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> Most of us have a limited appetite for 50-dollar lab-grown chicken nuggets. You don't need lab-grown/cell cultured product to make replacement chicken - espe
by helsinkiandrew 5y ago
> Most of us have a limited appetite for 50-dollar lab-grown chicken nuggets.
You don't need lab-grown/cell cultured product to make replacement chicken - especially nuggets.
There's hundreds/thousands of products that taste closer to chicken than fake beef tastes like beef - made from soy, gluten or whatever, that only cost a few dollars. You can probably tell the difference if it was served as a breast/thigh but slices/strips for salads and stir fries etc are indistinguishable.
For example Wholefoods accidently swapped some labels on real chicken and 'chickn' salads and nobody noticed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/business/meat-alternatives-on-the-plate-and-in-the-portfolio.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/business/meat-alternative...
https://web.archive.org/web/20210429135027/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/business/meat-alternatives-on-the-plate-and-in-the-portfolio.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210429135027/https://www.nytim...
- fragmede 5y agoI'm sure the chickens did.
- anovikov 5y agoAnd yes! Also think that making an artificial wagyu will be very easy and probably not harder/more expensive than any other, and $50 or even $100 dollar wagyu steak is going to be super competitive. And chicken is easy - even a completely chemical, artificial chicken made from God knows what, is hardly distinguishable from a real one so yeah, not much chance there.