Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
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Re: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
#2The ethical argument for the adoption of artificial beef is always brought out during these stories. But they forget to mention that the lab grown meat only contains lean meat cells and in order to make it taste good they need to add animal fat. As in, fat from farmed and slaughtered animals.
Re: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
#3The ethical argument for the adoption of artificial beef is always brought out during these stories. But they forget to mention that the lab grown meat only contains lean meat cells and in order to make it taste good they need to add animal fat. As in, fat from farmed and slaughtered animals.
Shouldn't creating artificial fat be easier than creating artificial meat?
(I confess I have the impression that it would be easier based on a mere hunch... fat just seems less "complicated")
Re: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
#4Reverse sticker shock as clickbait, there's a new one.
Re: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
#5The ethical argument for the adoption of artificial beef is always brought out during these stories. But they forget to mention that the lab grown meat only contains lean meat cells and in order to make it taste good they need to add animal fat. As in, fat from farmed and slaughtered animals.
Can't you use plant fat?
Re: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
#6The ethical argument for the adoption of artificial beef is always brought out during these stories. But they forget to mention that the lab grown meat only contains lean meat cells and in order to make it taste good they need to add animal fat. As in, fat from farmed and slaughtered animals.
Can't you use plant fat?
Yep, or just cook in butter.
Re: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
#7It's unclear what methods they're using to make these burgers, but often you need many animal-derived products to culture cells. Fetal bovine serum, growth media, all of these have animal products in them. If they make an ethical argument, then they'll have to solve that too. They might have, but it's not clear in the article.
Re: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
#8I am really really excited about lab grown meat making it into the mass market and ultimately becoming cheaper than traditional meat. The environmental benefits will be insane; how much of the earth is currently devoted to either raising animals or growing feed to feed animals? If we can centralise the production of meat, suddenly we have huge swathes of land that, perhaps naively, I hope can be reforested.
Re: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
#9 Ethical considerations won't take this far. Need it to become cheaper than real meat the day that happens it will take off on its own.
Meat or cattle raising plays a big role in the worlds methane production decreasing that would be huge achievement as with more people getting out of poverty every year meat production and consumption is increasing.
Re: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
#10It's unclear what methods they're using to make these burgers, but often you need many animal-derived products to culture cells. Fetal bovine serum, growth media, all of these have animal products in them. If they make an ethical argument, then they'll have to solve that too. They might have, but it's not clear in the article.
I saw in a documentary that with only a sample of the skin they can grow like 10k burguers, and the animal won't even notice, it's like an injection. I don't remember the doc but it seems pretty ethical IMO.