[pp.int.general] Artificial meat

[Gijs Overvliet]

>From what I understand, pirates are not against GMO. However, in practice
GMO's usually are patented, and pirates are against THAT.

In this case, I wonder if it's even genetically modified. Surely it's
modified, but genetically?

Still, I'm not going to eat that meat...

2012/2/23 Pat Maechler aka Valio <pirate at valio.ch>

> are we against GMO?
> I don't know; I haven't seen this in my party, but I think there's
> certainly at least one pirate party to be found that is against it.
> I know that there are several problems if you want to use GMO in some
> areas, and if you want not to use it in others (i.e. it creates a
> whole new dependency, because farmers are forced to buy new grain for
> each generation, as the grain has to use terminator genes)
> That argument is likely not the problem here as you just grow fat and
> muscular cells in a lab that can't reproduce.
>
> Also what do you mean when you say "and similar mumbo-jumbo"?
> There's a wide range how one can interpret that sentence :-P
>
> Given that there are GMO I find the idea of mandatory FLOSS like
> regulations intriguing
>
> http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/2010-September/007517.html
>
> Of course: The idea would not be to let the livestock "back" into
> wilderness. That would be ridiculous. But it's not as if you could not
> reduce over-commercialized lifestock over  a certain timespan.
>
> BTW: I think organic food has it's advantages, but also disadvantages.
> We could go into a long discussion here, but that was actually not my
> intention ;)
>
> -pat
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