The speaker insists that it is not good to kill animals for our food and clothing. He suggests to apply biofabrication to what we eat and what we wear. It is a technology proliferating cells to grow biological products. He says animals are not just raw materials, they are living beings. We need to move pass just killing animals as resource. Biofabrication will make it possible.
Of course it is terrible at the point of taking the lives of animals, but I think it is not bad to eat animals. I have two reasons.
First, we take in various nutrition by eating animals. It may be possible to take nutrition from the meat made by biofabrication, but they are artificial things. Now an artificial sweetener and food additives are made by human and are included in foods, but they are not good for our health. It is worry to continue eating created things by chemicals.
Second, eating living beings has been gone on from the earliest times. Furthermore, it is done in the nature. A frog eats an insect, a snake eats a frog, and an eagle eats a snake. “The stronger prey on the weaker” was the rule of the nature, and human beings also survived in such an environment. So it is not bad thing. Though as human beings’ feeling develop highly, we think sorry to kill animals for our food and clothing. Then we have to appreciate for animals to give their lives. And we must not waste the lives at all. This is what we can do for our food. But if we only eat the meat made by biofabrication, the feeling of thanks for the food will disappear.
From this two reasons, I think it is not bad to eat animals. But what we must not forget is we eat “lives” and so we have to thank for the lives.