Meat Vs Lab Meat

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Why do you eat a burger? The flavor? Lab Meat is meat made from a cell in a cow. It is suppose to completely better than the traditional way of growing of cows. Traditional way is actually better than lab-produced meat. Traditional way is better for you health. The traditional way is also cheaper than lab meat. The traditional way has more variety along with it is better for the environment. So let's see how the traditional way is better in detail.

One big question you have to ask is is this lab-grown meat good for our health. According to The Atlantic health section, eating their lab-grown meats can lead to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some kinds of cancer. Desley White ,lecturer in dietetics at Plymouth University, stated …show more content…

It is the complete opposite. Lab produced meat is very expensive to produce, The lab made meat cost 80 dollars a kilo. A kilo converts to about 2.2 pounds. That means you would be going to buy a burger and it would cost you 20 bucks to buy a quarter pounder. So, they take a piece of muscle off the cow then can produce 10 thousand kilos of meat out of that so it would cost 800 thousand dollars to produce that. It cost about 500 to raise a cow for a year . You can sell a cow for about 675 dollars so you are making about 175 dollars profit for growing a cow and killing it to sell the meat. A normal cow produces about 650 pounds of meat when killed and packaged according to ODA State(ODA.State.Edu) . They means it is making about 300 kilos of meat each cow while making profit. Yes, you might be making more meat producing it through a lab but you are not making money and it is worse for your health.Traditional growing of cows it helping out our economy while lab produced meat will be hurting it. This lab-created meat will also take enormous capital investment for Research & Development. Now let's hear how lab-created meat is hurting our …show more content…

The is limited to ground meat only. That means you won't be able to eat any other type of meat just a hamburger. Then there is the animal activists. They everyday to get the slaughtering of animals. Lab-produced meat might seem cruelty-free but it isn't according to The Independent Magazine(Connor 2012). So, you are slaughtering the animal for the bovine stem cells then just disposing of the corpse. The animal could be used for a benefit if you stayed with the traditional way. A tissue-engineering researcher ebem said “if you ask anyone who has worked in a lab, will tell you it will never going to happen.” Scientist and engineers don't even believe the product will make it to the public as a main source of meat because of the amount of energy and resources that go into it. It will take more energy to produce lab meat and which we most likely burn fossil fuels to get that energy which will contribute to Global Warming. This meat will not help our environment any more and it will only supply us with one type of meat.

All in all, Traditional growing of cows is better than lab-created meat. Traditional growing is healthy. Lab-meat has some foreseen health consequences but it has a lot of unforeseen health consequences according to independent.co.uk. Traditional growing of meat is also cheaper than lab-grown meat. It cost 80 dollars to just produce one kilo of meat. The hamburger

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