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A key benefit of cultured meat is its minimized impact on the environment => And the key danger is its maximized impact on the body.
by aurora72 5y ago
A key benefit of cultured meat is its minimized impact on the environment => And the key danger is its maximized impact on the body.
- IntelMiner 5y agoWhat impact?
- airhead969 5y agoDiverticulitis, gout, hyperlipidemia, halitosis, ...
- IntelMiner 5y agoHow is that specific to lab meat versus regular meat, though?
- kazen44 5y agohow so? as far as i am aware, this is actual meat, compared to a substitute.
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoThis is a great concept and likely to be the only way to continue to eat meat in a long-term future. However, applying a cautionary principle, I would really prefer to find a detailed description of what ingredients are these meat cultures being supplied with during growth. For example, cow meat is theoretically healthy but the previous outbreak of BSE started with cow feed that included other cow parts. In the same way sea fish is theoretically healthy, however aquaculture fish feed includes a large portion of fishmeal which is again grinded dead fish guts and bones. The nutrional value of this (lower omega fatty acids content?) is to me not clear and the impact of this is perhaps insuficiently studied (Happy to read any sources others may suggest). I am not arguing that a lab grown muscle cell is different from a muscle cell appended to a chicken. But I would very much like to see more detail on the supply chain of how that muscle cell is provided with nutrients.
- starfallg 5y agoImplying that natural products are always good for us, while synthetic ones are always bad is intellectual laziness. There is an abundance of toxic compounds found in nature that are unequivocally bad for us. Take bracken for example, a ubiquitous plant containing the carcinogen ptaquiloside, which is used in cooking in different parts of the world traditionally. It can also be absorbed up the food chain affecting milk that humans consume, and it is known to affect the water supply, increasing the rate of stomach cancer.
- nicoburns 5y agoPerhaps, but suggesting that processed foods (which factory produced meats essentially are) tend to contain less (potentially important - we have no idea) micronutrients is not, and is a very reasonable concern to have.