Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says • Hacker News Board

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by RustLove » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:45 PM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #20

lzooz wrote: post #2

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Thanks to this technology, if you could reliably find his DNA, then the blood/body of Christ could be served as the first course in a formal Italian meal, an ante-Christ if you will.

Can't you visit any Church after communion and gather some wine and wafer post-transubstantiation?

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by pugworthy » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:45 PM UTC

You might argue that people will just eat whatever because they don't care what's in it, but there are definitely boundaries for that in some societies.

Case in point, bugs are safe to eat, but people in some cultures just can't even imagine doing so because... bugs! McDonald's Chitin McBuggits will never be a thing.

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by hobbitstan » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

The FDA also states that regular meat is safe to eat, despite it being long proven to cause all types of diseases from cancer to diabetes. I’ll pass.

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by hanniabu » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Curious how this will affect the gut microbiome. That's my biggest concern with this.

And no, this concern doesn't mean I'm fine with cows being pumped with growth hormones and antibiotics.

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by nuc1e0n » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Safe yes, but also bland and with no texture. It needs more umami flavour and fibrous texture. They should mix it with Marmite and celery.

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by ben_w » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Retric wrote: post #28

CharlieDigital wrote: post #7

> ...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.

> lab grown meat doesn’t

I'm so not a biologist, so: why would that be harder than also lab growing the bit of their bodies which makes the various immune cells?

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by jonathanoliver » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Lab grown? That's beyond impossible.

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by fnordpiglet » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

I for one welcome our lab grown meat overlords.

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by mmiyer » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

Gordonjcp wrote: post #13

rdtwo wrote: post #8

Yeah 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

Or consuming terrifying amounts of energy and resources, when you can put a cow in a field until it's big enough to eat.

97%[0] of cows are finished on feedlots, i.e. get a substantial amount of calories from corn and other feed. Other animals like pigs are exclusively fed feed. Animal factory farming already consumes a terrifying amount of resources, using up a lot of the plant agriculture that we do.

[0] https://littlecreekmontana.shop/blogs/ranch-blog/food-for-th...

Re: Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Post by DoctorOW » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

roflyear wrote: post #26

lzooz wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 ...

I've yet to see a satisfying solution to the hyperpolarization of previously neutral spaces. HN is the gold standard in moderation IMO but still isn't immune.