I’m thinking they get a way bigger margin with this buy and they do not need to declare that to the consumers, huge win for retailers. You wouldn’t be able to pull this off in the US without major buyer bewares.
I have little background about the cultured meat, and this link made me curious: wouldn't cancer cells be good candidate cells for creating this type of meat?
"good" steak, for instance is marbled. i'm not sure how you can get that with uncontrolled growth of one type of tissue. best case scenario you grow a huge chunk of cancerous muscle, and grind it with fat to make ground beef.
i'm not sure what the point of that is. not sure about everyone else, but the main motivation for eating meat is that it tastes good. without fat, 100% muscle would be very dry/tough. you might as well eat tofu.
Tumours are typically poorly organised tissues with areas of dead cells (necrosis) and very fibrous reactions from surrounding tissue (desmoplastic reaction). A steak made out of a large tumour would look patchy, and have areas of cheesy looking dead tissue that will belch yellow goo when you touch it. It will also be very chewy. Additionally, most cancers develop in tissues that are the equivalent of the gizzards, whereas most human meat consumption is muscle tissue.
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 in research and operations) the insertion of lab produced meat into the market. Is this good? Well at least no animals will be harmed in the process - other than "human animals" who will be buying it eventually
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.
This title is misleading (no one has spent a dollar as far as I can tell) and the article gets several facts wrong. For instance, it says "Meat The Future" is a clean meat company when in fact it's a sort of marketing and design group. There is no way China could buy meat from them. Poorly researched clickbait.
Meat The Future has (or at least used to have) a small lab in Manchester, UK with a dozen or so chemical engineers. I tasted their "meat" last August it was god awful ...
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.
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.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 48.3 ms ] threadI guess this is a bad time to say I love tofu?
I'm more concerned whether or not it's technologically possible without health risks.
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 in research and operations) the insertion of lab produced meat into the market. Is this good? Well at least no animals will be harmed in the process - other than "human animals" who will be buying it eventually
I'd love to see meat that is better for the environment and does away with the ethical concerns of pig, chicken and cow farms.
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.
And there is one company: https://www.supermeat.com/ and two other which seems to be the same org labeled as non-profit or startup: https://www.futuremeat.org/
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...
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.