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I think, in my life, I'll see mass-produced artificially grown meat become indistinguishable (cooking-and-eating-wise) from regular meat. Maybe they'll even tas

I think, in my life, I'll see mass-produced artificially grown meat become indistinguishable (cooking-and-eating-wise) from regular meat. Maybe they'll even taste better than regular meat, by controlling the skin/fat/muscle distribution. The current technology isn't there, yet. But it looks like that it's actually going to be feasible in the next few decades. I'm no biologist or environmental scientist. To my naive understanding, it's going to be a good thing. It means that we'll meddle with the animals less, reduce the environmental impact, and also make high-quality, fresh meat more accessible. No more Chef Ramsay proffering a piece of filet mignon and saying, "Now, this, is the Rolls-Royce of steak".

simcop2387 6y ago
Not sure about the skin part, but the fat and muscle part is absolutely going to be doable right now. All you'd need to do is take the meat and lay it out with some meat glue to create the distribution you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oSqI4jnTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oSqI4jnTM
- klipt 6y ago
  Yes but, once you've introduced pathogens to the inside by slicing it up and gluing it back together, it's not longer safe to cook the inside rare like you can with a whole piece.
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bassman9000 6y ago
high-quality, fresh meat more accessible We're still arguing if GMOs will be toxic to humans in the long term, and now we want to grow a whole chunk of animal in a lab, and proclaim nothing's wrong with it?
- saagarjha 6y ago
  Many people are not arguing that.
mleonhard 6y ago
Lab-grown meat should use less antibiotics. This will reduce the rate of development of new antibiotic-resistant bacteria like MRSA. And lab-grown meat should also use fewer hormones, reducing human intake of animal hormones. Lab-produced milk will be another important product. Our species is slowly entering the bio-tech stage. How will daily life change? I predict engineered mites that clean your home at night, consuming or carrying away every speck of dust. They will clean furniture, beds, pillows, and mattresses. By out-competing common dust mites, they will prevent many cases of childhood asthma. Large-scale deployment of mites will collect pollution dust from cities. They will remove the metal nanoparticles from vehicle brakes that trigger asthma in children who grow up near highways. They will collect the persistent lead dust that accumulated in cities while leaded gasoline was in use, reducing childhood exposure to lead thereby boosting intelligence and reducing crime for the next generation. They will remove the microplastics that steadily fall from our synthetic clothing, food packaging, equipment, carpets, and building materials. The health problems of microplastics are still unknown. They may be the cause of declining male fertility. Instead of complaining about vaccines and 5G, ignorant people will complain about the pheromones used to control mites. They'll say things like, "I'm sick because of the pheromones!" as the mites remove pollution that actually would make them sick. Clothing fibers will be grown in a lab. Cashmere will become nearly as cheap as nylon. Once you've worn a cashmere outfit, cotton will feel like something a caveman would wear. Washing machines will have different enzyme options for different kinds of materials. For example, you will buy clothes made with fiber X and use detergent X which dissolves everything except fiber X. Washers won't need heat or mechanical abrasion, so clothes can last longer or be made more cheaply while still lasting long enough. No more brushing, just chew a dental candy once a day. It has bacteria that consumes plaque & tartar and viruses that kill acid-producing mouth bacteria. Dynamic balancing of intestinal fauna will solve a myriad of undiagnosed chronic health problems. Also no more farts. I also predict a pill that will make feces emerge as small smooth fragrance-free pebbles. Paper consumption will plummet, but that won't affect the environment because paper fibers will already be grown in a vat, using sugars made by algae. Sugar is the feedstock of the world's industry. Algeria becomes the world's leading producer of sugar. Climate change is reversed by the adoption of a sugar-based concrete. Data storage will become DNA-based. All of Google's data will fit in a drop of DNA preservative. Copying data will be cheap. But reading is slow, with throughput scaling with the number of reader chips. Data theft is done with mosquito drones that literally suck data juice. Surveillance is done with "tick" robots that record their sensor data to a DNA sac. Humans will find an ancient DNA-based data archive in a colony of sea creatures in a deep sea trench. It contains a copy of Wikipedia from a civilization that evolved from squid many millions of years ago. They reached bio-tech stage and then disappeared completely. We prepare our own data archive...
lumberingjack 6y ago
The manufacturing process is so costly normal production of meat is always going to be a better option for like the next 200 years. This is just virtue signaling BS for those who want to feel morally righteous
- umvi 6y ago
  It's costly, but some people are willing to pay the cost, so there could be a viable market for it.

simcop2387 6y ago

Not sure about the skin part, but the fat and muscle part is absolutely going to be doable right now. All you'd need to do is take the meat and lay it out with some meat glue to create the distribution you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oSqI4jnTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oSqI4jnTM

klipt 6y ago
Yes but, once you've introduced pathogens to the inside by slicing it up and gluing it back together, it's not longer safe to cook the inside rare like you can with a whole piece.

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bassman9000 6y ago

high-quality, fresh meat more accessible We're still arguing if GMOs will be toxic to humans in the long term, and now we want to grow a whole chunk of animal in a lab, and proclaim nothing's wrong with it?

saagarjha 6y ago
Many people are not arguing that.

mleonhard 6y ago

Lab-grown meat should use less antibiotics. This will reduce the rate of development of new antibiotic-resistant bacteria like MRSA. And lab-grown meat should also use fewer hormones, reducing human intake of animal hormones. Lab-produced milk will be another important product. Our species is slowly entering the bio-tech stage. How will daily life change? I predict engineered mites that clean your home at night, consuming or carrying away every speck of dust. They will clean furniture, beds, pillows, and mattresses. By out-competing common dust mites, they will prevent many cases of childhood asthma. Large-scale deployment of mites will collect pollution dust from cities. They will remove the metal nanoparticles from vehicle brakes that trigger asthma in children who grow up near highways. They will collect the persistent lead dust that accumulated in cities while leaded gasoline was in use, reducing childhood exposure to lead thereby boosting intelligence and reducing crime for the next generation. They will remove the microplastics that steadily fall from our synthetic clothing, food packaging, equipment, carpets, and building materials. The health problems of microplastics are still unknown. They may be the cause of declining male fertility. Instead of complaining about vaccines and 5G, ignorant people will complain about the pheromones used to control mites. They'll say things like, "I'm sick because of the pheromones!" as the mites remove pollution that actually would make them sick. Clothing fibers will be grown in a lab. Cashmere will become nearly as cheap as nylon. Once you've worn a cashmere outfit, cotton will feel like something a caveman would wear. Washing machines will have different enzyme options for different kinds of materials. For example, you will buy clothes made with fiber X and use detergent X which dissolves everything except fiber X. Washers won't need heat or mechanical abrasion, so clothes can last longer or be made more cheaply while still lasting long enough. No more brushing, just chew a dental candy once a day. It has bacteria that consumes plaque & tartar and viruses that kill acid-producing mouth bacteria. Dynamic balancing of intestinal fauna will solve a myriad of undiagnosed chronic health problems. Also no more farts. I also predict a pill that will make feces emerge as small smooth fragrance-free pebbles. Paper consumption will plummet, but that won't affect the environment because paper fibers will already be grown in a vat, using sugars made by algae. Sugar is the feedstock of the world's industry. Algeria becomes the world's leading producer of sugar. Climate change is reversed by the adoption of a sugar-based concrete. Data storage will become DNA-based. All of Google's data will fit in a drop of DNA preservative. Copying data will be cheap. But reading is slow, with throughput scaling with the number of reader chips. Data theft is done with mosquito drones that literally suck data juice. Surveillance is done with "tick" robots that record their sensor data to a DNA sac. Humans will find an ancient DNA-based data archive in a colony of sea creatures in a deep sea trench. It contains a copy of Wikipedia from a civilization that evolved from squid many millions of years ago. They reached bio-tech stage and then disappeared completely. We prepare our own data archive...

lumberingjack 6y ago

The manufacturing process is so costly normal production of meat is always going to be a better option for like the next 200 years. This is just virtue signaling BS for those who want to feel morally righteous

umvi 6y ago
It's costly, but some people are willing to pay the cost, so there could be a viable market for it.