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Wouldn't the quality of lab grown meat be better? You can clone the cells of the tastiest cow, grow them in perfect conditions, and guarantee that the meat has
by ggreer 6y ago
Wouldn't the quality of lab grown meat be better? You can clone the cells of the tastiest cow, grow them in perfect conditions, and guarantee that the meat has zero pathogens (allowing it to be eaten raw).
- rootusrootus 6y agoThe lab grown meat is just a single cell type at this point, correct? A perfectly lean mono-steak would be awful. Until the lab can figure out other basic things like how to grow fat and then get it marbled through the steak, we're a ways off from getting lab steaks that anyone wants to eat.
- numpad0 6y ago> grow them in perfect conditions Sci-Fi reader part of myself wonder if there could be some information theory aspect to a perfect-mess of meat, that the food must grow within a context relevant to the consumer, i.e. a perfect piece of meat or a carrot from 100 years in the future or past is not perfect to us in present.
- cjonas 6y agoSeems like a lot of effort to recreate a mechanism that nature has already perfected. The tastiest protein comes from animals that have natural lives and diets. I'm not convinced a lab can truly compete with the efficiency of the natural process (at least in our lifetime). We just need to consume less and go back to more natural production of what we do eat.