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Probably less important when dealing with animals, where it's usually more cut and dry, but I've got some hangups about our ability to make objective decisions about what is "in something/one's best interests."
I see the point. I won't say I necessarily agree with it. I think the ethical considerations are much stronger in the "in favor of" column for this development than in the "against." Which TBH, I don't know if that's a statement Jim East was disagreeing with. I do think that in the future we could probably improve the ethics of this kind of process by applying more rigorous standards, but in the near term its probably better to focus on stopping killing animals for food in general.
Either way, it doesn't really matter for my actions, as I don't have access to lab-grown meat anyway.
Yeah, me too :/ It's like every human (or animal) right - it has to be enforced by people, and people are pretty shitty. I don't think that means we reject the principle, it means we put guardrails around it to try and prevent errors and abuses.
And I certainly agree: lab grown meat is far less heinous and morally offensive than factory farming. It involves a moral compromise for vegans, but, well, so does almost everything else. We can recognize both aspects.