The speaker suggests applying new technology which is called biofabrication. This technology can make meat or leather artificially, so we don’t need to kill animals to get them. He insists that it is wasteful and crazy to kill animals for food and clothing.
I welcome this new technology. From the view point of coping with the problem of water shortage or global warming in the future, biofabrication gives our society various possibility. Our livestock is one of the largest users of land, fresh water and also one of the biggest producers of greenhouse gases. As he says, next few decades we will need 100 billion animals for our meat. Supplementing our food with products of biofabrication is good idea, we don’t need to increase the number of animals.
But I disagree with the idea that all natural meat should be replaced with meat made by biofabrication. I have two reasons to support my idea.
First is the problem of culture and history. Human beings have been eating animals for long time in our history. There are many cultures in the world, and each culture has each idea for eating animals. These food culture are often related to their history or religions. This is very complex problem. Forcing to eat meat made by biofabrication is a little arrogant.
Second, I want to pick up the feeling of “thank”. Of course, killing animals is cruel thing. I feel sorry when I watch TV where animals are killed to make our food, and that’s why we appreciate eating them and try not to waste them. I think the feeling of “thank” is very important feeling for us. If people only eat food made by biofabrication, they would forget the feeling of “thank” because you can get food any time if you only have money. You don’t have to appreciate to eat them.
Biofabrication is very innovative and gives us many positive things. But it is difficult to impose the id
ea of not killing animals on everyone.