Lab-Grown Meat Is Getting Cheap Enough For Anyone To Buy
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this could be really great for muslims like me because we can only eat meat from any animal but a pig that had some dude reciting the qur'an while slaughtering it or some shit, which is why we can't eat meat from like 99% of american restaurants. if there is no sort of meat at all involved in the process, it tastes almost exactly like real meat, and becomes used worldwide, then i can finally stop being effectively vegetarian when going to american restaurants.
Aged beef varies in flavor depending on the diet and lifestyle of the animal, while you're going to get perfect consistency and flavor every time with lab meat, you're missing out on the different flavor profiles that develop over the lifetime of the animal. The chef in me wants to scream in agony at the prospect of no pasture raised beef, thankfully that's never going to happen in our lifetime.
One could argue nature has a proven track record while these technologies do not.
I only care about eating out cheap and at home, but for 'high quality' cooking that specializes in meat I can agree that it'll definitely agree that real meat will still have that market.
The more they suffer the better they taste. When they scream in endless terror when they die that's when you know its good cooking.
Dude like 90% of American food may as well be factory made and lab born. If you aren't getting locally grown, you're probably getting fake food.
Do you know what they do with orange juice? Just saying, it's pretty much not oranges afterwards. Same thing with honey, it's all fake, and processed.
This is why I go to a local meat market who has local, organic sourced meat. You may have to go early in the week/day to buy your chicken breast before it sells out, but it's not 50% brine solution like the crap you get at walmart, and tastes so much better too. same with their pork or beef.
Hell yeah I'd buy lab meat as long as it's comparable in price. The only reason that it can be tough to buy organic or other meats that are better quality is because it can be expensive.
But if the stuff tastes the same and costs around the same, I'd totally try to switch over.
No because im not a basement dwellers who eats chicken tindies for every meal. I like trying new things, life is about trying new things.
That fake shit isn't ever coming in my kitchen, it's probably horribly uniform, real meat has variation like blood vessels, fatty areas, tendons, bones, skin, organs, etc, I'd be impressed if they even come slightly close to replicating that.
Pardon me for being the rude asshole that is shaking your fantastic life of ultimate cuisine, but has it ever occurred to you that this topic mainly involves THE SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN RACE for example?
I'm not saying I'm not willing to try it; I'm saying I'll probably poke it a couple of times before putting it into my mouth.
Damn dude you seem to have some really secret info that these scientists never could've attained themselves. You should share it with them and be a hero.
"Should we try to actually make this be like real meat?"
"Nah lmao let's just make it uniform we're dumb scientists who can't possibly consider this basic issue"
Grass fed and organic beef probably won’t be replicated like this.
Im happy to see them try, I’ll try it myself, but free range beef is the cow as it is supposed to be. I doubt they’ll replicate the flavours and textures of that cow living it’s life. I’m happy to have them try but I’m skeptical.
When you really get into food it’s hard to ignore the differences in the backgrounds of where your meat comes from.
We cant even replicate marijuana in an accurate or similar to life manner. I don’t know that we can say that the meat we’ve lab grown i is identical to good farm meat.
Im against factory farming but regular agricultural practices for livestock are good for the environment and us.
You want people to know that this lab grown meat is getting cheap enough for everyone to buy, so you display it in a way that is displayed pretentiously and generally goes with a high price tag, despite it being a small serving.
It's not about the taste, it's about how much it costs now compared to what it used to or whatever.
I would happily buy lab grown meat, though I do have some reservations about how it is produced.
It sounds like it needs to essentially consume crops in order to produce the biomass. I'd be curious to know what crops it can take in and how efficient compared to livestock the conversion ultimately is.
Can we use things like kelp to fuel this mass?
Humans raise livestock because it is obviously delicious, but also because most of the planet isn't really all that great for farming human crops. Hay, on the other hand, is far more robust and can be grown in a massive variety of regions. Livestock allow us to take land that is otherwise not producing human consumable energy, and turns it into a source of calories.
If this reaction isn't similarly robust, we are going to have a basic math problem arise.
Humans are solar powered. Crops take solar energy and convert them to calories. If we suddenly have to rely on the calories that can be produced only from good farm land, we simply don't have sufficient square footage to feed everyone.
So I'm totally for lab grown meat, but the process needs to actually be good for the environment (or at least better than livestock) and it needs to have a robust source of calories that aren't otherwise being consumed as produce by humans.
Neither of these concerns are addressed by their website FM Technologies.
You wouldn't need to give up meat if this were to become ubiquitous, is the thing.
The thing is that most meat just isn't used to make delicious bbq, steak, or whatever else. Most of it goes into hamburgers, sausages, filler for other meals, etc. It's not all-or-nothing, any reduction in meat production is a net gain.
Life is too short to be a weenie, so no. I would not.
Yeah I'm willing to take a hit on meat quality for a little bit if it means we won't be fucking up our planet with lifestock.
Also if you eat burger king/mcdonalds frequently don't pretend that you like ~artisan butchery~. A lot of affordable meat is filled up with complete shit.
if its as good as the real deal and helps the planet then there's nothing to lose
win/win situation really
Chances are if the process becomes cheap enough then it will be cheap meat that gets replaced first (like stuff that's used in supermarket ready-made meals).
Restaurants that pride themselves on steaks and stuff will be the last to go, considering that the process described in this article doesn't use blood as a medium.
Honestly, if this stuff is anywhere close to as good as regular meat, there really is no reason to eat real meat anymore. Just on a moral stand point
Unless I've been living under a very big rock the meat industry isn't putting the human race at risk, we're far more likely to blow ourself up in a war or by global warming.
Also it's perfectly possible to farm animals is a sustainable manner so no I'm not going to change my diet.
Of course they're aware of the problem, producing artificial meat has a whole bunch of issues that we're not even close to solving, such as the requirement for preservatives, lack of
many minerals and enzymes that are present in real meat and the difficulty in selling it to consumers, at best we're at least 5 years away from anything commercially viable, even
then it won't be replacing real meat for a long time except maybe in hamburgers and processed garbage.
The meat industry contributes to global warming, resource depletion, and anti biotic resistance...
yes and one of the major contributors of deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and pollution from runoff is...
Ethical farming, and ethical hunting both disagree with you.
There are areas over run with deer, like Hawaii, Montana, some parts of BC, and etc. They eat too much vegetation and damage the forests they themselves rely on. Keeping their population in check via the oval hunting is a valid moral reason to eat meat.
Ethical farming is about treating the animals well, raising them on natural land, they benefit from the land and the land benefits from them. The small farms that grow food and livestock use both in a symbiotic cycle. Those animals are only slaughtered when they need to be, when they’re ready to be, and animals die with or without us. Playing a role in that cycle isn’t a moral negative by neccesity as you state it is. There are moral reasons to eat ethical farmed meat.
Sure, but ethical farming can't put out the same volume of product that is put out in regular farming
Human populations will stabilize at around 11 billion. The global 'hey guys what do we do not to fucking literally go extinct' agenda right now is to maximize energy efficiency of everything we do. We waste insanely large amounts of food (energy) on livestock instead of consuming it ourselves.
Source on that claim? Doesn't sound very credible to me, considering the higher up the food chain you go, the more energy had to be converted to obtain 1 calorie (not to mention the huge amounts of water you need to use). Livestock is particularly inefficient in that regard. In addition, most industrial farming processes feed animals with stuff that would be edible by humans in the first place. So as far as I know, cutting back on meat production and using those crops to feed humans instead would actually increase the total amount of available calories.
I'd wager that if you bred just enough livestock to only consume what is grown on soil that is actually not fit for growing human crops, total meat production would be but an insignificant fraction of what it currently is.
Crops take solar energy and convert them to calories. If we suddenly have to rely on the calories that can be produced only from good farm land, we simply don't have sufficient square footage to feed everyone.
So animals produce energy then? Is that what you are saying?
How isn't it credible?
About a third of the possible crop space is currently being farmed. That is generally the most ideal land. The remaining 2/3rds not being farmed is capable of being farmed, but would require significant effort. Deforestation in many cases.
Livestock are fed using hay, which grows in farmland of low quality, and, as you suggest, human crops. The important component here is that we feed livestock the crops that we can't or won't feed to humans. So rather than completely waste those calories, they are fed to livestock. They are an inefficient, but effective, method of converting inedible calories into edible ones.
Which is why I'm curious about what you can feed this biomass with. How flexible are the fuel sources?
I am completely on board with lab grown meat, I'm just cautious about jumping on a tech that doesn't actually solve the issues with mass livestock production.
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