OT: Never complain about the cost of meat

[MasterChiToes]

Imperator Fyron said:
In what way is meat "unnatural" today? The fact that they cut up the animals and package it, rather than selling you whole, live animals for your own personal butchery circa 1300 CE? A few growth hormones here and there that have no credible scientific studies indicating any potential side-effects to humans eating the meat? Growth hormones are perfectly natural. So what if the cows mature physically a bit faster than they normally would? It doesn't harm the meat in any way.

Those hormones given to animals end up both in meat and milk... and contribute to premature puberty, and probably a wide variety of health problems. Funny thing that steroids and drugs that are illegal are allowed in food. Why not 100% pure marijuana fed beef?

Livestock feed also commonly includes reclaimed protein... which comes from meat designated unsuitable for human consumption, and by law is treated with creosote at some point, as well as from fido and fluffy when they get euthanized. Say hello to the primary source of mad cow disease.

Of course, vegetarians don't fair much better, beyond the obvious pesticides and fertilizers. Much of the world's farmlands were formerly inland seas, and are piss poor in essential nutritious minerals.

Anyway, I suggest putting more research into organics production, as well as spreading out your population to multiple terraformed worlds.