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Yeah - the micronutrient claim does make sense on the surface. However, the claim is wildly simplistic. We get tons of different micronutrients from tons of sou

Yeah - the micronutrient claim does make sense on the surface. However, the claim is wildly simplistic. We get tons of different micronutrients from tons of sources. If OP were correct, vegans wouldn't be able to survive. Vegetarians wouldn't be able to survive. Basically everything we need in terms of nutrients (micro and macro) can be found in non-meat food products. Wherever a non-meat diet falls short of the needed micronutrients, multivitamins can be added to make up any deficiencies. Again, see vegans. Finally, lab grown meat IS meat. Our bodies can break down and harvest any micronutrients grown into the meat. Furthermore, as developments are made, it's naive to assume the companies producing the lab grown meat won't attempt to add anything important which might be missing. There's also precedent in the food industry for adding nutrients to food staples - white rice in America is legally required to be enriched. This point also confirms OPs concern is worth thinking about to begin with - the rice nutrient deficiency has caused epidemics in Asia. However, this problem has largely been solved. Finally, OPs rant seems to start from an adversarial position. The arguments put forward seem to be in bad faith, as they are mostly distilled with minor research on lab-grown meat.

OneGuy123 6y ago
You are one of the people I was talking about: you belive you can just add a few vitamins and minerals here and there and call it a day: that is not how it works! Example: vitamin C in supplements is only ascorbic acid. But the real vitamin C is a "complex" and contains multiple other vitamins INSIDE of it+ stuff surrounding the complex. You cannot break down meat into minerals and vitamins if they don't have them in the first place.
- bun_at_work 6y ago
  You fundamentally misunderstand my point. I'm saying you can add those in to your diet, not meat. I'm not claiming we need to inject these missing nutrients into the meat, and I'm not claiming that our body manufactures them from sources where they are absent. But your implication here is that humans eat only one type of meat from an animal that provides all nutrients we need. That's not true, and it's stupid to think that. You really need to try to understand the science of this topic because you're out of your depth, clearly. Stop putting words in peoples' mouths.

OneGuy123 6y ago

You are one of the people I was talking about: you belive you can just add a few vitamins and minerals here and there and call it a day: that is not how it works! Example: vitamin C in supplements is only ascorbic acid. But the real vitamin C is a "complex" and contains multiple other vitamins INSIDE of it+ stuff surrounding the complex. You cannot break down meat into minerals and vitamins if they don't have them in the first place.

bun_at_work 6y ago
You fundamentally misunderstand my point. I'm saying you can add those in to your diet, not meat. I'm not claiming we need to inject these missing nutrients into the meat, and I'm not claiming that our body manufactures them from sources where they are absent. But your implication here is that humans eat only one type of meat from an animal that provides all nutrients we need. That's not true, and it's stupid to think that. You really need to try to understand the science of this topic because you're out of your depth, clearly. Stop putting words in peoples' mouths.