If they can compete with textured soy protean then they have a viable market with pretty low technical requirements. As they develop texture and structure they could replace fajita and stir fry meats, maybe nuggets. Lots of markets as the product matures.
Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
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#72I am 100% for devastating the livestock industry within my lifetime but I think they are going to fight this on every level, especially politically, so it's doomed.
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#73When will I be able to print my own T-bone with my 3D printer?
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#74Interesting article and I hope it becomes a reality in usage very soon.
I have been a vegetarian since birth. Earlier it was because my family was vegetarian and later it was because of my belief that I wanted to cause minimum harm to living thing. But I don't know why my instant reaction was that I am not going to eat it. All my reasons for not wanting to eat meat are resolved by this. No on suffers. Yet I don't think I would touch that.
I am all for it and I think it would be a very good step in many ways.
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#75Hypothetical question. Let's say this fruitions and is widely popular. Wouldn't that mean we would simply stop rearing cattle and poultry? Would that mean the species will go extinct? Now isn't that cruelty.
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#76If lab-grown meat qualifies as vegetarian, will that mean that lab-grown human meat won't count as cannibalism? Wacky.
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#77Earlier results of this process at Eindhoven University of Technology included that "due to safety restrictions, the scientists were not allowed to eat the meat, which tasted bland". (sorry, lost the reference)
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#78Hypothetical question. Let's say this fruitions and is widely popular. Wouldn't that mean we would simply stop rearing cattle and poultry? Would that mean the species will go extinct? Now isn't that cruelty.
I don't think you can be cruel to a species because a species doesn't feel anxiety and pain.
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#79Hypothetical question. Let's say this fruitions and is widely popular. Wouldn't that mean we would simply stop rearing cattle and poultry? Would that mean the species will go extinct? Now isn't that cruelty.
I imagine that, no matter how popular this gets, there will always be a market for real cows, pigs and chickens. It's just going to end up being a high end luxury market. A whole animal for roasting is something that will never be able to made in a lab. Also from what I understand this process produces fairly homogeneous meat, meaning you're probably going to need a real animal to make more interesting cuts, or 'bi-products' like heart, marrow and liver. Combine that with the fact that there will probably also always be a market for real leather (which will also become a high end luxury product) and I can see cows being reared for a long time after this process becomes wildly popular .
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#80Hypothetical question. Let's say this fruitions and is widely popular. Wouldn't that mean we would simply stop rearing cattle and poultry? Would that mean the species will go extinct? Now isn't that cruelty.
I imagine that there would continue to be the equivalent of "rare breeds" farms if this ever took off.