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This is kind of a weird question, but how exactly does anyone prove that this is actually lab grown meat and isn't just normal meat that has been turned into me
by t0mbstone 5y ago
This is kind of a weird question, but how exactly does anyone prove that this is actually lab grown meat and isn't just normal meat that has been turned into meat paste and then sold for twice as much as normal meat?
I mean, obviously, they wouldn't do this at first. They would wait until everyone was complacent and used to eating lab grown meat before they started supplementing their production.
As long as creating lab-grown meat is more expensive than growing real animals and butchering them, there will be an economic incentive for this sort of fraud.
- madacol 5y agoThe promise is that it should eventually be cheaper than normal meat, otherwise they'll fail
- t0mbstone 5y agoRealistically, even fake meat sold as "lab grown" could be cheaper than normal meat if what they are doing is turning low quality meat into paste and forming it into shapes and stuff.
- AnotherGoodName 5y agoYou can ask this about a lot of foods. How do you know your baby formula isn't just crushed white building material mixed with water? (This happened btw, see melamine baby formula). In the end big conspiracies like this leak out since there's a lot of employees in the supply chain and trust in the brand is broken. The Chinese go out of their way to buy Australian and New Zealand branded baby formula to this day because trust in their own local brands was destroyed. So this is unlikely. Possible and similar short sighted things have occurred in management before (see Boeing) but it would be ridiculously poor management to let something like this happen.
- gentleman11 5y agoWhat is lab grown meat? Is it alive? Are there any nerves? Does it just absorb nutrients in a pasty vat? Is there skin? Does it get cancer if you left it too long on there? Can you get it to soak up extra nutrients or make new meat types?
- t0mbstone 5y agoI want to know the answers to these questions, too!
- edanm 5y agoThe economic reason for brands is exactly to develop trust. But also (and quite possibly more importantly), there is a lot of government oversight and regulation when it comes to food. And also also, people could sue for fraud.