On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 10:10:00 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> In article >,
> dsi1yahoo.com says...
> >
> > On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 9:08:08 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > > On 9/3/2016 2:15 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > You're in luck - in the future, we'll be 3-D printing our foods and microwaving it. No fire involved - unless you consider electromagnetic radiation to be "fire." I can't wait!
> > > >
> > >
> > > I can wait. Given a choice between a thick ribeye steak cooked over a
> > > hot fire and microwaved food, I'm taking the steak.
> >
> > What you say is true however, in the future, that choice will not be an option. We are rapidly approaching the end of man's association/partnership with meat.
>
> I think it's more likely that meat will come from factories, where it
> grows independently, without the need of an animal's brain and therefore
> without any suffering. It might even taste better than today's factory
> meat that comes with the management inconvenience that there's a whole
> animal attached to it.

I can't say which way we're going to go with this. We may grow meat without the animal as an interim step. My guess is that we'll eventually find some faster way of making the stuff or forego it completely. I, for one, don't think it's nice to kill an animal for meat - just don't put a nicely aged and grilled medium rare porterhouse in front of me. God knows what may happen.