Thursday
Feb112010
Grow your meat not your baby - Ep. 18
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 7:55PM Colleen and Molly join us with some more provocative predictions. Will we grow our own meat? Will having babies become uncool? Yes. But find out why!
Reader Comments (8)
Regarding overpopulation...we see that many "developed" nations are having low to negative birthrates whereas less developed nations continue to procreate. I think many in the developed nations share Colleen's opinion which is fine but there are consequences. For example, in Japan robots are being developed to care for the elderly as their population is dwindling and won't have the human resources necessary to care for the elderly. What a sad and cold comfort that is.
In less developed nations a family member would be there to help (granted mortality would be greater in those countries too).
Thankfully the show had a balanced perspectives expressed by parents versus non-parents.
This was possibly my favorite episode of FourCast so far. The prediction that we will grow meat in the future made me think of Emma Clayton's book "The Roar". I really hope that some of you will read and/or listen to the audiobook of that story -- it tells of a very grim future where people exist on "tank meat" and no animals even exist anymore. A REALLY good dystopian novel!
Here is what I want. I want you to do a lightning round or something close to that after every weekly installment. Maybe some sort of future movie quiz or something lighthearted and fun at the end of every installment.
Not only meat,I think sometime soon we will figure out how to manipulate matter at a quantum level.When this happens not only will we be able to create genetically tasty and healthy gruel.But we will be able to pull matter from the air and recombine it into anything we like (imagine the copyright fiasco).
Humans will not change.As a culture,we are resistant to change.So the only answer is to make living as we do a feasible affair "Why change when technology can fix us".Anyways,..Thanks FourCast for making me think too damn much..Like I have time for thinking ;)
Great Show.Keep on keepin' on..
Adding to what Colleen is saying about it being socially expected to not have more than 1 or 2 kids:
I had quite a few Chinese friends in college here on visas; they were all single children. When they found out that my family had 3 children, including me, several of them commented about how selfish my parents were for having more than 1 kid, and asked me what it was like to know that I could have gotten more affection and resources from my parents if they only had me (I'm the oldest) instead of having to split time / affection / financial resources with 2 more people.
I'm not sure it's the 1 kid is an actual law, or if there are just heavy taxes if you have a second child . I've heard both, so maybe it just varies. That idea is getting ingrained into their culture. It may come from the government telling them this is the justification, or people individually coming to that conclusion so that they feel like it's their choice to have just 1 kid instead of being pressured into having just 1 kid.
P.S. Love the show.
Growing our meat is already being marketed. I get emails telling me i can grow my meat 3-4 inches in less than a month
Bouncing off BigMike, I remember talking in an ethics class about a billboard in China regarding the one-child limit. It referred to having another child as "one more body to bury."
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