Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
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Re: Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
#2What are the cells for the burger fed on? In tissue culture it's normal to feed cells Foetal Bovine Serum. Is this the case with these cells? If so we haven't fully removed the need for living, breathing animals from the equation.
Re: Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
#3Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6159743
Re: Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
#4What are the cells for the burger fed on? In tissue culture it's normal to feed cells Foetal Bovine Serum. Is this the case with these cells? If so we haven't fully removed the need for living, breathing animals from the equation.
During the Q&A session of the press event, I think he did mention that they used Fetal bovine serum, and that it worked better than the alternatives.
Re: Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
#5What are the cells for the burger fed on? In tissue culture it's normal to feed cells Foetal Bovine Serum. Is this the case with these cells? If so we haven't fully removed the need for living, breathing animals from the equation.
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Re: Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
#6What are the cells for the burger fed on? In tissue culture it's normal to feed cells Foetal Bovine Serum. Is this the case with these cells? If so we haven't fully removed the need for living, breathing animals from the equation.
maybe this is not the objective, rather having a more efficient way to produce meat, you're taking out of the equation the farm, meaning less space used, maybe healthier meat (without all the antibiotics and less fat)
from one cow you can produce 10 tons of meat without all the space needed not only to raise the cows, but to grow their food, the lab can also be closer to consumers having obvious implications on that.
Re: Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
#7What are the cells for the burger fed on? In tissue culture it's normal to feed cells Foetal Bovine Serum. Is this the case with these cells? If so we haven't fully removed the need for living, breathing animals from the equation.
maybe this is not the objective, rather having a more efficient way to produce meat, you're taking out of the equation the farm, meaning less space used, maybe healthier meat (without all the antibiotics and less fat) from one cow you can produce 10 tons of meat without all the space needed not only to raise the cows, but to grow their food, the lab can also be closer to consumers having obvious implications on that.
fat is good for you. more fat please
Re: Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
#8...And what happens when we no longer need cows? It's not going to be happy fun time for the species, because as soon as there's not a reason to breed them then we'll have a few cows kicking around in zoos and that's it.
Good for the environment, possibly, but bad for the species.
Re: Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
#9It seems like this is all for solving the wrong problem. Why isn't there a shift away from the perceived need for more meat.
Re: Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger
#10The real cool thing is that they are making great advertising to stem cells, by doing something that has a very positive ethical connotation (which is the typical argument against using stem cell in medicine).