There's not much of a wait left until the day a man will be able to come home from work, eat a lab-grown Bratwurst, have sex with his sex robot, and then relax with an electric cigarette.
All that, yet he's still commuting home from work.
Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
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#32This is awesome. Presumably, at some point we'll have the process optimised to the point that it could be done in your own home, or at a local (supermarket?) level. Imagine having a kitchen appliance that produces meat from liquid feedstock. Even more speculatively, I wonder if the nutrient medium could be produced from other kitchen scraps? That's basically what animals were kept for in the past. Aside, it sounds li…
Decentralized production of protein, if possible, would be pretty awesome indeed.
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#33This is awesome. Presumably, at some point we'll have the process optimised to the point that it could be done in your own home, or at a local (supermarket?) level. Imagine having a kitchen appliance that produces meat from liquid feedstock. Even more speculatively, I wonder if the nutrient medium could be produced from other kitchen scraps? That's basically what animals were kept for in the past. Aside, it sounds li…
Its been in the research stages for a while but I fear that even if they could 'grow' you a filet mignon the anti-vax* folks are going to go ballistic against it. It would certainly not be 6 months from now, and I suspect not even 6 years from now even if instant steak was demonstrable today.
* The anti-vaccine movement, also known as anti-vax, is filled with vocal, litigious, people who do not care for the science or the facts. They would have the human race become extinct because it would be 'better for the planet.' (note this is hyperbole but not far off from some of the more extreme elements of that movement.)
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#35There's not much of a wait left until the day a man will be able to come home from work, eat a lab-grown Bratwurst, have sex with his sex robot, and then relax with an electric cigarette.
Judging from the title, about 6 more months.
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#36It's likely that the lab grown "meat" won't be a proper substitute for the meat that we evolved to eat. Food is more complicated than it outwardly appears (i.e. a collection of muscle cells != meat) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t....
Agreed. As a carnivore with a conscience I'm all about jumping on the lab meat bandwagon. But as someone big on natural foods and skeptical of the current state of nutritional knowledge, I would be hesitant to base a substantial part of my protein requirements on this.
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Even more interesting, at least to me- what will the vegetarians do? As for all the animals, their populations would obviously get scaled back. The transition would not happen overnight, there would be plenty of time. Though you may have a point- domestic pigs would likely become pets and little else. However, chickens still lay eggs, cows still make milk, and sheep and goats still produce milk and wool.
Your points about non-meat animal products still very much hold still. Pigs would be pets and sources of organ scaffolding for humans. Additionally, the yearlong production of milk in animals requires contant pregnancies, so will still cause many animals to killed. For instance, goat milk products kill far more male goats than any demands for the meat. There are multiple types of vegetarians. Ones who dislike the mor…
As a vegetarian, I'd eat it, but hold off for a while atleast to look for potential health consequences. I'm not too worried about nutritional imbalance because I don't think this will ever be my primary source of nutrition.
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#40My first thought here is that fast food chains will try and pick this up to cut costs, it can be grown cheaper than farming.