Let’s Launch A Moonshot For Meatless Meat

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The author is a vegan but not a militant one. The majority of the article spells out the risks of continued meat consumption - more novel coronavirus scenarios, more environmental dangers and intensified cruelty to animals. That last bit is probably where most folks put up their guard but if you've done the least bit of Googling, there's no way to rationalize away that the quantity of animals being consumed en masse are suffering. Even if you make sure to go to some meat market where the animals are treated well, that doesn't waive the cruelties of the entire system.

The most interesting part of the piece is that it's not a guilt-inducing doom-and-gloom overture, it's offering some real solutions through technology. Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are making great strides in alternative meats and there's more non-dairy milk substitutes available now than you can shake a stick at; we just need to throw more money at those kinds of undertakings to supercharge them.

I've been a vegetarian for around 5 years; a very small portion of my entire life but I fail to see how anyone could read this and not decide that curbing their meat intake was a good idea.