bleh

[textualdeviance]

So, I was going to head up to B'ham momentarily, and went to check traffic.

I-5 N through Everett is almost a solid black line. Given the hour of the day, that's not going to dissipate even when whatever it is that's blocking things clears up. Unless I feel like being stuck in traffic or picking my way through an alternate route, I'm kinda stuck here until things finally loosen up. Probably around 8p.

Hey, mekle, wanna have dinner together after all?

ETA:

Speaking of edibles, this is amazing.

As an o/l veg, I could actually see myself eating this stuff. If an animal wasn't slaughtered or abused to make it, that's good enough for me. A tiny sample of muscle tissue to grow the cells isn't a big deal, and if doing that means there will be less need to cause far more pain and death to animals, then great.

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[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

Well, the grossout factor is what drives me most of the time--I tend to have the same reaction to eating a chunk of dead muscle tissue that other people would have to eating a plate of grilled cockroaches--but something about this engineered stuff just seems different to me. I guess it would kind of depend on what it really ended up like and what they had to do to get it there.

Of course, I also have an issue with eating Quorn simply because the concept of a fungus that grows that fast is kind of creepy. ;)