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

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Post by rglover » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 10:30 PM UTC

za3faran wrote: post #480

rglover wrote: post #411

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For context, why I added "seed oils" in there. Once I saw the difference between Canola Oil (what I used the most up until I learned) production [1] and Olive Oil production [2], I never went back. For those interested, I also use tallow and coconut oil. I found/find it deeply disturbing that they say stuff like Canola is "healthy" when the production process sounds/looks like something you'd expect to describe the p…

I hear avocado oil is supposed to be good as well. What are your thoughts on butter/ghee?

Depends on the flavor I'm going for but I use butter often, too. Ghee I've only tried a few times as a play/test so no real opinion on it.

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

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Post by orestarod » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:05 AM UTC

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That's honestly highly unlikely. These animals consume the same products the vegan alternatives are made with... for months or years, depending on the animal. It might be true in places without massive animal farms, but that's usually connected to more human attention which would make it even more unlikely.

> These animals consume the same products the vegan alternatives are made with... How many people are living off of grass?

That animals convert grass and plants in general to meat is undeniable. But I think the issue is, livestock is generally fed with human grown plants, which could be fed directly to humans and save a lot of energy (food and water) wasted in the process, because the amount of calories, for example, that you take off meat is nowhere near the calories contained in the food the animal consumed during its lifetime. Now, regarding if nutrients are missing from a plants only diet, that's another matter.

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

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Post by orestarod » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:20 AM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #302

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If it was evolutionarily optimized, it most likely is not the most efficient way of doing something but it most certainly is the most resilient way. Potato blight? soon to be available for: meat!

> it most likely is not the most efficient way of doing something but it most certainly is the most resilient way For that purpose. Photosynthesis is horribly inefficient for any use other than making more plant.

What do you mean? Does a more efficient way of biologically using sun's energy exist?