I attempt to eat as little/no meat as I can because the whole process is pretty narly. Lab meat is something I'd probably eat on the rare occasion I do. I simply feel better no eating as much meat as everyone else does.
I'm not interested in eating any factory grown meat (there are enough chemicals and artificial ingredients in food as it is), but I am willing to cut back, and advice others to do so as well. If not for the planet, do it for your personal health.
This is sorely uninformed, and disappoints me. Look up sustainable agriculture and Joel Salatin. For health, look up whole9life, the paleo movement, and the Weston A. Price foundation. Part of the problem with western health is our culture has become so out of touch with our evolution as a species and nature itself. If you want to do your body and mother earth a favor, spend a few hours googling the names and organizations above.
I don't think that you can take meat out of the equation but that like all things use it in moderation. I personally only eat chicken as a meat, and I usually go about 2-3 between eating chicken. It's better for the environment and i personally can't stand pork or beef. I think as a society we should encourage eating good beef (not burgers) as a weekend special occasion deal.
I am a vegetarian, and there are plenty of replacements for meat. There are brands that make mock meat products from the fungus Fusarium venenatum. Its also not that bad. :p Its not really meat, but it tastes almost the exact same, and also apparently lower in fat than meats.
You might be interested in an article about a proposed plan to remove chickens brains and force feed them in cages until they are big enough to eat. ...
Lab grow meat and you will no longer need TONS of livestock. Convert grazing fields to crops and VOILA! Much less emissions from livestock, specific plots in huge amounts can even be grown for the sole purpose of biofuels, which will also enable us to cut down on fossil fuels at the same time!
Not that I don't know what he's getting at though. The amount of blatant corruption in any and all different sectors of the government is just ridiculous. I also read an article about the lab grown meat. To me it sounds like this breakthrough could almost solve our world hunger problem in just a few steps.
I fully support lab-grown meat. We could add things to make it tastier and healthier than natural meat, and once we perfect the process (decades from now, I'm sure) it will probably be cheaper.
Plus, we could stop herding cattle and get to work breeding puppy sized elephants. Science makes the world a better place yet again! <3
If we have lab-grown meat, that means that I could get a bacon-growing license. And then when I had my license, I would stay up in my room every morning growing bacon. And because bacon takes a while to grow, I would spend a lot of time thinking deep thoughts (and eating bacon for breakfast) in my room. And while I was up there thinking deep thoughts, the bacon would cause me to know the answers to all the world's questions, and I would know how to fix everything.
I have been a vegetarian for 10 years and would LOVE the idea of chicken that wasn't carved off a sentient being, because then I could eat it without feeling hugely guilty. And I miss chicken.
I would go vegetarian but I'd rather support my second cousin, who is both wonderful and a farmer. I should add that I've spent a fair amount of time during summers at the farm, which also has a butchers, and have seen the whole meat making process. It's not pleasant, but it made me aware of two things - 1) I'm fine with eating meat providing it's been sourced in the best way possible (none of that dodgy caged animal stuff) and 2) Raw venison is the worst smell ever and I will never eat it.
ok i don't want to say tht people who eat meat are bad because tht wuld get a lot of people angry, but i feel like they are sometimes because even if they aren't directly killing the animals(and can make the argument that its already dead so y not eat it?), they are funding the people who do kill these poor creatures and yes, i do see that as murder. Also most people who eat meat wouldn't be prepared to kill an animal him/herself so that makes them cowards for having other people kill for them.
I find nothing gross in the idea of lab grown meat(it sounds delishius), however I allso don't have a problem with switching meat production primarily to insects(more eficient the cow/ect plus tasty is handled right).
Actually, the meat industry is quite humane. The last thing they want is for the animals to suffer because suffering is stress, and stress makes it so that the animal has poorer meat quality.
No, I don't think people are bad because we eat meat. Frankly, we're omnivores, and part of an omnivore's diet is meat. I can understand your point about how we should eat less meat, but eating meat isn't bad.
@ThisBlueScarf I don't think he is arguing that the meat industry is inhumane. If you watch the other video he mentioned, he says that the problem is with how much meat people eat because it takes way more food to raise an animal for slaughter than the food you actually get out of that animal. He explains it way better than I do, though :)
In response to the good vs bad vs meat argument, personally, I think it's all about balance, particularly between peace and happiness. You eat meat because on some level it makes you happy. But those who don't eat meat are contributing to reducing the amount of meat produced/ greenhouse gas emitted/ food that can be distributed. This can help bring peace to the world on a larger scale. To me, good and bad are irreverent if people can achieve this balance, both globally and individually.
Seriously, I'm in Britain and I've loved the NErdfighter group so much I've become one and have gone onto YouTube. So if you got a spare minute or two come on over and take a watch?
Ok I've been looking all over the place for the *other* video where Hank is in front of a flooding river. He even throws a rock into it, but because of the camera angle, we hardly see it. Can't find it. Help?!
Hitler wanted to be a good person, he just thought that Jews and homosexuals and gypsies and communists weren't humans and that he could help humanity by getting rid of them. So I don't think good will is enough.
Yeah I just eat meat when people give it to me. Usually i get my protein from tuna and lentils and eggs. I know about all the bad stuff in tuna fishing, I'm not a good person.
building where we'll kill you, skin you, chop you up into little pieces, then sell your body parts in stores where people will buy them, cook them, then consume them. OR Fine, we won't kill you. We'll release you into the wild where it's impossible for you to survive because we've warped you so much you need us to milk you or you'll die and you don't remember how to find your own food or mate without us shoving sperm inside you.
Again, I'm a vegetarian and I wish that there was a way for the
in order to survive. So although the thought of "lab grown meat" makes me go like ":DDDDDDDDDD", I also have to wonder what's going to happen to the animals? The sad fact is that we've created a world where the only two options for the animals that we torture every day are: die or die. Stay with us, we'll take care of you for a few years, pump you full of antibiotics you don't need, breed you like crazy, keep you in small boxes that you can't move around in at all, and then take you to a
I'm a vegetarian, have been for three years (since I was allowed to start making decisions on my own). And I'm a vegetarian because I can't stand the thought of killing an animal just eat them (not for some bizarro health reason or a vague sense of discipline or something). And although I hate that so many animals die every day to feed our faces...I also realise that we've pretty much screwed these animals over completely. They can't survive on their own anymore,they need us to take care of them
Lab-grown meat is like xenotransplantation (animal organs for human organ transplants) to me. I'll need an aortic transplant someday, so I was thinking deeply on the subject. I think it's genius and would save countless lives, but I this weird, I-just-ate-a-bug face pops up when I think of a pig's aorta in my chest. So I think it's just a natural response to be weirded out, but we need to (I realize it's a poor metaphor) swallow the bug and move on, because it'll make the world a better place.
The thing about meat grown in a lab is that biological organisms are really complex, so it would be difficult to match the kinds of processes that occur in a living animal. Not that we shouldn't try. As for insects, you'd have to figure out a way to harvest them efficiently and you'd have to find a way to successfully market it to people.
A good alternative to meat is, surprise, surprise, bugs/insects. Of course, you need to know which ones are edible, but pound for pound they have more protein, they're more efficient to produce, and honestly, we humans will never stop killing things for our own personal gain. That's the circle of life. I haven't started eating insects yet, but I wanted to throw that out there.
I stopped eating meat that isn't organic about 8 months ago, and I don't regret it at all. Now when I eat the organic pig my family bought, it doesn't even taste that good. I don't feel like I"m missing anything.
Thats actually sort of how I became a vegetarian. My friend and I, in 8th grade, swore not to eat meat more than (x) amount of times per week.... I think it was 5 so that we could have one meat item almost every day. We went home for Thanksgiving break, she had started eating meat full-time again, and I stopped eating it completely. As a former (and present) bacon-lover, I can successfully say that I have been stronger than bacon for over 5 years now. :)
It is quite amazing how the human mind actually works. The fact that we are very self-destructive astounds me. And yet we are the only species (from what we know) that does this, except deer, of which love to run into cars for some reason. Never heard of your dog torturing the neighbors cat, have you? Nope, because torture is our job, along with many other strange things I could name.
In my house we do a 'No Meat Mondays' and Tuesdays and it isn't difficult at all. There are many alternatives instead of actual meat. Although, I wouldn't be able to become a vegetarian, I do think everyone should try to make a small effort to decrease how much meat thy eat (unless they eat none or a small amount already.)
Eating meat is not bad. The main problem with the meat industry is that we eat too much meat. Meat in fair quantity is fair. But we eat more meat now than we did 50 years ago. Meat is the main part of a meal. The center. Veg is the side. It's the mentality that people NEED meat with their meal to make it a proper meal. Basicaly we've got to learn to think about it in a diffrent way.
eating meat isn't that bad, i don't think. and i think it's a basic human instinct to eat meat (what did early man-like persons/species survive on? meat and marrow, right.). and i also think that people are intrinsically good. ergo, while the production of meat and the support thereof may be bad, eating meat by itself is not.
also, lab-grown meat doesn't sound horrible at all. i would eat it.
I like the idea of lab-grown meat. I'm a vegetarian because i think killing animals whilst we have alternatives is wrong, but i do still really like meat, especially beef and i've kinda had a craving for bacon lately, which i obviously haven't been able to satisfy. Growing meat in a lab is just getting atoms and rearranging them to form something that we can consume, because that's all we really are - atoms.
Lab Grown meat actually sounds pretty good. The only thing that could be wrong with it is getting the different parts of an animal that we are used to, but they've already made bacon from non pigs look like bacon so I'm not really worried about that. It sounds really awesome.
I had the opportunity back in October to attend a genetics seminar taught by Dr. Sam Rhine where he discussed the meat labs and their immense potential for success. They basically employ the same astounding technology that can be used to genetically engineer stem cells from specialized cells and then use said cells to grow transplant organs for people who are ill or severely injured. I can understand how some people can find it gross but I for one am not only in awe but also find it heartening
I just ran into your videos and I really like your logic. From now on when my friends ask why I'm veg I'll send them this link or the other video of you noming on a veg corndog. Thank you for making my day.
I think the idea of lab grown meat is brilliant! It may not taste the same as regular meat but I don't understand why it's so disgusting sounding to people. If anything it made my eye brows perk with surprise and my heart was filled with some level of hope.
Heck it could even taste better than the meat we buy now. In any case it saves a whole bunch of animals from being slaughtered. And health wise could even be better for one. Ah the possibilities both in positive and negative points.
@WolvenClawPeacemaker What about if it was made out of deceased humans? We have constant access to a fresh supply, we always know exactly what killed them anyway because people always want to know, so we would know if they had some disease that would reduce the quality of the meat, and we wouldn't have to worry about finding a place to bury people or scatter their ashes etc.
@rabbitwho I think that in theory that works wonderfully however in practice (uh oh, here we go...) the physcological effects of eating the dead may not be worth it. Also a morally driven species (ha!) I doubt we would ever permit it to happen. Then again what an ironically fitting end to someone who say is of large build to then later be eaten when they are deceased.
@WolvenClawPeacemaker 1. We already eat dead things and we don't worry about it, people's bodies are just going to waste in the mean time. 2. We already allow awful things to happen in our world and even benefit from it.
@rabbitwho True although (unless it's Hollywood mumbo-jumbo) eating human flesh can cause psychological issues whether we know we're eating it or not. Having said that though there have been cases of people eating the dead to survive who seem fine now and we have had canibal tribes.
That is very true sadly...but that's when it gets complicated.
@rosalena46 I'm not so sure I really want to in all honesty. But I have seen how at least one factory processes horse meat. Needless to say you're right that there are some things that can never be unseen.
I'm a meat eater, sure. But I also believe in being humane and responsible with what resources we have.
you could be a polo vegetarian and just eat white meats and cut out all the red meats from your diet....
or vice versa but red meat has more fat/grease in it so white meat would be better way to go. there are lots of other options out there. haha but ill never eat red meat again. im proud of myself :)
It's difficult being a vegetarian because if you don't plan your diet correctly you'll most likely end up with some nutrient deficiencies. What I can do and am doing, is reducing my meat intake. So instead of eating it every night or for lunch, its now 4-5 times a week. Thats my part.
I don't care about the suffering of animals for food consumption at all. Have you seen hunting? A lot of hunters just kill animals for fun, not for eating. I don't agree with hunting for fun and not eating, but I love meat and will not give it up. If they make laboratory meat that doesn't taste any or much different and costs less or equal to meat nowadays. Yes, I will eat that just fine.
South Dakota does not have fresh fruits or veg
One of the few episodes of Vlogbrothers that I did not enjoy.
So then I told her that she was DISGUSTING. Yes, there is nothing worse then the way they kill animals so that we may insert them in a sandwich and eat them. And yet, my friend is an animal lover. It just doesn't make sense. What is the difference between your pet dog, and a cow. What if your dog tasted good? Would you eat him? What if you tasted good? Would you eat yourself?
I asked my best friend the other day if she knew that they scrape the inside of a cow's stomach and put it in some cheeses, and she said that she's already eaten baby cows, in fact she's already eaten a baby cow's tongue. I asked her is she's eaten a red candy apple, then asked her if she's eaten bugs. She said yes to the first question and that means the second statement is also true. I asked her how she felt, she said she doesn't care as long as it tastes good. (...)
That is the precise reason I am a pescetarian. But it's difficult explaining that it's not because I think animals are too cute to eat. NO. Lab grown meat sounds great, though! That's totally less gross than eating another sentient being's flesh.
I like the fact that you made two videos about how eating as much meat as most people do is bad from the same place =)
1.I don't think you're a bad person if you eat meat, but I still don't think we should eat meat, primarily because I don't think humans should have the right to take away animals' lives.
2. To me the idea sounds gross because we'd be eating something artificial (only because I'm not used to that). It's still not as gross as the way people get their meat at the moment.
(last part, i promise) more caution and general consideration used when the issue arises, and that medicating shouldn't be the first and quickest response to make something undesired go away.
so i worry about the unknown or not-yet-fully-understood ramifications of 'fake' meat becoming a staple food, despite how much better for the environment it may be
(part the 3rd) ulcerous colitis (did i say that right? also, this is ridiculously long, rambley and scattered.. sorry!) a medication which has been known to kill people from it's side effects. there were comments to that video from many other people with similar stories, although the conditions and medications varied.
basically, yes, i am aware meds are many times necessary, but i think unknown or not fully understood side effects are a definite concern. because of that i think there should be
(part 2) ...true. i just think that we're so used to thinking that medicines are the last answer. it's easier to try and medicate away symptoms than take the time and effort, or take the time to go through discomfort, to find and deal with causes. we appreciate quick-fixes... and a lot of times the hidden side effects aren't worth it at all.. for instance, from another hank video from way back in the archives, he was severely ill from the side effects of a medicine he had to take for his... bah-
@BardocksSynphony well, that's an excellent point. i'm one of those people that needs to take medicine every day, and i absolutely hate it (that might be one of the contributions to the aversion to ingesting man-made/tinkered with stuff). but medicines, especially with how much of a big-business pharmaceuticals are in the US, usually come with a lot of side effects. in serious cases, the need for the meds outweighs the side effects, but i think that this isn't always, or even most of the time..
What if the EBO never happened because it turned out that by making the EBO the creators of the EBO were committing evil (messing with time/fate or something else like that) and therefore they were taken as babies and all the other evil babies lived to become who they were and the only people in the EBO are the EBO creators? Does this make any sense?
I guess it's better for meat to be produced in a lab, but I think the gross-out factor is that it wasn't born, it wasn't alive. I know that THAT sounds odd too but it's hardwired in me and probably all other humans.
The fact that you are advocating for vegetarianism, and thus an end to the consistent & merciless torture and murder of beings that we rationalize with the flimsy excuse that somehow our tastes matter more than their lives, makes me extremely happy. So often we have this "might makes right" mentality and refuse to believe that our views are completely inconsistent and cruel. Just, you've made my day. Thank you so much! ^_^
We're already eating the charred muscle and fat of a dead creature... not to mention its unfertilized embryos and the breast excretions intended for its young (which by the way we find gross from humans) etc... Why not eat the lab meat, a lot of things we do are really gross if you think about them, it would become normal in like a year.
I am trying the vegetarian-for-a-month challenge in october ... I don't plan on being a vegetarian, but I do understand that if everyone ate LESS meat, we would be much better off ecologically and our health would improve ... though I do wonder about the economics of it all. If the Department of Agriculture thrives on meat-eating, then what would it do to the American economy if we tanked the DoA? I am not an economist ... sincerely asking a question here.
I've been vegetarian for a year and a half. I have more energy, I lost weight, I haven't gotten sick at all, and I'm neutralizing my carbon footprint. Watch food Inc, or read eating animals by jonathon safran-foer or the kind diet by Alicia silverstone and you'll never eat meat again. Also visit meat.org :)
I'm a little bit late in commenting on this video, but I've only recently joined Nerdfighters (about 33 hours ago approximately) and have been working my way backwards through the videos. I am actually now almost at December but I remembered that I wanted to leave a comment for this video. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I love that you're encouraging people to go vegetarian for a month! I'm a vegetarian and I'm always looking for new reasons to feel good about not eating meat. Thanks! :)
No, no i do not think that lab grown meat sounds disgusting. I mean there are so many possibilities of what can happen in a slaughter house compared to a laboratory. I mean...has anyone seen or knows why E Coli happens? Check it out it is disgusting! But also in labs we can enhance the yummyness of the meat. Good idea Hank!
Lab grown meat isn't disgusting, it's meat. If we can find a way to make delicious meat without slaughtering hundreds of millions of poor helpless animals each year, the world will be a bit of a better place, and maybe less people will end up being transported to the evil baby orphanage.
@homestareddsworldman Yes, but the idea of a slab of meat growing by itself in a lab is a little unnerving, don't you think? I'm not saying its not a good idea, after all if we can grow meat, why not a heart or a kidney or liver for organ transplants, but the image of a beating heart on a stainless steel table... little bit freaky, no?
@lemonice2700 Well, here's an analogy for you. 2 card companies make the same standard deck of cards. 1 company uses regular paper on their cards, from regular trees. The other company uses a type of paper created from a more efficient lab grown plant. Does that make the second card company's cards undesirable? I'd still use them, especially if they were cheaper. I'd say, try it. If it tastes as good as regular meat and it is edible and efficient. Then I don't see a problem with it.
I am so glad to see that I'm not the only one in on this. When I tell people "you don't need meat to be healthy" they respond with "oh well I ned protienes and so and so and such and such...." Which isn't true. I have been a vegetarian for about two years, and I started by gradually cutting certain things out of my diet. First it was red meat, then poultry, then gelatin, then fish, now yogurt, and once I'm on my own it will be dairy (hopefully) Furthermore... I don't know how to answer your ? :c
I love you for this video. Especially pointing out that our food pyramid guidelines are decided by the people who make money off of us eating what they tell us is to eat. It isn't limited to meat, either...dairy is the same way. It's illogical and not actually good for you, but people think they need to have it three times a day because the people selling it say so, not scientists who understand human physiology. I'd like to see you do a video on diary, actually. I think it's worse than meat.
How about, instead of going completely vegetarian for 1 month, try only eating meat that has been raised on a small, humane, preferably local farm? I am a vegetarian, but I also believe that some people really need meat to stay healthy. As long as the animal had a good, relatively long life, I don't have a problem with you eating it. It's only when people insist on buying their meat from brands like Tyson, which basically torture the animals for a few months before they are turned into food,
It's fascinating to me how much the concept of "indulgence" has changed, historically. It used to be, and still is in many places, that meat was a eaten only for feasts, or special occasions, because you needed whatever ELSE that animal provided more than you needed the meat. Wool, milk, eggs, natural fertilizer, weed control, garbage disposal, transportation, etc., were more important than having steak for dinner. We don't understand that anymore. Meat is not bad, but constant meat is not good.
how about this. were not good or bad. were humans. we kill each other we rape the land, we label each other with useless labels ect ect. were all human pieces of shit. end of story.
@IIIArrow711 You contradict yourself. First, you say humans are not bad, but then you end with humans are shit. Is that not bad? It's definitly not neutral.
@lemonice2700 lol well i personally think humans in general are pieces of shit. But just because i think humans are "bad" that does not make humans Objectively bad. the truth is humans are not Bad or Good regardless of prior beliefs like my own or what others have to say, we simply are what we are and that is humans. we humans are humans. :)
@IIIArrow711 Certainly so, humans are humans. But let us go back to your opinion of humans being bad, since that is the more interesting question. Why do you believe humans are "bad". Bad for whom? And what do you mean by bad, rather than good?
@IIIArrow711 Certainly so, humans are humans. But let us go back to your opinion of humans being bad, since that is the more interesting question. Why do you believe humans are "bad". Bad for whom? And what do you mean by bad, rather than good?
@lemonice2700 well i was going to talk about biased media, corrupt politics and just watching terrible videos of atheist being burned at the stake, suspected thieves brutally murdered so on and so on. But the main reason why i think like we are "bad" is because we humans have not yet learned to live life without conflict, and conflict in my opinion is usually easily avoidable and just terrible in of its self, yet we dont even realize that we thrive in conflict and refuse to do anything about it.
@lemonice2700 Well i was going to talk about biased media, corrupt politics, and just watching videos of atheist literally being burned alive, thieves being brutally tortured so on and so on. But the main reason why i think humans are"bad" is because we dont know how to live in a world without conflict. All we truly know how to do is fight with each other and never find any middle ground. Yet We as a species may not know it but we thrive on conflict, its what our whole world is based around.
@lemonice2700 Well i was going to talk about biased media, corrupt politics, and just watching videos of atheist literally being burned alive, thieves being brutally tortured so on and so on. But the main reason why i think humans are"bad" is because we dont know how to live in a world without conflict. All we truly know how to do is fight with each other and never find any middle ground. Yet We as a species may not know it but we thrive on conflict, its what our whole world is based around.
I have nothing against vegitarians. I actually think what they're doing is a really good thing, just I hate it when they try to force it into you and call you an evil person for eating meat and that you shouldn't have any rights as a human because you eat meat. I luv to eat meat, but I'm not an evil psycho for that, I'm not a animal killing neanderthal that has no respect for anything because I enjoy meat.
and I had a friend who tried to change the whole school's lunch menu just so it could benifit her vegitarian needs, even though everyone else in the whole damn school wasn't a vegitarian, and she got really pissed when they didn't. Again, I have nothing against vegitarians, just don't try to force it into us. Thanks.
i know scientific tinkering has led to some great things, but when it comes to what we put on or in our bodies, i get nervous... i know we don't know everything about what we create, and there might be some unforeseen effects that turn up later on that could be worse... kind of like the unforeseen potential ramifications of the Evil Baby Orphanage.
Living in the Evil Baby Orphanage actually sounds kind of fun...I mean, it's all about training people to be better people, right? I mean, sure it's an orphanage, but it seems like it would become a great community of people trying to....do good....in the world......nerdfightaria? The Evil Baby Orphanage must reside in Nerdfightaria then, and supply us with nerdfighters!
Also, meat produced in laboratories is only a good idea if the name of the company is not Aperture....
I heard that there are some Japanese scientists making meat out of excrement. That's gross. Also, eating Kosher meat is a bit of a solution to the whole suffering animals thing. I mean, they obviously still kill the animal, but Kosher law stipulates a certain way of slaughter that is quicker and supposedly less painful. This is what people tell me anyway.
As a vegetarian, I've noticed that I pay more attention to making healthy food decisions in general. If I have to look at a menu and say "Is there meat in this?" I may as well consider, "Is this good for me? Am I hungry enough to eat all of this?" It's kept me conscious of my decisions, and makes me proud to take up little less of the resources used to make meat.
(Also, please note that I was always someone who said "I could never be vegetarian". I am now going on three years.)
But... meat is SO good.
USMC4Jesus 13 hours ago
I attempt to eat as little/no meat as I can because the whole process is pretty narly. Lab meat is something I'd probably eat on the rare occasion I do. I simply feel better no eating as much meat as everyone else does.
RandomGurl27Q 1 day ago
You published this on my boyfriend's 14th birthday!!! Sorry...just noticed that. We're in beautiful nerdfighterlike <3
dftbachick1929 2 days ago
I'm not interested in eating any factory grown meat (there are enough chemicals and artificial ingredients in food as it is), but I am willing to cut back, and advice others to do so as well. If not for the planet, do it for your personal health.
ashleighmichellexoxo 2 days ago 2
This is sorely uninformed, and disappoints me. Look up sustainable agriculture and Joel Salatin. For health, look up whole9life, the paleo movement, and the Weston A. Price foundation. Part of the problem with western health is our culture has become so out of touch with our evolution as a species and nature itself. If you want to do your body and mother earth a favor, spend a few hours googling the names and organizations above.
troubledwatersofmind 3 days ago
screw that, its my birthday and i want as many dead animals cooked and on my plate as possible
McTaminus 3 days ago
I am always a vegetarian. I bet if you tried (even part time) you would not find it so hard.
krigs0910 5 days ago
as it is the end of this month, you have persuaded me to become a vegetarian for the upcoming month.
countrygirl41296 6 days ago 6
@countrygirl41296 I agree.
IForgetYourName 4 days ago
I don't think that you can take meat out of the equation but that like all things use it in moderation. I personally only eat chicken as a meat, and I usually go about 2-3 between eating chicken. It's better for the environment and i personally can't stand pork or beef. I think as a society we should encourage eating good beef (not burgers) as a weekend special occasion deal.
TheSage555 6 days ago
I am a vegetarian, and there are plenty of replacements for meat. There are brands that make mock meat products from the fungus Fusarium venenatum. Its also not that bad. :p Its not really meat, but it tastes almost the exact same, and also apparently lower in fat than meats.
MsMousegirl 6 days ago
it's not that lab grown meat is gross it's that it opens up an ethical wormhole that we may not be ready to deal with as a society
TheOnlySMAWJ 1 week ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Factory meat? Can you say Soilent Green?
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You might be interested in an article about a proposed plan to remove chickens brains and force feed them in cages until they are big enough to eat. ...
Americanbadashh 1 week ago
Lab grow meat and you will no longer need TONS of livestock. Convert grazing fields to crops and VOILA! Much less emissions from livestock, specific plots in huge amounts can even be grown for the sole purpose of biofuels, which will also enable us to cut down on fossil fuels at the same time!
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Nothing is objectively good or bad, Hank.
Not that I don't know what he's getting at though. The amount of blatant corruption in any and all different sectors of the government is just ridiculous. I also read an article about the lab grown meat. To me it sounds like this breakthrough could almost solve our world hunger problem in just a few steps.
Shortstuffjo 1 week ago in playlist Uploaded videos
If lab-grown meat would be less harmful than eating "real" meat with all the terrible chemicals, I would certainly eat that instead.
ScathachWarrior 1 week ago
Dude. NOTHING is stronger than bacon.
onestrangequark 1 week ago
I fully support lab-grown meat. We could add things to make it tastier and healthier than natural meat, and once we perfect the process (decades from now, I'm sure) it will probably be cheaper.
Plus, we could stop herding cattle and get to work breeding puppy sized elephants. Science makes the world a better place yet again! <3
keeganm139 1 week ago
If we have lab-grown meat, that means that I could get a bacon-growing license. And then when I had my license, I would stay up in my room every morning growing bacon. And because bacon takes a while to grow, I would spend a lot of time thinking deep thoughts (and eating bacon for breakfast) in my room. And while I was up there thinking deep thoughts, the bacon would cause me to know the answers to all the world's questions, and I would know how to fix everything.
Lab-grown meat FTW!!!
thatwhichisgiven 1 week ago
I just don't like the taste of red meat but i LOVE chicken
MissNikkiNeko 1 week ago
The manga "Bio Meat" is my anti-lab-produced-meat.
DoctorByName 1 week ago in playlist Uploaded videos
I have been a vegetarian for 10 years and would LOVE the idea of chicken that wasn't carved off a sentient being, because then I could eat it without feeling hugely guilty. And I miss chicken.
AngelFreakSH 2 weeks ago
i went vegetarian after this... i still am
lily24anne 2 weeks ago
I would go vegetarian but I'd rather support my second cousin, who is both wonderful and a farmer. I should add that I've spent a fair amount of time during summers at the farm, which also has a butchers, and have seen the whole meat making process. It's not pleasant, but it made me aware of two things - 1) I'm fine with eating meat providing it's been sourced in the best way possible (none of that dodgy caged animal stuff) and 2) Raw venison is the worst smell ever and I will never eat it.
roxyqueen2 2 weeks ago
is fish not counted as meat? if that is, I failed within half a day.
19775021 2 weeks ago
ok i don't want to say tht people who eat meat are bad because tht wuld get a lot of people angry, but i feel like they are sometimes because even if they aren't directly killing the animals(and can make the argument that its already dead so y not eat it?), they are funding the people who do kill these poor creatures and yes, i do see that as murder. Also most people who eat meat wouldn't be prepared to kill an animal him/herself so that makes them cowards for having other people kill for them.
larvye 2 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
ps: i am a vegetarian and "i am stronger than bacon"-there might be something wrong w/ me but it's really not tht hard
larvye 2 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
you are not stronger then bacon...
no1 is stronger then bacon
slicktrix540 2 weeks ago
I try to eat local fish more, Has less of the issues of meat, and is tastier. However it can be pricy.
thing2liv 2 weeks ago
I don't think it's wrong to eat meat maybe there are better ways to produce it but everything has it's place
spartanite67 2 weeks ago
I would go vegetarian, but I'm in school. And I'd bet they find some way of getting meat in the freaking rice, it's NUTS!
yes, I live in Hawaii, so we get rice as part of our school lunches. cheaper 4 the DOE that way.
starsplash922 3 weeks ago
Lab grown meat sounds fine but I'm not sure how it would be more efficient. Hunting is the best way to get meat at the moment, sorry hippies.
MrJivePirate 3 weeks ago
My friend once said "I don't HAVE good intent, I AM good in tent!" This video reminded me...
19sexybexy94 3 weeks ago
I find nothing gross in the idea of lab grown meat(it sounds delishius), however I allso don't have a problem with switching meat production primarily to insects(more eficient the cow/ect plus tasty is handled right).
NeilSonOfNorbert 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
Actually, the meat industry is quite humane. The last thing they want is for the animals to suffer because suffering is stress, and stress makes it so that the animal has poorer meat quality.
No, I don't think people are bad because we eat meat. Frankly, we're omnivores, and part of an omnivore's diet is meat. I can understand your point about how we should eat less meat, but eating meat isn't bad.
Lab-grown meat doesn't sound bad at all.
ThisBlueScarf 1 month ago
@ThisBlueScarf I don't think he is arguing that the meat industry is inhumane. If you watch the other video he mentioned, he says that the problem is with how much meat people eat because it takes way more food to raise an animal for slaughter than the food you actually get out of that animal. He explains it way better than I do, though :)
HungryLionCAT 3 weeks ago in playlist Weitere Videos von vlogbrothers
I've been a lunchaerian for the last 7 years mmmm peanut butter
lolzkitty101 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
what if you are vegetarian?
wntw319 1 month ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
i'm allergic to fruits and vegetables... MEAT IS ALL I HAVE IN THIS WORLD
well, i just theres like... bread and nuts... but... ew
QuestionCuriosity 1 month ago
yes, there is something grosser than the way we currently eat food Hank; and that's how we used to eat food.
greenhairedfae 1 month ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
In response to the good vs bad vs meat argument, personally, I think it's all about balance, particularly between peace and happiness. You eat meat because on some level it makes you happy. But those who don't eat meat are contributing to reducing the amount of meat produced/ greenhouse gas emitted/ food that can be distributed. This can help bring peace to the world on a larger scale. To me, good and bad are irreverent if people can achieve this balance, both globally and individually.
madmanJSK 1 month ago
I LOVE NERDFIGHTERS!
Seriously, I'm in Britain and I've loved the NErdfighter group so much I've become one and have gone onto YouTube. So if you got a spare minute or two come on over and take a watch?
DFTBA John and Hank
AudioRecovered 1 month ago
3 years vegan :)
megusta535 1 month ago
Ok I've been looking all over the place for the *other* video where Hank is in front of a flooding river. He even throws a rock into it, but because of the camera angle, we hardly see it. Can't find it. Help?!
mortadelletube 1 month ago
Hitler wanted to be a good person, he just thought that Jews and homosexuals and gypsies and communists weren't humans and that he could help humanity by getting rid of them. So I don't think good will is enough.
Yeah I just eat meat when people give it to me. Usually i get my protein from tuna and lentils and eggs. I know about all the bad stuff in tuna fishing, I'm not a good person.
rabbitwho 1 month ago
The day I watched this video was the day I became a vegatarian. 8 monthes and counting. :)
sarahlouisehaycox 1 month ago
Also, I don't see why anyone would gross out over lab made meat. I dunno, maybe that's just cuz I've gotten used to fake meat over the years?
WhatsUpUrSphincter 1 month ago
senseless slaughter to completely end. But this world has made absolutely sure that there's no way for that to happen :/
WhatsUpUrSphincter 1 month ago
building where we'll kill you, skin you, chop you up into little pieces, then sell your body parts in stores where people will buy them, cook them, then consume them. OR Fine, we won't kill you. We'll release you into the wild where it's impossible for you to survive because we've warped you so much you need us to milk you or you'll die and you don't remember how to find your own food or mate without us shoving sperm inside you.
Again, I'm a vegetarian and I wish that there was a way for the
WhatsUpUrSphincter 1 month ago
in order to survive. So although the thought of "lab grown meat" makes me go like ":DDDDDDDDDD", I also have to wonder what's going to happen to the animals? The sad fact is that we've created a world where the only two options for the animals that we torture every day are: die or die. Stay with us, we'll take care of you for a few years, pump you full of antibiotics you don't need, breed you like crazy, keep you in small boxes that you can't move around in at all, and then take you to a
WhatsUpUrSphincter 1 month ago
I'm a vegetarian, have been for three years (since I was allowed to start making decisions on my own). And I'm a vegetarian because I can't stand the thought of killing an animal just eat them (not for some bizarro health reason or a vague sense of discipline or something). And although I hate that so many animals die every day to feed our faces...I also realise that we've pretty much screwed these animals over completely. They can't survive on their own anymore,they need us to take care of them
WhatsUpUrSphincter 1 month ago
Lab-grown meat is like xenotransplantation (animal organs for human organ transplants) to me. I'll need an aortic transplant someday, so I was thinking deeply on the subject. I think it's genius and would save countless lives, but I this weird, I-just-ate-a-bug face pops up when I think of a pig's aorta in my chest. So I think it's just a natural response to be weirded out, but we need to (I realize it's a poor metaphor) swallow the bug and move on, because it'll make the world a better place.
AngieDNalalal13 1 month ago
The thing about meat grown in a lab is that biological organisms are really complex, so it would be difficult to match the kinds of processes that occur in a living animal. Not that we shouldn't try. As for insects, you'd have to figure out a way to harvest them efficiently and you'd have to find a way to successfully market it to people.
Teeftlis 1 month ago
"I am stronger than bacon"
...which is why I'm wearing my Epic Meal Time Bacon Strips shirt right now...
TSalimMusic 1 month ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
nothing is stronger than bacon
noremacsirref 1 month ago
All this evil baby orphanage business reminds me too much of the teselecta from Doctor Who...
DreamfallenOne 1 month ago
A good alternative to meat is, surprise, surprise, bugs/insects. Of course, you need to know which ones are edible, but pound for pound they have more protein, they're more efficient to produce, and honestly, we humans will never stop killing things for our own personal gain. That's the circle of life. I haven't started eating insects yet, but I wanted to throw that out there.
ElectraChan 1 month ago
@ElectraChan i doubt that will ever happen. id rather go vegan than eat bugs
hotshot3434 1 month ago
i just ate bacon 5 minutes ago
filmproductiongeek 1 month ago
I stopped eating meat that isn't organic about 8 months ago, and I don't regret it at all. Now when I eat the organic pig my family bought, it doesn't even taste that good. I don't feel like I"m missing anything.
dynorawrgirl 1 month ago
Thats actually sort of how I became a vegetarian. My friend and I, in 8th grade, swore not to eat meat more than (x) amount of times per week.... I think it was 5 so that we could have one meat item almost every day. We went home for Thanksgiving break, she had started eating meat full-time again, and I stopped eating it completely. As a former (and present) bacon-lover, I can successfully say that I have been stronger than bacon for over 5 years now. :)
MeeaCaroline 1 month ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
Hooray for being vegetarian! I didn't even know all the economic implications until I got older.
Minano 1 month ago
" I am stronger than bacon" I don't like bacon very much (don't kill me) I like chicken nuggets
MrSpazzyunicorn 1 month ago 14
It is quite amazing how the human mind actually works. The fact that we are very self-destructive astounds me. And yet we are the only species (from what we know) that does this, except deer, of which love to run into cars for some reason. Never heard of your dog torturing the neighbors cat, have you? Nope, because torture is our job, along with many other strange things I could name.
ModernHolmes 1 month ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
I want to be vegan (to get the super powers) but I wasn't sent to vegan academy.
(Obscure Scott Pilgrim jokes?)
peerieweirdo 1 month ago
In my house we do a 'No Meat Mondays' and Tuesdays and it isn't difficult at all. There are many alternatives instead of actual meat. Although, I wouldn't be able to become a vegetarian, I do think everyone should try to make a small effort to decrease how much meat thy eat (unless they eat none or a small amount already.)
rachy0523 2 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
Eating meat is not bad. The main problem with the meat industry is that we eat too much meat. Meat in fair quantity is fair. But we eat more meat now than we did 50 years ago. Meat is the main part of a meal. The center. Veg is the side. It's the mentality that people NEED meat with their meal to make it a proper meal. Basicaly we've got to learn to think about it in a diffrent way.
CaptainDibbzy 2 months ago
eating meat isn't that bad, i don't think. and i think it's a basic human instinct to eat meat (what did early man-like persons/species survive on? meat and marrow, right.). and i also think that people are intrinsically good. ergo, while the production of meat and the support thereof may be bad, eating meat by itself is not.
also, lab-grown meat doesn't sound horrible at all. i would eat it.
aidanaustria11 2 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
Lab grown meat doesn't sound disgusting. Stem cells I take it? Or am I totally wrong?
CakeBeneathTheIcing 2 months ago
I like the idea of lab-grown meat. I'm a vegetarian because i think killing animals whilst we have alternatives is wrong, but i do still really like meat, especially beef and i've kinda had a craving for bacon lately, which i obviously haven't been able to satisfy. Growing meat in a lab is just getting atoms and rearranging them to form something that we can consume, because that's all we really are - atoms.
VegetarianRobotLass 2 months ago
Lab Grown meat actually sounds pretty good. The only thing that could be wrong with it is getting the different parts of an animal that we are used to, but they've already made bacon from non pigs look like bacon so I'm not really worried about that. It sounds really awesome.
FuzzCutieNerd 2 months ago
You're starting to remind me of Jeff Goldblum.
antiquecans69 2 months ago
that is all.
AlyReality 2 months ago
and you are too attractive to live
AlyReality 2 months ago
and I'm a death eater.
AlyReality 2 months ago
veganism FTW!!!
AlyReality 2 months ago
Today, I opted for a vegetarian meal at my work's Christmas lunch! Yay!
misskarinadelacruz 2 months ago
I love this video!!!
DODvlogs1 2 months ago
I had the opportunity back in October to attend a genetics seminar taught by Dr. Sam Rhine where he discussed the meat labs and their immense potential for success. They basically employ the same astounding technology that can be used to genetically engineer stem cells from specialized cells and then use said cells to grow transplant organs for people who are ill or severely injured. I can understand how some people can find it gross but I for one am not only in awe but also find it heartening
GracefulxXxcrimes 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
We can literally end world hunger with these advancements!
GracefulxXxcrimes 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
I just ran into your videos and I really like your logic. From now on when my friends ask why I'm veg I'll send them this link or the other video of you noming on a veg corndog. Thank you for making my day.
cyoachim10 2 months ago
I am a death eater
musicrulesmylife123 3 months ago
I think the idea of lab grown meat is brilliant! It may not taste the same as regular meat but I don't understand why it's so disgusting sounding to people. If anything it made my eye brows perk with surprise and my heart was filled with some level of hope.
Heck it could even taste better than the meat we buy now. In any case it saves a whole bunch of animals from being slaughtered. And health wise could even be better for one. Ah the possibilities both in positive and negative points.
WolvenClawPeacemaker 3 months ago 55
@WolvenClawPeacemaker What about if it was made out of deceased humans? We have constant access to a fresh supply, we always know exactly what killed them anyway because people always want to know, so we would know if they had some disease that would reduce the quality of the meat, and we wouldn't have to worry about finding a place to bury people or scatter their ashes etc.
rabbitwho 1 month ago
@rabbitwho I think that in theory that works wonderfully however in practice (uh oh, here we go...) the physcological effects of eating the dead may not be worth it. Also a morally driven species (ha!) I doubt we would ever permit it to happen. Then again what an ironically fitting end to someone who say is of large build to then later be eaten when they are deceased.
WolvenClawPeacemaker 1 month ago
@WolvenClawPeacemaker 1. We already eat dead things and we don't worry about it, people's bodies are just going to waste in the mean time. 2. We already allow awful things to happen in our world and even benefit from it.
rabbitwho 1 month ago
@rabbitwho True although (unless it's Hollywood mumbo-jumbo) eating human flesh can cause psychological issues whether we know we're eating it or not. Having said that though there have been cases of people eating the dead to survive who seem fine now and we have had canibal tribes.
That is very true sadly...but that's when it gets complicated.
WolvenClawPeacemaker 1 month ago
@WolvenClawPeacemaker Exactly, have you seen how McDonalds REALLY makes there chicken nuggets. There are some things you can never unsee.
rosalena46 3 weeks ago
@rosalena46 I'm not so sure I really want to in all honesty. But I have seen how at least one factory processes horse meat. Needless to say you're right that there are some things that can never be unseen.
I'm a meat eater, sure. But I also believe in being humane and responsible with what resources we have.
WolvenClawPeacemaker 2 weeks ago
you could be a polo vegetarian and just eat white meats and cut out all the red meats from your diet....
or vice versa but red meat has more fat/grease in it so white meat would be better way to go. there are lots of other options out there. haha but ill never eat red meat again. im proud of myself :)
ninjatops 3 months ago
That's interesting you say that the plate that is supposed to tell us what to eat was made by the department of agriculture,
because the food pyramid was made by the dairy industry to make us eat more dairy!
I wonder if we'll ever have a guide to food that isn't selling us something.
samaraisnt 3 months ago
intent isnt in the cretiria
hitlar meant well and i think we all agree that was very bad
thehumanfruitsalad 3 months ago
Sirius Black quote FTW!
mybffDyl 3 months ago
GoodPersonTEST com
TerryBBurton 4 months ago
It's difficult being a vegetarian because if you don't plan your diet correctly you'll most likely end up with some nutrient deficiencies. What I can do and am doing, is reducing my meat intake. So instead of eating it every night or for lunch, its now 4-5 times a week. Thats my part.
FadedWolfSpirit 4 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
Hank! You made me become a vegetarian!! Thank you ^_^
TheEvetscipELP 4 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
I don't care about the suffering of animals for food consumption at all. Have you seen hunting? A lot of hunters just kill animals for fun, not for eating. I don't agree with hunting for fun and not eating, but I love meat and will not give it up. If they make laboratory meat that doesn't taste any or much different and costs less or equal to meat nowadays. Yes, I will eat that just fine.
South Dakota does not have fresh fruits or veg
One of the few episodes of Vlogbrothers that I did not enjoy.
Dithiannim 4 months ago
So then I told her that she was DISGUSTING. Yes, there is nothing worse then the way they kill animals so that we may insert them in a sandwich and eat them. And yet, my friend is an animal lover. It just doesn't make sense. What is the difference between your pet dog, and a cow. What if your dog tasted good? Would you eat him? What if you tasted good? Would you eat yourself?
JessieBradleyMusic 4 months ago
I asked my best friend the other day if she knew that they scrape the inside of a cow's stomach and put it in some cheeses, and she said that she's already eaten baby cows, in fact she's already eaten a baby cow's tongue. I asked her is she's eaten a red candy apple, then asked her if she's eaten bugs. She said yes to the first question and that means the second statement is also true. I asked her how she felt, she said she doesn't care as long as it tastes good. (...)
JessieBradleyMusic 4 months ago
making meat in a lab?
I've read that book. It ends with a guy being carried away screaming "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!"
Tcr810XP 4 months ago
That is the precise reason I am a pescetarian. But it's difficult explaining that it's not because I think animals are too cute to eat. NO. Lab grown meat sounds great, though! That's totally less gross than eating another sentient being's flesh.
jofasis 4 months ago
Hank, you are the reason I'm a vegetarian. I tried doing this and stopped eating meat...
TheEvetscipELP 4 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
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"As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one" - Romans 3:10
adamjohnston85 4 months ago
this was posted on my birthday:D
heyyitsandreaa 4 months ago
Hank, I can't hear you. Speak up.
ProjectRedfoot 4 months ago
I've been a vegetarian for three years :)
OriginalPinkPenguin 5 months ago
Portal bots?! Fantastic! Whatever this random mix of images at the very end is, I like it.
jmwalker17 5 months ago
I like the fact that you made two videos about how eating as much meat as most people do is bad from the same place =)
1.I don't think you're a bad person if you eat meat, but I still don't think we should eat meat, primarily because I don't think humans should have the right to take away animals' lives.
2. To me the idea sounds gross because we'd be eating something artificial (only because I'm not used to that). It's still not as gross as the way people get their meat at the moment.
eretrece 5 months ago
It is highly amusing to watch 1:57 with captions. I strongly encourage doing it.
applejax26 5 months ago
(last part, i promise) more caution and general consideration used when the issue arises, and that medicating shouldn't be the first and quickest response to make something undesired go away.
so i worry about the unknown or not-yet-fully-understood ramifications of 'fake' meat becoming a staple food, despite how much better for the environment it may be
sorry that was so long.
carbonatedcheese 5 months ago
(part the 3rd) ulcerous colitis (did i say that right? also, this is ridiculously long, rambley and scattered.. sorry!) a medication which has been known to kill people from it's side effects. there were comments to that video from many other people with similar stories, although the conditions and medications varied.
basically, yes, i am aware meds are many times necessary, but i think unknown or not fully understood side effects are a definite concern. because of that i think there should be
carbonatedcheese 5 months ago
(part 2) ...true. i just think that we're so used to thinking that medicines are the last answer. it's easier to try and medicate away symptoms than take the time and effort, or take the time to go through discomfort, to find and deal with causes. we appreciate quick-fixes... and a lot of times the hidden side effects aren't worth it at all.. for instance, from another hank video from way back in the archives, he was severely ill from the side effects of a medicine he had to take for his... bah-
carbonatedcheese 5 months ago
@BardocksSynphony well, that's an excellent point. i'm one of those people that needs to take medicine every day, and i absolutely hate it (that might be one of the contributions to the aversion to ingesting man-made/tinkered with stuff). but medicines, especially with how much of a big-business pharmaceuticals are in the US, usually come with a lot of side effects. in serious cases, the need for the meds outweighs the side effects, but i think that this isn't always, or even most of the time..
carbonatedcheese 5 months ago
Vegan. Win!
IshikawaGoemon5 5 months ago
No, lab-grown meat is not disgusting. It sounds much cleaner, humane and more controllable than slaughterhouse meat.
TriscuitFan 5 months ago
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MrmanJuyke 5 months ago
What if the EBO never happened because it turned out that by making the EBO the creators of the EBO were committing evil (messing with time/fate or something else like that) and therefore they were taken as babies and all the other evil babies lived to become who they were and the only people in the EBO are the EBO creators? Does this make any sense?
Datelesswonders 5 months ago
I guess it's better for meat to be produced in a lab, but I think the gross-out factor is that it wasn't born, it wasn't alive. I know that THAT sounds odd too but it's hardwired in me and probably all other humans.
Datelesswonders 5 months ago
The fact that you are advocating for vegetarianism, and thus an end to the consistent & merciless torture and murder of beings that we rationalize with the flimsy excuse that somehow our tastes matter more than their lives, makes me extremely happy. So often we have this "might makes right" mentality and refuse to believe that our views are completely inconsistent and cruel. Just, you've made my day. Thank you so much! ^_^
LuneFromage 5 months ago 43
We're already eating the charred muscle and fat of a dead creature... not to mention its unfertilized embryos and the breast excretions intended for its young (which by the way we find gross from humans) etc... Why not eat the lab meat, a lot of things we do are really gross if you think about them, it would become normal in like a year.
wolverineblue18 5 months ago
I am trying the vegetarian-for-a-month challenge in october ... I don't plan on being a vegetarian, but I do understand that if everyone ate LESS meat, we would be much better off ecologically and our health would improve ... though I do wonder about the economics of it all. If the Department of Agriculture thrives on meat-eating, then what would it do to the American economy if we tanked the DoA? I am not an economist ... sincerely asking a question here.
TriscuitFan 5 months ago
i started being vegetarian after watching this video and i still am :)
hannah1111100 5 months ago in playlist Weitere Videos von vlogbrothers
I've been vegetarian for a year and a half. I have more energy, I lost weight, I haven't gotten sick at all, and I'm neutralizing my carbon footprint. Watch food Inc, or read eating animals by jonathon safran-foer or the kind diet by Alicia silverstone and you'll never eat meat again. Also visit meat.org :)
alygan11 5 months ago
I'm a little bit late in commenting on this video, but I've only recently joined Nerdfighters (about 33 hours ago approximately) and have been working my way backwards through the videos. I am actually now almost at December but I remembered that I wanted to leave a comment for this video. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I love that you're encouraging people to go vegetarian for a month! I'm a vegetarian and I'm always looking for new reasons to feel good about not eating meat. Thanks! :)
seriouslythisisjust 5 months ago
@seriouslythisisjust Welcome to NerdFightaria, STIF. :) DFTBA
sweetducky12 5 months ago
@sweetducky12 thanks :)
seriouslythisisjust 4 months ago
No, no i do not think that lab grown meat sounds disgusting. I mean there are so many possibilities of what can happen in a slaughter house compared to a laboratory. I mean...has anyone seen or knows why E Coli happens? Check it out it is disgusting! But also in labs we can enhance the yummyness of the meat. Good idea Hank!
vverewolfchick 5 months ago
As long as it tasted good I would switch to laboratory grown meat. :)
MomijiRocks 5 months ago
being vegetarian ain't even a thang! it's so easy it's not even funny.
lovefromeponine 5 months ago
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It's mean for us to eat animals, but when other animals eat other animals there's no problem?
PunkTapGirl 6 months ago
Lab grown meat isn't disgusting, it's meat. If we can find a way to make delicious meat without slaughtering hundreds of millions of poor helpless animals each year, the world will be a bit of a better place, and maybe less people will end up being transported to the evil baby orphanage.
homestareddsworldman 6 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
@homestareddsworldman Yes, but the idea of a slab of meat growing by itself in a lab is a little unnerving, don't you think? I'm not saying its not a good idea, after all if we can grow meat, why not a heart or a kidney or liver for organ transplants, but the image of a beating heart on a stainless steel table... little bit freaky, no?
lemonice2700 6 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
@lemonice2700 Well, here's an analogy for you. 2 card companies make the same standard deck of cards. 1 company uses regular paper on their cards, from regular trees. The other company uses a type of paper created from a more efficient lab grown plant. Does that make the second card company's cards undesirable? I'd still use them, especially if they were cheaper. I'd say, try it. If it tastes as good as regular meat and it is edible and efficient. Then I don't see a problem with it.
homestareddsworldman 5 months ago
Vegetarian Nerdfighters unite =D
TheEvetscipELP 6 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
I am so glad to see that I'm not the only one in on this. When I tell people "you don't need meat to be healthy" they respond with "oh well I ned protienes and so and so and such and such...." Which isn't true. I have been a vegetarian for about two years, and I started by gradually cutting certain things out of my diet. First it was red meat, then poultry, then gelatin, then fish, now yogurt, and once I'm on my own it will be dairy (hopefully) Furthermore... I don't know how to answer your ? :c
invisiblegirl48 6 months ago
I love you for this video. Especially pointing out that our food pyramid guidelines are decided by the people who make money off of us eating what they tell us is to eat. It isn't limited to meat, either...dairy is the same way. It's illogical and not actually good for you, but people think they need to have it three times a day because the people selling it say so, not scientists who understand human physiology. I'd like to see you do a video on diary, actually. I think it's worse than meat.
delitbrite 6 months ago
@delitbrite Why? I've never heard that dairy is bad for you. This is very intriguing.
lemonice2700 6 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
Vegetarians ftw.
luucciii123 6 months ago
that I have a problem. The meat may be a little more expensive from a local farm, but at least that animal didn't spend it's entire life suffering.
GeorgiaGrier28 6 months ago
How about, instead of going completely vegetarian for 1 month, try only eating meat that has been raised on a small, humane, preferably local farm? I am a vegetarian, but I also believe that some people really need meat to stay healthy. As long as the animal had a good, relatively long life, I don't have a problem with you eating it. It's only when people insist on buying their meat from brands like Tyson, which basically torture the animals for a few months before they are turned into food,
GeorgiaGrier28 6 months ago
It's fascinating to me how much the concept of "indulgence" has changed, historically. It used to be, and still is in many places, that meat was a eaten only for feasts, or special occasions, because you needed whatever ELSE that animal provided more than you needed the meat. Wool, milk, eggs, natural fertilizer, weed control, garbage disposal, transportation, etc., were more important than having steak for dinner. We don't understand that anymore. Meat is not bad, but constant meat is not good.
EmmaOnATangent 6 months ago
I am not stronger than bacon.
bunbunnie94 6 months ago
THANK YOU.
mermaid1430 6 months ago
how about this. were not good or bad. were humans. we kill each other we rape the land, we label each other with useless labels ect ect. were all human pieces of shit. end of story.
IIIArrow711 6 months ago
@IIIArrow711 You contradict yourself. First, you say humans are not bad, but then you end with humans are shit. Is that not bad? It's definitly not neutral.
lemonice2700 6 months ago
@lemonice2700 lol well i personally think humans in general are pieces of shit. But just because i think humans are "bad" that does not make humans Objectively bad. the truth is humans are not Bad or Good regardless of prior beliefs like my own or what others have to say, we simply are what we are and that is humans. we humans are humans. :)
IIIArrow711 5 months ago
@IIIArrow711 Certainly so, humans are humans. But let us go back to your opinion of humans being bad, since that is the more interesting question. Why do you believe humans are "bad". Bad for whom? And what do you mean by bad, rather than good?
lemonice2700 5 months ago
@IIIArrow711 Certainly so, humans are humans. But let us go back to your opinion of humans being bad, since that is the more interesting question. Why do you believe humans are "bad". Bad for whom? And what do you mean by bad, rather than good?
lemonice2700 5 months ago
@lemonice2700 well i was going to talk about biased media, corrupt politics and just watching terrible videos of atheist being burned at the stake, suspected thieves brutally murdered so on and so on. But the main reason why i think like we are "bad" is because we humans have not yet learned to live life without conflict, and conflict in my opinion is usually easily avoidable and just terrible in of its self, yet we dont even realize that we thrive in conflict and refuse to do anything about it.
IIIArrow711 5 months ago
@lemonice2700 Well i was going to talk about biased media, corrupt politics, and just watching videos of atheist literally being burned alive, thieves being brutally tortured so on and so on. But the main reason why i think humans are"bad" is because we dont know how to live in a world without conflict. All we truly know how to do is fight with each other and never find any middle ground. Yet We as a species may not know it but we thrive on conflict, its what our whole world is based around.
IIIArrow711 5 months ago
@lemonice2700 Well i was going to talk about biased media, corrupt politics, and just watching videos of atheist literally being burned alive, thieves being brutally tortured so on and so on. But the main reason why i think humans are"bad" is because we dont know how to live in a world without conflict. All we truly know how to do is fight with each other and never find any middle ground. Yet We as a species may not know it but we thrive on conflict, its what our whole world is based around.
IIIArrow711 5 months ago
I have nothing against vegitarians. I actually think what they're doing is a really good thing, just I hate it when they try to force it into you and call you an evil person for eating meat and that you shouldn't have any rights as a human because you eat meat. I luv to eat meat, but I'm not an evil psycho for that, I'm not a animal killing neanderthal that has no respect for anything because I enjoy meat.
TheHyperTheory 6 months ago
@TheHyperTheory
and I had a friend who tried to change the whole school's lunch menu just so it could benifit her vegitarian needs, even though everyone else in the whole damn school wasn't a vegitarian, and she got really pissed when they didn't. Again, I have nothing against vegitarians, just don't try to force it into us. Thanks.
TheHyperTheory 6 months ago
i know scientific tinkering has led to some great things, but when it comes to what we put on or in our bodies, i get nervous... i know we don't know everything about what we create, and there might be some unforeseen effects that turn up later on that could be worse... kind of like the unforeseen potential ramifications of the Evil Baby Orphanage.
carbonatedcheese 6 months ago
@carbonatedcheese what about medicine
BardocksSynphony 6 months ago
I have been vegetarian since the day this video was posted.
Thank you, vlogbrothers.
notsoninjakid 6 months ago
"I AM STRONGER THAN BACON!" that should be on a T-Shirt :D
MirZaRandom 6 months ago 57
Living in the Evil Baby Orphanage actually sounds kind of fun...I mean, it's all about training people to be better people, right? I mean, sure it's an orphanage, but it seems like it would become a great community of people trying to....do good....in the world......nerdfightaria? The Evil Baby Orphanage must reside in Nerdfightaria then, and supply us with nerdfighters!
Also, meat produced in laboratories is only a good idea if the name of the company is not Aperture....
vexbatch 6 months ago
When I heard meat in a lab could be possible, I immediately thought it was cool.
guavajagular 6 months ago 3
I heard that there are some Japanese scientists making meat out of excrement. That's gross. Also, eating Kosher meat is a bit of a solution to the whole suffering animals thing. I mean, they obviously still kill the animal, but Kosher law stipulates a certain way of slaughter that is quicker and supposedly less painful. This is what people tell me anyway.
plantaloons 6 months ago
If I wasn't anemic (iron deficient) I would SO be a veggo! GAAAAAAAAAH :/
NotQuiteEnglish 6 months ago
But I love showing our superiority of our species and celebrating the conquering of our prey by chomping down on a delicious steak....
Querty1995 6 months ago
1:58
JonBrownGilbert 6 months ago
I swear, I came up with the idea of growing meat in a lab like an hour before I saw this video. No fair, I was gonna get rich. :(
CyrusKosloff 7 months ago
As a vegetarian, I've noticed that I pay more attention to making healthy food decisions in general. If I have to look at a menu and say "Is there meat in this?" I may as well consider, "Is this good for me? Am I hungry enough to eat all of this?" It's kept me conscious of my decisions, and makes me proud to take up little less of the resources used to make meat.
(Also, please note that I was always someone who said "I could never be vegetarian". I am now going on three years.)
LCharvon 7 months ago