• Lab-Grown Meat Is Getting Cheap Enough For Anyone To Buy
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I don't think what we're going to do with the animals is going to be an issue. They're going to stop breeding them if it's not profitable, the animals that exist now will probably all be slaughtered, but we'd still be reducing impact on the environment as well as cruelty to hypothetical future generations of animals.
I mean really? People are saying we shouldn't transition because of this non-issue? Livestock production is going to taper down as lab meat is more highly adopted, it won't happen overnight bar government regulation. The livestock animals that are left will either be killed or will be sent to sanctuaries/adopted. To have a 'last generation' of these animals is better than continuing to breed them in to cruelty and slavery purely for our own selfish needs.
this is the worst argument lol it's not like demand will die out overnight, just close the farms as production scales down.
I don't think we're ever going to stop raising livestock, they'll probably stick around a little as a luxury, even if lab meat tastes better.
It's not like flicking a switch. Livestock numbers would just naturally decrease overtime. Sorry for quoting the whole post, I'm on mobile
Realistically, more. Assuming lab grown meat takes the form of amorphous (or less amorphous to preserve texture) then you'll probably lack the organs to produce the grown hormones naturally. Furthermore, to increase the production, efficiency and hence affordability of lab grown meat, it needs to be grown as fast as possible. After all, it'll be disappointing if lab grown meat needs just as much land and energy to grow as current livestock. Expect lab grown meat to be pumped up with as much growth hormones as possible. That being said, if this is a probably then there'll be ways to tackle it. Perhaps by soaking the meat in enzymes to break down excessive hormones before being shipped.
This, if I wanna kill something in the process I can always just go hunt a stag
No. Lab grown meat is a great feat in biotechnology, and I have full faith in the bioengineers and their work. I'd love to give this a try. When people hear "Lab grown" or "GMO" they just instantly assume a shitload of chemicals, unorthodox ways of prodution and it not being "natural". At the end of the day it's basically just the same shit, but modified for better growth, production, resilience against drought, etc. The organic-movement is based around ideology, and not research. The consequence of this? higher prices because of smaller yields. Soccer moms still buy it though, since they don't want to feed their kids "unnatural" food.
Guys I dont support staying with the slaughterhouses lmao. I was just pointing out how ironic it is that we're going to have to eventually slaughter off most of them anyways as it is prevented. The entire point is to be humane and stop it, but the only way is to reduce the number through them losing money which means the animals will be abused all the way to the very end. I am saying it is sad and I wish there was another way, but people immediately see me musing over a problem and say "omg he wants the chickens and cows to SUFFER!!!" like come on.
It's still a silly argument because those farms are going to raise and slaughter animals whether or not cultured meat exists. You make it sound as if animals are currently happily pooping out meat but once cultured meat comes along we'll have to kill all of them suddenly.
No I am saying it sucks there is no humane ending for them and was trying to discuss it with other people? Like I said an argument means I am trying to prove something when I am not.
Omg seriously dude can you read up on supply and demand
Lol fuck no once the FDA has gone through trials at least Do you realize that farm animals have to get pumped with antibiotics all the time just to keep the meat from being contaminated? Why not just do what we were planning to do in the first place, and kill them and eat them? But without replacing them afterwards lol.
alright then it was a silly point
Right, sorry for trying to discuss a situation that will arise that is directly related to the topic at hand. Like seriously, I pointed out something ironic and you're jumping down my throat for whatever reason lol, that seems a lot sillier than me.
If this many people are misinterpreting your point then you failed to make the point. I wouldn't ordinarily reply but you seem to be blaming everyone else for the confusion that you have created.
I only eat something if a life was snuffed out in order to produce it. Sorry!!!!
It's pretty dismissive to say that any and all criticism levied at GMOs is purely ideological. Current GMOs and the associated business model are not sustainable.
Just because American livestock farming is a disgusting growth hormone and antibiotics-fuelled mess doesn't mean that all animal farming is literally the devil and it shouldn't exist you know. Maybe I just have a different perspective due to living in a country that has to actively struggle to maintain its agricultural heritage. Or maybe I'd like to consume animal parts and tasty, tasty organs besides "generic muscle tissue", which really doesn't seem to be in fashion anywhere west.
My only issue is when it becomes competitively cheap with butchered meat. Sure, it's possible for anyone to buy it, but if it's twice as expensive, I can't exactly replace all my meat purchases with lap grown. Hell, if it was cheap enough, I could switch to nonmeat burgers and the like. I'm dating someone who doesn't eat meat so I've been trying this stuff, and it's really not bad at all. It's just expensive.
Once it gets distinctly cheaper than regular meat I'll make the switch in an instant. Most of my meat consumption consists of chuck and the cheapest cuts of pork in bulk. "Nice" meat is so absurdly expensive already that I can't justify it in my budgeting.
That looks like hot trashlump with horizontal pigeon-squirt to me. Pass. I'd rather have one of these- https://www.eggwansfoododyssey.com/livchefblog/longhorn-96/longhorn-48-ounce-steak.jpg
This is good. We need to stop wasting energy on cattle as soon as possible. Also, as a meat eater to other meat eaters that don't plan to budge regarding this: please grow the fuck up already.
Pretentious appearance.
If it doesn't taste like shit and doesn't turn my insides into radioactive mush or something, I'll eat it.
So, no salt ever?
which has nothing to do with the fact its synthetic or how it tastes
Another thing that comes with this is the potential to have small tilable machines where you toss the required chemicals into them and a couple days later your Burger(s) is ready for the grill in a much similar way to 3D metal printers. If everyone had 1 or 2 of these in their home it would drastically cut down the anything meat related industry.
He might get his salt from that Lake Natron in Tanzania that is so alkaline that it basically mummifies animals that die in/near it.
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