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China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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I remember when the first lab meat burger patty was announced it was like $300K to produce.

There aren't long term studies into what lab produced meat means for the human body right? It's pretty new and very niche still - but knowing how China has "very loose rules" on these kind of topixs (I'm no expert in policies but it does feel like that), this looks like a great move to speed up (by injecting a lot of capital in research and operations) the insertion of lab produced meat into the market. Is this good? Well at least no animals will be harmed in the process - other than "human animals" who will be buying it eventually

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

I have little background about the cultured meat, and this link made me curious: wouldn't cancer cells be good candidate cells for creating this type of meat?

I also have little background, but I'd imagine the type of meat that cancer cells create is not the same as the type that tastes good.

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have little background about the cultured meat, and this link made me curious: wouldn't cancer cells be good candidate cells for creating this type of meat?

I also have little background, but I'd imagine the type of meat that cancer cells create is not the same as the type that tastes good.

Do you have any evidence why cancer shouldn't taste good?

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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This title is misleading (no one has spent a dollar as far as I can tell) and the article gets several facts wrong. For instance, it says "Meat The Future" is a clean meat company when in fact it's a sort of marketing and design group. There is no way China could buy meat from them. Poorly researched clickbait.

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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I remember when the first lab meat burger patty was announced it was like $300K to produce. There aren't long term studies into what lab produced meat means for the human body right? It's pretty new and very niche still - but knowing how China has "very loose rules" on these kind of topixs (I'm no expert in policies but it does feel like that), this looks like a great move to speed up (by injecting a lot of capital i…

Bound to work out about as well as lab produced butter or cheese.

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also have little background, but I'd imagine the type of meat that cancer cells create is not the same as the type that tastes good.

Do you have any evidence why cancer shouldn't taste good?

"good" steak, for instance is marbled. i'm not sure how you can get that with uncontrolled growth of one type of tissue. best case scenario you grow a huge chunk of cancerous muscle, and grind it with fat to make ground beef.
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