I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don’t eat beef. It’s not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn’t raised very religious, I didn’t go to temple everyday and read Gita every evening unlike most muslims who are somewhat serious about their religion, my family has this watered down religion (which has it’s advantages).
But yeah, not eating beef is a moral issue I deal with. I mean, I don’t care that I don’t eat beef, but the fact that I eat pork and chicken but not beef seems to me to be weird. So, is there any religious practice that you guys follow to this day?
All food is just a bunch of chemicals bunched into one.
I know what you mean though, and while, as far as I know, some manufactured meat is actually just grown in a lab, there’s a lot of stuff needed to keep cell cultures alive outside of a body that I wouldn’t really want to eat or have around my food, so it’ll be something to watch out for when it’s widely available.
Still morally and environmentally better though, in most cases.