Are you sure about that? Can you make a case for that? We food-chain-topping humans are always coming up with all sorts of new ways to do things, new gadgets, new ideas, new ways of looking at things (and reasons for doing so). What makes you so sure what the next step is?

Maybe, perhaps...could it be? That we clawed and etc. to get to a place in the food chain where we can solve world hunger?

my meat tube is unnaturally awesome. does that count?

bananas (at least the specific species that you buy at most grocery stores) are also quite likely going to die out in the next few years, due to stupid crop planning methods. when those are gone, we'll move on to another, less-tasty breed of bananas, and then those will all die out. the banana situation is dire.

i'm not sure if you're talking about not eating meat, or switching to tubmeat instead of butchering actual animals. if it's the latter, well, i honestly don't see a difference (from the biting/scratching/clawing/clubbing standpoint) between eating meat from a factory farm, and eating meat grown in a tub. in both cases, the values of a hunter-gatherer caveman are not present.

The only reason we are at the top of the food chain is for three reasons.

1. opposable thumb.
2. intelligence (for the most part)
3. breeding habits.

If you ever noticed, it took 7 or 8 of our ancestors to take down animals in the wild, even then the animal could usually maul one or two of them. That's where our breeding habits and pack mentality come into play. Lose a tribesperson? make another one. Put one human, without any weapons, up against a grizzly or a polar bear, and they're basically lunch.

We have the ability to create and utilize tools, such as spears. We learned how animals migrated, and how fish swam upstream at certain times of the year. We used our tools and intelligence to hunt and gather.

The opposable thumb helped us make and throw the spear, make nets for catching fish, and other such wonderful things.

If you were to take any one of those three things away, we are just a big flesh colored marshmallow to any carnivorous animal. Most people have lost the ability to defend themselves and care for themselves in the wild, and if we were to have a natural/terroristic disaster that took out our main infrastructure, you'd see a lot of people die off due to being so dependent on modern accessories, like grocery stores.

While i do occasionally eat meat, i mostly stick to greens and other vegetables, i am not entirely vegetarian. My carnivorous side does come out every once in a while, as long as the meat tasted the same, and had the same texture, it wouldn't really entirely bother me.

I don't have anything against vegetarians, or vegans, but I could not convert to either way of existing. My body reacts poorly to soy, and meat substitutes. Probably as poorly as meat would react to someone that has lived their whole life on a vegan lifestyle.

As the poet once said, "If God didn't want us to eat animals, he shouldn't have made them so damn tasty."

In theory, manufactured meat is potentially a good idea. Except for the fact that we wouldn't be able to export it other countries that would need it for example...because even if it was 100% perfectly healthy and better for you than real meat...you'd still have some crazies that sound convincing enough telling people how dangerous it is. (like the people who are against the engineered fruits and vegetables)

Not only will the animals die it will also put alot of people out of work. Think of it, a whole industry gone. Sure a new one pops up but it will be a lab with educated workers. What are the farmers to do, they lose there source of income, have animals they can't afford to feed, no one wants to by them they produce not money, probably lose there house not because they can't afford it but the area is condemned due to the rotting corpse of the farm animals.

You can see in our ancestors, however, that their is a direct correlation between their brain size and the amount of concentrated protein (meat) that made up their diet.

It seems to me that the farms this stuff will put out of business will be the big corporate farms. Then small family farms can thrive once again.

This pussy seems to be enjoying itself.

it still remains that a hell of a lot of people will be out of a job if those corporate farms shut down. maybe the smaller family farms will thrive, in that case--or maybe they won't, because the loss of such a large industry would put a serious kink in the national economy, which would mean that a) nobody's going to have money to buy a farm, and b) nobody's going to have money to buy what the farms are selling anyhow.

to be honest, though, i don't see tubmeat putting corporate farms out of business. actual cow/chicken/pig flesh, butchered from live animals, will simply become a luxury item instead of a regular commodity. corporate farms will shrink because demand will go down, but they'll be able to charge more for their product.

you're absolutely right.

if there's one thing history has taught us, it's that humans are totally unable to adapt to new conditions as the world around them changes.

Yeah, the poet.

Who was that ? Shakespeare ?

I forget

Believe me, i watch the history channel/NatGeo/Discovery non-stop. Meat has played an important part in our development. What bothers me is that it seems we've hit the peak of our intelligence and are now on the downward spiral.

Larry The Cable Guy. He's known for his exquisite poetry.

That cus we no eat lot meat.

i blame cell phones