On: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

[SketchySeaBeast]

As someone who enjoys meat, I'm excited to be able to finally get options that don't involve killing something to get there.

[the8472 → SketchySeaBeast]

Plants are living things. If you want to eat without killing then you'd need ab initio synthesized nutrients or subsist on detritus.

[Falling3 → the8472]

If I were the parent I would've phrased that differently. But, as long as we're being pedantic, eating from plants is possible without killing the organism.

[gweinberg → Falling3]

Animals also.

[firethief → gweinberg]

Not profitably. Cows can't be kept recently-pregnant without way too many calves; half of chicks are useless males.

[jogjayr → firethief]

> half of chicks are useless males.

That may soon be a thing of the past.[1][2]

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/30/chick-culling-germany-makes-...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/22/worlds-f...

[Falling3 → jogjayr]

This is a big step, but don't forget that commercial layers are also slaughtered very young after egg production wanes.

[knolax → gweinberg]

Yes but with animals the parts you harvest don't grow back.

[SketchySeaBeast → the8472]

Sorry, that doesn't involve killing something with a face.