I was happy that John Fetterman defeated Dr. Oz for the U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania. I haven't paid that much attention to Fetterman since then, but I gather that lately he's been flagrantly wrong on the Israel/Palestine situation.
And now, a couple of days ago, he made a statement on Twitter saying Florida man Ron DeSantis was right to sign a bill banning lab-grown meat. That's not an issue I've been tracking particularly, but Fetterman followed the statement with this:
btw, this is the thing that makes lab meat:
This is, of course, an aspect of the naturalistic fallacy, and his respondents were not having it.
I first saw the thread because a friend retweeted him and responded with this:
Do you drink beer made in things like this?
Other people responded in various ways:
Looks clean and disease-free. Cheese is made in a similar fashion.
So cool! That’s American ingenuity right there :)
by the way, this is the thing that makes hydrogenated oil for for the foods that contribute to 1/3 of your state being obese:
Multiple people pushed back with a version of this one (often with photos, which I will not reproduce):
Uh, you really want to argue aesthetics? Have you seen slaughterhouse footage?
And this one is probably my favorite, though I don't feel a great need for lab-grown meat as a way to replace meat in my diet:
So you’re saying we could get meat without having to make it in a cow first? Without taking millions of acres of farmland just for growing feed, or thousands of gallons/pound of precious underground aquifer water? Without having to put the Midwest in danger of another dustbowl?
Yesterday, Twitter added a community note to Fetterman's post, which gives context to make it clear that most food these days goes through machines such as the one he was decrying.
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