Recently tried an Impossible burger and nuggets and thought that if nobody told me it wasn’t meat, I’d have thought the patty was made out of a weird kind of meat, rather than make a connection with the taste and texture of plants. Honestly, I might not complain if that was the only kind of “meat” I could have for the rest of my life.
Well, maybe I’d miss bacon.
I’ve yet to find the opportunity to try lab-grown meat, but I for sure would like to try it out and don’t see much wrong with it as long as it’s sustainable, reasonably priced, and doesn’t have anything you wouldn’t expect in a normal piece of meat.
Also, with imitation and lab-grown options, I’d no longer have to deal with the disgust factor of handling raw meat (esp. the juices) or biting into gristle. I’ll happily devour a hot dog, but something about an unexpected bit of cartilage gives me a lingering sense of revulsion.
Do your share, get an outdoor cat
I live in a city, on a fourth floor, tragically, and I wouldn’t want my kitten to fall and / or get flattened by a car.
Plus, I work most of the day, and cats do need attention, and space. It’d be cruel to leave the poor critter alone in a small flat all that time.
And anyway the only¹ birds we’ve got around here are pigeons, which are almost certainly toxic and, at this point, mostly composed of microplastics, and seagulls², which ditto and would probably try to eat the cat.
1.— We used to have massive flocks of sparrows, too, and ducks in one of the rivers, but the sparrows are mostly gone due to climate change and insect collapse, and I’m fairly certain the seagulls ate the ducks (or at least enough ducklings for the flock to go extinct).
2.— We’re 34km from the coast. I have no idea where the seagulls came from. Horrible screeching parasites. Probably came up the river, eating the ducks on their way. River used to be full of carps… probably are those, too…