Yeah I’m not a vegetarian, but if lab grown meat were widely available at a reasonable price I’d think a little poorly of people that went out of their way to eat the remains of a sentient being instead.
I’ve already swapped a lot of my meat consumption to meat alternatives like beyond meat and impossible and so on
Interestingly, while French was the lingua franca of Europe for several hundred years, it wasn’t the origin of the term ‘Lingua Franca’.
That term meant the “language of the Franks” and was the Mediterranean trade language in the medieval through Renaissance eras. It was actually a pidgin of Italian, French, Greek and Arabic adopted as being roughly mutually intelligible among Venetians, Byzantines and North Africans.
The reference to the ‘Franks’ is because the generic word for a western European (in the Byzantine, Greek world) had long been “Frank”.
I always thought the same thing! I only found this out relatively recently, and I thought it was pretty cool