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>If we can centralise the production of meat Sounds like a huge disease risk.
by dilemma 10y ago
>If we can centralise the production of meat
Sounds like a huge disease risk.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoYou should tour a factory farming operation. Lab grown meat could be as safe as vaccine production; both done in controlled, sterile environments. EDIT: Seriously though, don't do the tour if you ever want to eat meat again. Doubly so for walking a slaughterhouse floor. There are some things you cannot unsee.
- bronson 10y agoI can't upvote this enough. If you're worried about disease, you do not want to see where your meat comes from. There's no way lab meat could ever come close to this scale of filth. (not talking about $50/lb locally slaughtered meat of course)
- dilemma 10y agoI don't doubt that the factory is going to be a grim sight. I was more thinking about the centralization aspect, which would cause massive damage if the lab covering an entire state or country was contaminated.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoMy point was that they're both centralized, but you have far more control over a lab setting (http://i.imgur.com/KW1LrLg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/KW1LrLg.jpg) than something like this: http://i.imgur.com/SDUbUBQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SDUbUBQ.jpg
- Retric 10y agoA factory is not going to produce a states worth of meat. Possibly a small city's worth, but Americans eat 1 billion pounds of meat per year an this stuff is going to take at least hours if not weeks to grow.
- Hupriene 10y agoI think you are off by quite a bit on how much meat Americans eat. 214.8 lbs per capita per annum * 318 million people = ~68 billion lbs per annum See: http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/statistics/per-capita-consumption-of-poultry-and-livestock-1965-to-estimated-2012-in-pounds/ http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/sta...
- Retric 10y agoThere are 50 states. So, a states worth of meat should be around a billion pounds. Granted, some states have a relatively tiny population.
- lisivka 10y agoEvery farm animal has vaccine production built-in, so it does not matter.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoThis is not true. They can produce their own antibodies, but will still become infected.
- lisivka 10y agoMost of these infections are easy to detect and cure with vitamins and antibiotics. For billions of lbs of meat consumed monthly in USA, how often this is the problem? Diseases are not a (massive) problem when animals already have quite effective immune system.