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Doesn’t lab grown meat need a lot of growth serum, which is currently extracted from pregnant animals? So as it stands it is not a solution to help reduce clima
by runarberg 4y ago
Doesn’t lab grown meat need a lot of growth serum, which is currently extracted from pregnant animals? So as it stands it is not a solution to help reduce climate change (nor animal suffering). For that we’d need a more sustainable way of producing these serums. I’m not aware of any methods which are proven to work at scale.
- coldpie 4y agoBeats me! I don't expect it to be more efficient today, it's brand new tech. My hope is that it will be much more efficient as research continues & economies of scale start to kick in. It may well turn out to be a dead end, but until that's clear, I think it is exciting to think about.
- mehulkar 4y agoThere are non-FBS options now https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/upside-foods-develops-breakthrough-cell-feed-that-is-free-of-animal-components-301441242.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/upside-foods-develo...
- AS37 4y ago> Doesn’t lab grown meat need a lot of growth serum, which is currently extracted from pregnant animals? 5 years ago it took ~50L of fetal bovine serum (FBS) to grow a burger, at around USD 400/L. FBS is made from the blood of unborn calves, which are taken from slaughtered cows. All lab meat companies are obviously looking to reduce that input cost by finding a replacement.