet, Caffine Free Coke. It's not coke. It's a pale shadow of coke that in no way takes the place of coke. I would rather not drink coke that drink that stuff, it's so bad. You can't tamper with the basic structure of something and have it stay the same. If your objection is the mass-market production lines, as others have said, there alternatives. You can get meat from local farmers fairly easily in most places, for example. Or you can kill it yourself. I've hunted for several years now, and my family has raised chickens and such. There you have control over how the animals are raised and slaughtered, if you like. [/QUOTE]

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