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It's unclear what methods they're using to make these burgers, but often you need many animal-derived products to culture cells. Fetal bovine serum, growth medi
by entee 10y ago
It's unclear what methods they're using to make these burgers, but often you need many animal-derived products to culture cells. Fetal bovine serum, growth media, all of these have animal products in them. If they make an ethical argument, then they'll have to solve that too. They might have, but it's not clear in the article.
- truth_sentinell 10y agoI saw in a documentary that with only a sample of the skin they can grow like 10k burguers, and the animal won't even notice, it's like an injection. I don't remember the doc but it seems pretty ethical IMO.
- _Wintermute 10y agoIt's not just the initial cells, the growth medium contains a lot of animal products - even culturing human cells for research uses lots of bovine products.