Ready to eat cultured animal cell lines?

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  • @Boogie
    That was an interesting article. I feel so excited that initiatives like this are now moving beyond the laboratory!

    @Leorning Cniht
    The price of production is of course going to be a major issue. I hope & pray that eventually costs will lower enough to make it an alternative to using factory farmed animals.
  • I think it would be better if instead of using other animals to grow the different varieties of meat, we just used some of our own cells. I am prepared to donate some tummy fat, if that type proves useful.
  • Simon Toad wrote: »
    I think it would be better if instead of using other animals to grow the different varieties of meat, we just used some of our own cells. I am prepared to donate some tummy fat, if that type proves useful.

    The practical issue with human meat is increased risk of disease transmission.
  • Yeah if mad cow disease is any indication, cannibalism is probably not a great idea.
  • It can also cause communication issues, I suppose.
  • orfeoorfeo Shipmate
    edited December 2020
    mousethief wrote: »
    Why would it take 100 years?

    I very much doubt it will. Almost all of the modern industrial food system didn't exist 100 years ago, and a lot of it is far younger.

    Plus this whole notion of 'holdouts' lasting 100 years also doesn't make sense. Not unless lifespans increase greatly. Once you have a generation born after a new system exists, the new system becomes their new normal.

    The availability of new products changes radically within 10 years, not 100.

    EDIT: And heck, the percentage of the population in Western countries who are vegetarian has absolutely skyrocketed.
  • Over the last few years I've significantly reduced my red meat consumption, replacing beef and lamb with chicken and pork, and my overall meat consumption with a couple of main meals a week meat-free.

    I also have significantly reduced the amount of meat I eat - maybe eat it twice a week or so.

    In terms of which meat, however, I am actually trying to eat a lot less chicken. Because, a principle that is important to me is “do least harm”. We all harm creation and cause suffering to nature by our existence (whatever we eat) and obviously environmental impact is part of that. But in terms of individual animals, for the same volume of meat you’re going to be killing tens of chickens compared to one cow. So I’d rather one animal was killed than many, which is a lot more net suffering. The conditions chickens are often kept in is also not great, so if I do eat chicken I make sure it’s five times the price / had a nicer life.
  • Merry Vole wrote: »
    'chicken bites' from cultured meat have recently been given approval for commercial sale by the Singapore Food Agency.
    Other types of tissue engineered animal muscle and fat etc are being developed with the possibility of far less enviromental impact compared to farming and fishing, as well no cruelty to real animals.
    But I think that with a healthy diet possible with a very small proportion of animal products (or maybe none at all) it is a solution looking for a problem.
    What do shipmates think?

    No, thank you ... However ... Since the food industry geniuses have worked very hard to bring out new*improved foods that are made entirely from plants, but look and taste like meat ... I predict ... that soon some company will being out food products that look and taste like carrots and broccoli and kale, but are actually made from 100% meat ...
  • I predict ... that soon some company will being out food products that look and taste like carrots and broccoli and kale, but are actually made from 100% meat ...

    Goodness - why on earth would anyone go to the trouble of making fake kale. You can hardly give the real stuff away.
  • My mother used to say that when she was a child, making Cock-a-Leekie soup involved paying a lot for the chicken and virtually nothing for the leeks, but later it became the other way round ....
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