Meat No Longer Murder??

Chet Raymo’s “A Measure of Restraint” provides multiple compelling arguments for humans to show “a measure of restraint” when it comes to developing new scientific ideas.  Arguably the most important reason humans study history is to learn from the mistakes we made in the past – and be sure not to make them again.  So starting his passage with two historic examples of times scientific discoveries caused harm very effectively uses this fact about history.  It is very essential, now more than ever, that the human race show restraint in science.  It seems like every day there is an article on the front page of Reddit (“the front page of the internet”) informing readers of a new wild discovery or advancement in science.  One of these articles caught my eye specifically, it was one about how scientists have now developed in a lab, meat complete with “fake” blood, which did not involve the death of an animal to create.  While my initial reaction – like many others in the comment section – was “wow this is amazing” I was also reminded of Chet Raymo’s “A Measure of Restraint.”  I think that it is very important that we study and test everything about this “meat” before humans even think about eating it.  We must learn from the discoveries and the mistakes that followed them from the past and make sure there is no harm from this discovery and from those to follow it.