China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel • Hacker News Board

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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Post by onion2k » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 10:48 PM UTC

orliesaurus wrote: post #4

I remember when the first lab meat burger patty was announced it was like $300K to produce. There aren't long term studies into what lab produced meat means for the human body right? It's pretty new and very niche still - but knowing how China has "very loose rules" on these kind of topixs (I'm no expert in policies but it does feel like that), this looks like a great move to speed up (by injecting a lot of capital i…

There aren't long term studies into what lab produced meat means for the human body right?

Would that be necessary? It's chemically identical to what's grown in a cow. The only difference is that it's grown in a vat. If anything it's better because farmers give all manner of hormones and antibiotics to cows that you don't need in a vat.

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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Post by Const-me » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 11:00 PM UTC

wollstonecraft wrote: post #15

That cultured tissue is going to be loaded with antibiotics from the medium.

You can sterilize liquids without antibiotics, very cheap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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Post by JoshMnem » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 11:09 PM UTC

I think that edible insects would be a better protein route than lab-grown meats. It would require a cultural shift in some places, but probably not as large of one as people think. (Lobsters were considered inedible until relatively recently.)

Lab-grown meat seems like an over-engineered solution to a problem that might not be that difficult to solve in simpler, probably-healthier ways.

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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Post by wollstonecraft » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 12:11 AM UTC

Const-me wrote: post #22

wollstonecraft wrote: post #15

That cultured tissue is going to be loaded with antibiotics from the medium.

You can sterilize liquids without antibiotics, very cheap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization

Yes, we know about autoclaves. But aseptic cell culture without antibiotics?

Re: China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

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Post by Const-me » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 1:06 AM UTC

wollstonecraft wrote: post #24

Const-me wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can sterilize liquids without antibiotics, very cheap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization

Yes, we know about autoclaves. But aseptic cell culture without antibiotics?

Because enclosed environment. Many industrial processes work the same way, e.g. unwanted microflora can destroy a whole batch of beer, yet people don’t add antibiotics to beer.

Here’s a link that specifically tells the meat (at some other company, but still) is grown without antibiotics: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/lab-g...