I hope this propagates to the EU if it's truly safe. It's been more than a decade and I still miss meat when the weather gets cold.
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#32Yeah 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.
This is a nonsensical comment.
Culturing meat is entirely about minimizing resource and land usage, and curbing the serious environmental impacts of the beef industry, which is of course truly infamous for methane emissions and deforestation.
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#33It will be animal cells differentiated into muscle tissues on collagen scaffolds initially. The technology comes from attempts to grow functional organs (ie, liver) that are biocompatible in the body serum proper. If there aren't health effects from transplantation within the animal type you can probably eat the animal tissues just fine. It's the same thing. It's meat. It's just without the animal suffering. And hopefully it'll eventually be cheaper than growing animals too.
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#34If someone cloned some mammoth or giant sloth cells and grew them, I'd be interested in tasting what my prehistoric ancestors got to eat.
I'm not sure muscles that haven't been "used" will taste the same as flesh that is grown and hasn't been out walking around. The texture is sure to be different.
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#35Yeah 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.
Imagine thinking modern factory farming is anything as simple as “putting a cow in a field”.
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#36Earlier 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
What reason do you theorize the USDA wasn't present in Wuhan?
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#37Great stuff, hope they found time for a longitudinal study as well!
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#38Safe to eat is not the same thing as healthy.
Further long term nutrition studies required
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#39Look forward to lab-grown burgers and steaks!
Me too. Aside from the environmental improvements, there's some pretty cool stuff they could in theory do with this tech. Making consistent, perfect cuts of meat with little waste. It's early days, but this is pretty promising tech and I'm excited to see where it goes.
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#40If someone cloned some mammoth or giant sloth cells and grew them, I'd be interested in tasting what my prehistoric ancestors got to eat.
Unfortunately I don't think that's possible because of the relatively short half-life of DNA.