First lab grown meat approved by the FDA

[MMC]

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[The Crypto Guy]

 

[Seedtype]

I will be willing to try some if the price is reasonable.

Can't be worse than the current issues that can happen with meat products, and hey if it leads to less animal suffering I'm all for it.

 

[JMCx4]

Will it be marketed by the fast food purveyors as: "The Even More Impossible Burger"?

 

[tarheelhockey]

While "lab grown meat" sounds pretty gross, bear in mind how much of your current "meat" comes not even from a lab, but from a straight-up factory.

 

[MMC]

While "lab grown meat" sounds pretty gross, bear in mind how much of your current "meat" comes not even from a lab, but from a straight-up factory.

Seems like I'm in the minority, but I've never been bothered by the concept of lab grown meat. I was shocked when I first saw this that everyone was saying there's no way in hell they'd ever try it.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Seems like I'm in the minority, but I've never been bothered by the concept of lab grown meat. I was shocked when I first saw this that everyone was saying there's no way in hell they'd ever try it.

I think people are bothered by the unnatural sound of it. Conjures up images of meat being grown in a Petri dish, not connected to any particular living thing but just growing of its own accord.

 

[Seedtype]

I think people are bothered by the unnatural sound of it. Conjures up images of meat being grown in a Petri dish, not connected to any particular living thing but just growing of its own accord.

From what I remember from a video I watched a few months ago on the subject it's sounds like the process is kinda like a brewery.

I know it's not exactly like that, and I'm sure it's kinda gross, but eh I try to avoid documentaries about the meat industry for a reason, heh.
Just because it's grown instead doesn't bother me.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I know it's not exactly like that, and I'm sure it's kinda gross, but eh I try to avoid documentaries about the meat industry for a reason, heh.

Trying to navigate the food industry is a funny thing. If you stay ignorant, you can blissfully consume absolute poisonous garbage. If you make any effort to know what actually you’re eating, where it came from, you will never want to touch it again. The only path forward is to put huge amounts of energy and money into sourcing your food from truly natural origins, like starting a farm and growing things yourself. And it turns out that is also repulsive most of the time.

 

[JMCx4]

... The only path forward is to put huge amounts of energy and money into sourcing your food from truly natural origins, like starting a farm and growing things yourself. ...

I'll just stick with putting chocolate on everything I eat.

 

[Carey Chant]

Trying to navigate the food industry is a funny thing. If you stay ignorant, you can blissfully consume absolute poisonous garbage. If you make any effort to know what actually you’re eating, where it came from, you will never want to touch it again. The only path forward is to put huge amounts of energy and money into sourcing your food from truly natural origins, like starting a farm and growing things yourself. And it turns out that is also repulsive most of the time.

Starting a farm sounds great and all but with the carbon taxes and attacks on farmers (world wide protests never shown on mainstream news) it may eventually be too much trouble to grow your own food.

I do agree though if you see where food comes from, especially fast food, you won't want to eat that crap ever again.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Starting a farm sounds great and all but with the carbon taxes and attacks on farmers (world wide protests never shown on mainstream news) it may eventually be too much trouble to grow your own food.

I do agree though if you see where food comes from, especially fast food, you won't want to eat that crap ever again.

I don’t think people fully grasp where meat comes from. Let alone processed meat.

Most people are not cut out to actually provide food for themselves. If the hard work doesn’t get them, the reality of how to birth a calf might do the trick.

Lacking the desire to continue eating industrial waste products, and lacking the desire to become intimately acquainted with the feces of the hog you plan to murder and dissect, one needs to start making hard decisions.

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Starting a farm sounds great and all but with the carbon taxes and attacks on farmers (world wide protests never shown on mainstream news) it may eventually be too much trouble to grow your own food.

I do agree though if you see where food comes from, especially fast food, you won't want to eat that crap ever again.

can u link me to some of these news?. im interested in becoming educated about this.

I don’t think people fully grasp where meat comes from. Let alone processed meat.

Most people are not cut out to actually provide food for themselves. If the hard work doesn’t get them, the reality of how to birth a calf might do the trick.

Lacking the desire to continue eating industrial waste products, and lacking the desire to become intimately acquainted with the feces of the hog you plan to murder and dissect, one needs to start making hard decisions.

Upton Sinclair's the Jungle?

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

can u link me to some of these news?. im interested in becoming educated about this.

I'm not sure what I'm actually allowed to post or link here without someone taking offense to it, so I'll stick to mainstream outlet BBC:

Why Dutch farmers are protesting over emissions cuts

Farmers say proposals to cut livestock and reduce intensive farming unfairly target their industry.

www.bbc.com

I, for one, do not plan to eat crickets.

 

[Seedtype]

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/21/1165071880/fda-gives-2nd-safety-nod-to-cultivated-meat-produced-without-slaughtering-animal

Progress to approval continues.

 

[JMCx4]

"Think about yeast fermentation," (GOOD Meat scientist Vitor) Espirito Santo says. "The processes are the same. We feed them with nutrients, and they will multiply until we tell them to stop," he says. ..

So if they automate this process, then the entire staff of the "processing facility" is wiped out by a human plague, do we end up with ginormous chickens roaming around the Bay Area? Not all that much different than what Tyson does now "naturally" in Arkansas ...

 

[tarheelhockey]

The technology is being applied to... alternative applications.

This Massive Meatball Was Made With Woolly Mammoth DNA

Meant to be more sustainable than animal meat, this lab-grown alternative might offer a glimpse into the future of food production

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Seedtype]

Neat article, I was thinking it would be neat to try some meat our distant ancestors use to eat, but the concern over immune system interaction gives me pause, heh.

Not to be negative, but Italy did say they were banning lab grown meat, but EU rules might override if they think otherwise.

Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the proposed ban aims to protect farmers and consumers.

www.bbc.com

Obviously lab grown meat will be very disruptive to traditional industries, something that will have to be navigated.

 

[John Price]

Considering the waste factory farming generates I'll gladly take it

 

[tarheelhockey]

Considering the waste factory farming generates I'll gladly take it

We are definitely going to have to make some tough decisions about this in the near future.

 

[Hippasus]

I think the allure of meat, as well as dairy and eggs for that matter, has more to do with good taste and personal as well cultural habits than it has to do with health.