A new kind of meat

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POSTED: January 13, 2011

by Jon Hochschartner

To the editor:

In ‘Walden,’ Henry David Thoreau wrote, “I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.”

I share his optimism. Perhaps this strikes you as a sort of secular millennialism. But it would not surprise me if, within the coming centuries, we drastically reduce our consumption of meat, in the sense we traditionally know it.

I don’t, sadly, think this will be because of the reasonableness of the animal rights argument. Nor do I think it will be because of the growing environmental crisis, in which animal agriculture plays a prominent role. Rather, I think it will be because of something called “in-vitro” meat.


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