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> What's so weird about sterile rooms and stainless steel tanks? Do you think breweries (for example) are so much different? I can brew my own beer in my own h

> What's so weird about sterile rooms and stainless steel tanks? Do you think breweries (for example) are so much different? I can brew my own beer in my own home. Can I make lab-grown meat in my own home?

freddie_mercury 3y ago
You're moving the goal posts. The initial claim was that stainless steel tanks per se were the issue.
- smashed 3y ago
  They feel unnatural and unconventional and is something a large part of the population will be unable to relate to. Food is a very cultural thing. We've also been educated to buy and prepare our own meals from the most natural/unprocessed ingredients as possible and avoid heavily industrialized/preprocess ingredients for health reasons. Lab grown meat is the opposite of both of that. I am just playing Devil's advocate here. I understand the appeal and potential environmental benefits as well.
  - Hedepig 3y ago
    While this technology is becoming mainstream, those of us that are okay with it should understand there is something fundamentally "icky" for some people. Which is difficult to debate rationally. This is partly the fault of Sci-fi, bio-engineering is rarely shown as a positive in TV and Film. This will be mostly solved with time, eventually it may become economically unviable to buy "field meat" (not sure what the term will be), and it will become a lot more accepted when they see the people around them enjoying it without severe consequences.
    - XorNot 3y ago
      I'd be extremely curious to see a lot of these people be presented with the bioreactor and the live cow, and pick which one they're going to eat. "Icky" is ignorance.
  - hombre_fatal 3y ago
    I wouldn’t be so sure that most of the population could relate to the horrors of factory farms and slaughter houses—where basically all meat they’re buying comes from no matter how many alleged free roam grass fed consumers claim to exist on social media. That’s why there are laws to keep them from seeing it. Which might be why so many HNers think animals grow up in sunshine and rainbows and it’s the sterile lab that's icky.
Hedepig 3y ago
With the right equipment, if not now, soon you will be able to.

freddie_mercury 3y ago

You're moving the goal posts. The initial claim was that stainless steel tanks per se were the issue.

smashed 3y ago
They feel unnatural and unconventional and is something a large part of the population will be unable to relate to. Food is a very cultural thing. We've also been educated to buy and prepare our own meals from the most natural/unprocessed ingredients as possible and avoid heavily industrialized/preprocess ingredients for health reasons. Lab grown meat is the opposite of both of that. I am just playing Devil's advocate here. I understand the appeal and potential environmental benefits as well.
- Hedepig 3y ago
  While this technology is becoming mainstream, those of us that are okay with it should understand there is something fundamentally "icky" for some people. Which is difficult to debate rationally. This is partly the fault of Sci-fi, bio-engineering is rarely shown as a positive in TV and Film. This will be mostly solved with time, eventually it may become economically unviable to buy "field meat" (not sure what the term will be), and it will become a lot more accepted when they see the people around them enjoying it without severe consequences.
  - XorNot 3y ago
    I'd be extremely curious to see a lot of these people be presented with the bioreactor and the live cow, and pick which one they're going to eat. "Icky" is ignorance.
- hombre_fatal 3y ago
  I wouldn’t be so sure that most of the population could relate to the horrors of factory farms and slaughter houses—where basically all meat they’re buying comes from no matter how many alleged free roam grass fed consumers claim to exist on social media. That’s why there are laws to keep them from seeing it. Which might be why so many HNers think animals grow up in sunshine and rainbows and it’s the sterile lab that's icky.

Hedepig 3y ago

With the right equipment, if not now, soon you will be able to.