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Lede 1
Meat is essentially everywhere, even in places you wouldn’t have thought of. Heck, when you peruse a restaurant’s menu, almost every item has some type of meat in it – chicken, beef, pork, you name it. When was the last time you saw a place that serves purely vegetarian food? If so, how successful and well-known would it be? The majority of restaurant chains are nonvegetarian, so they can attract more customers, instead of appealing only to a selective group. Likewise, how many of the people you know eat meat versus the people who don’t?
Meat makes up a huge part of a diet and if most of us go without it, our main source of protein would be lost. It is an integral component of each meal we consume despite the expansive array of foods available.
However, there is a downside to eating meat. For centuries, we’ve been slaughtering animals mercilessly for our selfish desires, making our lives a priority over theirs. What makes us more important than them? They should live a full life just like us instead of a higher being controlling what they should do.
Recently, scientists have trying to find a solution to this issue, where we can reduce the number of animals we kill while simultaneously still being able to eat cooked meat guilt-free. After countless trials, they created “clean meat” where animals’ cells are cultured to be grown to be a part of an animal, such as chicken breast or sausage. Animals aren’t even harmed in the process; scientists acquire the cells externally from the animals, such as feathers or skin. If this implemented worldwide, it will be a revolutionary step in the food industry.
Since animals aren’t being killed and cooked for clean meat, is clean meat considered vegetarian? If so, is it still ethical to eat it? This is an ethical dilemma this paper will delve into, explaining the details how clean meat is made and if vegetarians should eat it.
Lede 2
It’s 2034. You enter an elegant, 4-star restaurant where it offers a variety of courses on the menu. You find your seat, open the menu and read the descriptions to see if you would like that tonight. You think about your eating preferences, and quickly realize you’re vegetarian. You realize you’re craving steak, and you consider ordering it.
Wait, what?
How will you be able to eat meat even though you’re vegetarian?
Recently, scientists have been conducting research where we can reduce the number of animals we kill while simultaneously still being able to eat cooked meat guilt-free. After countless trials, they created “clean meat” where animals’ cells are cultured to be grown to be a part of an animal, such as chicken breast or sausage. Animals aren’t even harmed in the process; scientists acquire the cells externally from the animals, such as feathers or skin. If this implemented worldwide, it will be a revolutionary step in the food industry.
Since animals aren’t being killed and cooked for clean meat, is clean meat considered vegetarian? If so, is it still ethical to eat it? This is an ethical dilemma this paper will delve into, explaining the details how clean meat is made and if vegetarians should eat it. It’s a decision you will also be making in the future, considering this will be affecting everyone due to their eating preferences. Not only does this affect vegetarians, but meat-eater will be affected as well because they might want to decrease their intake of meat to be environmentally friendly.


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