I will eat the toe meat off a cow that was fed chicken shit its whole life but I draw the line at cells in a sterile environment.
I can already see 20 years in the future, when China is doing the fucking best lab-grown steak the human specie have ever taste, supplying the world with cheap, nutritious and sustainable meat while the US cry about how they are "overflowing" the market.
Don't hold your breath. Lab grown meat is a pipedream that serves only venture capitalists. Just eat fucking beans.
You can already eat lab grown meat in certain restaurants in China. Do you really think it’s going to stop being developed on? This is the same society that made caviar available to the masses.
In the west maybe, but the technology is emergent and there's capacity for development, it's not like it's fusion tech
East Asia seems to be the place it will overcome the engineering hurdles and go to scale
I understand your doubt, it's not unfounded. It is informed by the status quo of capitalists overselling and underdelivering on every single innovation or technology.
However, I believe it's not a pipe dream to serve venture capitalists, it's a pipe dream because of venture capitalists. Think what we can achieve if we didn't have to cut corners to please shareholders, if every technique and breakthrough wasn't trademarked or patented so they may be improved by others, if the end goal is to service the people and not make very few people very wealthy.
It is a pipe dream because they are trying to get you to fund a ladder they can use to climb to wealth and pull up after them.
But it is possible, and if anything, it's more realistic than converting the average person to go vegan, esp with the reactionaries that will go out of their way to consume more meat out of spite.
Telling China to eat beans is like telling Americans to consume high fructose corn syrup. We put beans in everything. I'd wager the vast majority of the 1.4 billion population has some form of mung or soy bean product daily. The word "soy" is one of the few English words with its etymology tracing back to ancient Chinese, meaning "salted bean(s)".
Soy beans are literally native to China and we have to import double what we produce.
They already have the best lab grown meat, theyre using it mostly for egg whites and pig skins right now (both are used a lot in traditional chinese cooking, egg whites in particular look very promising because they have their own 'immune' defense re: lysozymes, ovomucoids, innate ph balancers, etc.), though a lot of restaurants in hong kong serve chicken
lysozymes can also be found in milk, and there has been some interesting developments in lab grown milk production using the same process that makes insulin. this would be useful for human milk too for mothers that have breastfeeding issues, human milk in general is very unique and has extremely high lysozyme counts which makes it a good candidate. personally i really hope lab grown dairy takes off, a lot of vegan cheeses taste like ass
really hope lab grown dairy takes off, a lot of vegan cheeses taste like ass
Unironically I think this is one of the biggest obstacles preventing white people from becoming vegan. Most people in my country will have a dairy product in at least one meal a day. Sunflower substitute don't taste the same as butter or cheese and aren't really a substitute, they're just a different ingredient entirely.
Yet another meat wave.
Extremely rare China L, just eat plants.
Genocide John getting furious at the idea of any creature not dying.
It pains me to agree
that slop
I won't eat this pink slime, I only eat pink slime from the finest Tyson slaughterhouses
Pretty bold for an american to talk shit about slop at all
It's just not the same if the animal hasn't lived a life of suffering.
pains me deeply
lmao no it doesn't, shut up you fuckin loser
The carnists are never okay.
My sustenance requires torture 🙄
Is it a coincidence that Manchin is retiring and this guy is coming out of pocket? Looks like we found our new rotating villain
I was thinking basically the same thing the other day. He's gonna end up like Manchin, Sinema, and Lieberman before him.
You WILL live in an apartment. You WILL eat the lab grown meat. You WILL put your kid on puberty blockers. You WILL take public transit. You WILL help raise the creche.
good lord do I want to force people to do these things
I want lab grown meat. It's been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid to taste mammoth.
No vatmeat ever gave me prion disease
They say this and then they bleach your chicken
just a small puff of ammonia sir
You can get non-bleached by buying organic ($22 a pound and definitely not in 100% compliance with organic standards)
Just register as a Republican fucking goul. Tech is also probably how we are going to 3D print viable organs so we don't need to worry about waitlists for transplants and shit.
Democrats are sprinting to the right, and people like fetterman provide cover
”The slop I serve my children is made by real animal abusing Americans!”
Eh it's fine. If lab grown meat ever becomes practical then China will just do it and leave us behind, and all I can say is good luck!
if they pull of cheap abundant energy they will probalbly pull it off. just need to dump super inefficient (compared to an animal) energy into growing feedstock and running bio-reactors
I’m just thinking about how slaughterhouse workers literally get PTSD from their jobs, rn.
Capitalism breeds innovation Ethical lab meat and TikTok?
NO NOT LIKE THAT
These people realize that the “American” ranchers and farmers are illegal migrants and children and sometimes illegal migrant children, right? They don’t actually think every American farmer is the one from the honest work meme, right? They want their meat and eat it too lol
The farms, the slaughterhouses, the packing plants - our whole agricultural industry is propped up by subsidies and undocumented labor, if it were Americans making minimum wage and selling at market rate a single burger would be like $30.
It’s wild watching the trump mannerisms be exhibited by people like fetterman.
So much for the free market, because God forbid we make organic meat easy to supply and affordable to the masses.
