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After reading Revkin's article, I was absolutely in awe by the idea of growing meat in a petri dish. I do not find it at all feasbile, and although I understand that idea of trying to minimize the deaths of animals by converting to producing meat that has been grown in a petri dish, I cannot find one way in which this idea would be humane. It is human nature to consume meat, or if one chooses not to, there are countless other foods, not containing meat that can be consummed that are natural. However, the attempt to somehow change or alter human nature by encouraging consumers to eat meat that has been grown in a petri dish, I feel is absolutely unacceptable.

What worries me perhaps is the idea that many people in society now may not know even what a petri dish is, or they may not know just how much genetic engineering is involved in the production of meat grown in a petri dish. Therefore, in many ways, the idea of this meat that supposedly harms less animals than convential meat may sound rather appealing to a large majority of consumers, in a number of ways. However, it is still against human nature, and therefore, I do not believe that human nature can be changed. Human nature is instinctual and natural, and it nearly impossible to eliminate this attribute from a human being. Although there may be several forces that try to detract this from an individual, I still remain that it is impossible to change human nature.