While I agree with Saletan's premise that it is better to eat lab-grown meat than traditionally produced meat, I deny the idea that people are incapable of reducing their meat consumption before lab-grown meat is available. His daughter may have learned from baby food to want meat, but my cousin's children, in their vegetarian mother's household, do not enjoy the samples of flesh they are offered now that they are older. And to say that people cannot rise above their "meat lust" ignores the continuously growing numbers of vegetarians and vegans, not to mention those who will only eat fish or eschew all red meat. Whether it is for improved health, the dictates of personal morality, or a simple matter of taste, there are people who do not eat meat. And while there may be some vegetarians with hamburger envy, most of these cravings decrease as time spent as a vegetarian increases. Our bodies can easily become addicted to meat, but eventually the withdrawal symptoms end. In the case of vegetarianism, the body is willing. It is the spirit which most often proves weak. If Saletan recognizes that eating meat is wrong, he shouldn't wait for lab-grown alternatives before ending his complicity in the needless cruelty and resource waste that is the meat industry.