Thanks for the comment. I've just read your article (although it was a bit dense so I would likely need to re-read it). I appreicate the focus on local solutions - which from my read seems like we have common ground as you don't seem to outright reject lab grown meat but rather the global systems that would use it to centralise control?
I actually see hope that in the long run as economics of scale kick in and if this tech gets commoditised we could see more consumer verisions of this technology pop up or larger commercial products reduce in cost which could actually help increase the local cultivisation of food and stengthing local food systems by making it more equitable and reducing barriers to grow food or meats.
I keep my work largely seperate from God or Religion so I won't comment on that part as I think when talking about food systems, health and solving protein problems we should squarely focus on scientific and health outcomes.
Yes I think that’s the gist of it— although I think the danger of leaving God out of it is that, if not some version of Natural Law and if not GOd, the result will not be neutral, but some other ‘god’….in this case an idolatry of technology that leads to transhumanism and actually eliminates humanity in the end…What CS Lewis called ‘the abolition of man’. I think the ecomodernist left and teh globalist project of the WEF/4th Industrial revolution is full of that Faustian stuff. But it’s not the technology per se at all
I'm less than convinced. My reasoning is here https://oswald67.substack.com/p/are-edible-insects-and-lab-grown?r=2r3au
Thanks for the comment. I've just read your article (although it was a bit dense so I would likely need to re-read it). I appreicate the focus on local solutions - which from my read seems like we have common ground as you don't seem to outright reject lab grown meat but rather the global systems that would use it to centralise control?
I actually see hope that in the long run as economics of scale kick in and if this tech gets commoditised we could see more consumer verisions of this technology pop up or larger commercial products reduce in cost which could actually help increase the local cultivisation of food and stengthing local food systems by making it more equitable and reducing barriers to grow food or meats.
I keep my work largely seperate from God or Religion so I won't comment on that part as I think when talking about food systems, health and solving protein problems we should squarely focus on scientific and health outcomes.
Yes I think that’s the gist of it— although I think the danger of leaving God out of it is that, if not some version of Natural Law and if not GOd, the result will not be neutral, but some other ‘god’….in this case an idolatry of technology that leads to transhumanism and actually eliminates humanity in the end…What CS Lewis called ‘the abolition of man’. I think the ecomodernist left and teh globalist project of the WEF/4th Industrial revolution is full of that Faustian stuff. But it’s not the technology per se at all
Great overview. Thanks!