World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burgers per day
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#2> Future Meat Technologies says this facility requires 96-percent less freshwater than livestock production, as well as using 99-percent less land and producing 80-percent fewer greenhouse emissions.
Even accounting for PR hyperbole, it is so apparent at this point that any country who chooses not to board this train will be at the mercy of those who do. This is a national security issue. We can choose to curse our younger generations with a warped sense of ickiness or masculinity, or we can choose protein security indefinitely into the future.
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#3A key benefit of cultured meat is its minimized impact on the environment => And the key danger is its maximized impact on the body.
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#4Still high cholesterol but a good idea
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#5The price seems to be ~$3.90 to produce chicken breast. Given that I regularly find chicken breast in a store for $1.99, I'll assume that's still ~3x as costly as just farm raising chickens. It will be interesting if subsidies can change this though. The negative externalities of raising animals must be huge. The jobs tied up in these industries are enormous as well though.
Re: World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burgers per day
#6> Future Meat Technologies says this facility requires 96-percent less freshwater than livestock production, as well as using 99-percent less land and producing 80-percent fewer greenhouse emissions. Even accounting for PR hyperbole, it is so apparent at this point that any country who chooses not to board this train will be at the mercy of those who do. This is a national security issue. We can choose to curse our y…
I’m all in favour of this for climate change and animal welfare reasons, but I don’t see how it’s a national security concern in e.g. Europe and America, given they already encourage farming overproduction specifically because food is so important, and that almost everywhere could already be more effective in how many people a given unit of land area or fresh water can support, both by encouraging vegetable-based diets and separately with more poly-tunnels, greenhouses, and aeroponics.
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#7A key benefit of cultured meat is its minimized impact on the environment => And the key danger is its maximized impact on the body.
What impact?
Re: World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burgers per day
#8A key benefit of cultured meat is its minimized impact on the environment => And the key danger is its maximized impact on the body.
how so? as far as i am aware, this is actual meat, compared to a substitute.
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#9Really cool they made it happen. I looked at the topic years ago, and was pushed away from serum (e.g. FBS) costs, and potential PR backlash coming from using genetic modification or cell line immortalizion to decrease unit costs.
Alas, they seem to have done it w/o these modifications. I need to crawl into their patents.
There are clear advantages to produce animal protein via biotechnology, although I wonder if the formulation of more complex end product's (e.g. a bio identical steak) will be doable within the cost frame.
I love how they made the PR in the whole industry: very ideologic, almost like Apple. I wonder how the acceptance rate will be. Interesting times for pharmers.
At the end, it is just another technology leap like the Haber Bosch Process. Sustainable management of resources and human population control is what really counts.
Re: World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burgers per day
#10> Future Meat Technologies says this facility requires 96-percent less freshwater than livestock production, as well as using 99-percent less land and producing 80-percent fewer greenhouse emissions. Even accounting for PR hyperbole, it is so apparent at this point that any country who chooses not to board this train will be at the mercy of those who do. This is a national security issue. We can choose to curse our y…
The greenest protein factory is the one that we don't have to build - even if it's 99% less land or 80% fewer greenhouse emissions than the traditional farming of cows, sheep and poultry. It's actually this: https://interestingengineering.com/the-explosion-of-insect-p...