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Here I am, back with your daily dose of banter on the blockchain and today. I thought I'd take a stab at the emergence of lab-grown meat. Cultured meat as they call it, (probably went to a good school in a white neighbourhood and shit) is meat produced by in vitro cultivation of animal cells, instead of from slaughtered animals.
This new form of cellular agriculture is straight out of a sci-fi movie but only it's real and this. cultured meat is produced using many of the same tissue engineering techniques traditionally used in regenerative medicine.
So basically, they take cells and replicate it until it turns into a nice juicy ass steak, so they just grow the parts you want to season and throw in a hot pan.
Forget farm to table its now lab to table
Labs across the world are now trying to refine the process and scale it to produce mass quantities for production and competition with traditional meat produce to subsidize the market and provide an alternative as well as a sustainable food source for the growing population but I highly doubt this will be the case.
This tech is marked as a way to end world hunger but we could have ended that years ago, we choose not to because it's not part of the current profit motive and synthetic meats will fall into the same category. Perhaps food will get cheaper over time but it will by no means reach the hands of the poor and needy any time soon, nor will it reduce the demand for traditional meat.
It will probably spark a new subculture and have an education drive until the fad dies out if they are able to reach commercial viability at any sort of scale.
Farming of the future
Where I really feel this tech will become helpful will be in combination with space travel, if you're able to grow your own produce and replicate it in labs you've just created a sustainable way to travel long distances away from the planet and even remain off the planet. Perhaps starting colonies in space, the moon, mars without having to plan so many refuelling missions saving a massive amount of money and improving our chances of becoming an inter-planetary species.
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What do you good people of steem think? Would you eat lab-grown meat? Do you think it will catch on? What does it do to the no meat/vegan debate?
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Let's see. I culture cells for my research and if somebody tells me to eat those cultures for food, will I? If I think about it, I don't get that kind of feeling for cells I am growing. I would hesitate a bit, maybe eat those cells only in apocalyptic scenario. But why this hesitation? Two reasons I would say
Now, when it will come to lab grown meat, I would at least be sure that they grew because they avoided contamination. I would be a little hesitant for antibiotics, yes. But I may eat it if it was approved after proper investigation by FDA.
Then yes it would be much more expensive than growing yeast for wine, or bacterial cultures used to produce any other stuff of human need. So making profit on it won't be very easy. You will need super clean rooms. Also they would need to assure at every step that cell line they are using to produce the meat has not been contaminated by mycoplasma or gotten unwanted genetic mutation. So factor in all that.
Finally, I don't know how is this super clean meat going to taste. Is it even worth it.
But there is one good thing. Unlike traditional meat which can get along with lit of worms and maladies if not cooked properly, lab meat would be much more reliable.
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You bring up a lot of fair points and im sure these are all issues they will struggle within improving the product and at the same time reducing the cost of it. I think eventually it will be produced by AI instead of having any human interaction to reduce cost and avoid contamination as far as possible.
If the tech improves and it becomes a viable option these companies will still need to do a lot of marketing to convince the public of its viability as a substitute. It will be a long road and a billions of dollars if they plan to make this work
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I don't quite know how I feel about this. I am on a quest to eat from nature, without chemicals and pesticides. I understand that lab grown meat is probably very sterile and clean, but I just don't think I could do it
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I don’t think I’d eat it if I had a choice maybe out of interest sake to try it our if I never knew it was lab made!
I’m pretty sure it will spark a wide debate once it becomes commercially viable! I don’t know that much about it but my rule of thumb is anything that is from big corporate is never in your best interests
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What I find interesting is that imitation meat is getting a lot closer to taste like real meat. I wouldn't be surprised if we advanced way beyond having to grow cells in labs. Have you tried impossible burger?
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That is pretty interesting I have a feeling that eventually it will get to a point where they could just 3D print the ingredients we want at a fraction of the costs!
No I have not had an impossible burger I don’t think the fad has reached South Africa yet! I think making a decent fake burger will be the holy grail for fast food companies
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If it's good enough to replace a tissue in your body, it's good enough to eat!
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Ah my first pro lab meat comment you make a fair point. I feel the tech is far better suited to medicine than consumer goods! Since it’s more a personalised thing when companies start to produce it at scale it’s about profit margins and cutting corners and the product becomes tainted by for profit decisions! But let’s wait and see how it unfolds
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Absolutely not. With how everything synthetic and lab produced ends up being: BAD for human bodies. It always ends up being short cuts taken to maximize profits, insufficient testing, and outright lies. Many diseases and cancers are caused by this shotty science. I trust them as little as I trust the government.
If more people adopted a mostly vegetarian diet and only ate meat once or twice a week it could be much more sustainable than it is now.
For me, eating meat is a bit of a treat; I don’t eat it every day, I only eat it as part of a multi day meal. I make it one day then incorporate it into lunch for a few days so it’s not large portions.
One other thing I’m also thinking of now that I’m writing this: many people already eat lab grown meat, it’s just not called that yet officially. The American government and I think China too, allow the use of pink slime in ground meat. This concoction is disgusting but pretty much lab meat. Have you heard of it?
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I agree and we're seeing people move to a more meat conservative diet be it via some misinformation I still don't mind because its for the greater good in a way.
Meat here is still pretty cheap so you can eat it regularly without breaking the budget to have proper meat so I can't say I personally feel it just yet but I'm sure its coming.
Yes I have seen the pink slime videos its been used by quite a few fast food chains. After I saw that and the things factory farming does I feel like food needs the same sort of labelling cigarettes have where people need to be told excessively the damaging effects of long term use. I actually was doing my masters on that before I dropped out lol
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Wahahaha... I saw a report on that Lab Meat the other night. I do not think that I would ever eat such invention. I would rather eat veggies before I would resort to such synthetic thing.Sorry!
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I was reading about it and technically it wouldn’t be so much synthetic! The process for sure but the end product would be the same just a bunch of cells, but I’m
With you on that! I think a little extra greens in your diet never hurt anyone lol
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Yeah, but it´s the cell that has been cloned and to think of that process I am not so sure I would prefer that it´s growing in a glass.... What about you, will you like to have such lab meat?
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Honestly I don’t think I’m that desperate to eat meat that I would go out of my way for it like that! I feel like it’s a better lesson to live without something! You’ll value and enjoy it more when you get the chance then
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I would NEVER do so..
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Lol I think A LOT of people are feeling that way, just seems way to freaky
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Yeah bro. But btw, in my personal opinio, eating dead animals is freaky, too. Somehow.
I hope you understand what I am trying to say :-)
Nice article dude, thanks for sharing!
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