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#22> ...the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will need to inspect the company’s production facilities and product While I'm not undercutting the work that the USDA places into regulating consumer safety in the food supply chain, isn't it crazy to think that lab-grown meats are probably going to be under higher scrutiny from a food safety perspective than farm grown and butchered meats?
I think so, yeah. It isn't crazy b.c that is how lobbying works in the US, but it is crazy b.c you'd expect a lab to be better defacto than a slaughterhouse.
>you'd expect a lab to be better defacto than a slaughterhouse
That worked well in Wuhan
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#23Going to be great to see people make up reasons not to eat this, when they are fine with all the crap that goes into a cow to keep it healthy and alive long enough to slaughter. Nevermind the crazy chemicals used for milk processing! You may think, oh - we've been eating that for a while, right? No, not really. It's just about as new as obesity and other modern epidemics we've been dealing with ...
> when they are fine with all the crap that goes into a cow to keep it healthy and alive long enough to slaughter What, like grass and sugar beet pulp?
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#24> ...the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will need to inspect the company’s production facilities and product While I'm not undercutting the work that the USDA places into regulating consumer safety in the food supply chain, isn't it crazy to think that lab-grown meats are probably going to be under higher scrutiny from a food safety perspective than farm grown and butchered meats?
Nah, considering one has well understood risks and has been practiced for thousands of years, while the other approach is brand new, I think it's reasonable. It can also be a selling point for lab-grown meat, the fact that it is safer and free of bacteria.
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#25If someone cloned some mammoth or giant sloth cells and grew them, I'd be interested in tasting what my prehistoric ancestors got to eat.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think so, yeah. It isn't crazy b.c that is how lobbying works in the US, but it is crazy b.c you'd expect a lab to be better defacto than a slaughterhouse.
>you'd expect a lab to be better defacto than a slaughterhouse That worked well in Wuhan
Lately going on HN is like walking into my local gun shop ...
Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says
#27> ...the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will need to inspect the company’s production facilities and product While I'm not undercutting the work that the USDA places into regulating consumer safety in the food supply chain, isn't it crazy to think that lab-grown meats are probably going to be under higher scrutiny from a food safety perspective than farm grown and butchered meats?
Nah, considering one has well understood risks and has been practiced for thousands of years, while the other approach is brand new, I think it's reasonable. It can also be a selling point for lab-grown meat, the fact that it is safer and free of bacteria.
Our modern way of raising animals for slaughter is just that - modern. Not thousands of years. We have not been pumping steroids into the meat we eat for thousands of years.
We give our food substances that fatten them up as quickly as possible, and we're surprised we're getting fat.
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#28> ...the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will need to inspect the company’s production facilities and product While I'm not undercutting the work that the USDA places into regulating consumer safety in the food supply chain, isn't it crazy to think that lab-grown meats are probably going to be under higher scrutiny from a food safety perspective than farm grown and butchered meats?
From a certain point of view lab grown meat is a high risk yolo solution.
Animals have a highly effective immune system pumping out hunter killer nano bots to actively fight off invasive microorganisms, lab grown meat doesn’t. Similarly it’s far easier to tell of an animal is extremely infected.
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#29Going to be great to see people make up reasons not to eat this, when they are fine with all the crap that goes into a cow to keep it healthy and alive long enough to slaughter. Nevermind the crazy chemicals used for milk processing! You may think, oh - we've been eating that for a while, right? No, not really. It's just about as new as obesity and other modern epidemics we've been dealing with ...
> when they are fine with all the crap that goes into a cow to keep it healthy and alive long enough to slaughter What, like grass and sugar beet pulp?
I think the concern is feeding them other cows, growth hormones, and antibiotics to make them put weight on faster.
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#30Yeah I’m going to let other folks experiment with that for 10 or so years and see where it goes. I’m sure the meat is fine, it’s just a matter of not contaminating it during the process that I’m concerned about. The FDA is really poor at enforcing the health and safety aspects of manufacturing and processing. They simply don’t have enough inspectors and the inspectors don’t fine big offenders enough
They’d be bad enough at it without presidential malfeasance https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1055451