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It doesn't need to be produced through the incredible wasteful in-between animal. People can either eat straight up plant-based food, or alternatively go for l
by malermeister 2y ago
It doesn't need to be produced through the incredible wasteful in-between animal.
People can either eat straight up plant-based food, or alternatively go for lab grown meat. There's no need to go through all the inefficiency and suffering of factory farms.
- bamboozled 2y agoAre you vegan?
- malermeister 2y agoI am not, but I have a lot of respect for people who are. Personally, I'm too selfish and animal products taste too good.
- pc86 2y agoMaybe you should stick to plant-based food and lab grown meat before telling other people to stop eating animals and go to plant-based food and lab grown meat.
- malermeister 2y agoWhy?
- al_borland 2y agoI’ve seen videos about lab grown meat being in development. Is it actually available and available at scale? I haven’t looked to see if studies have been done to look at the nutritional profile of lab grown vs normal meat. I’d be curious about that as well before I tried it.
- kalium-xyz 2y agoIts not really economic to grow it at scale and how to scale it up is as of yet unsolved last I checked.
- lettergram 2y agoI find the idea of lab grown meat almost comical… So we have these animals, which eat plants and generate fuel (poop) & food (meat). Our bodies are adapted to eating them, our bodies need the same nutrients, and we’re programmed to enjoy the food. The input to this process is mostly grass and grain, both generated via solar power. Now instead… we take grain, highly process it and make someone few people enjoy, with less nutrients, and likely some unforeseen by products. They can then sell it at a higher price. At the end of the day, we know what works. It doesn’t make sense to try and reinvent the wheel without benefit.
- roywiggins 2y agoLab-grown meat is meat, not grain. It's produced in bioreactors and the like. It doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense yet, though.
- lettergram 2y agoIt also has to have some inputs, which come from things like grain. The more interesting part, is imo there will be a lot of nutrition we miss
- roywiggins 2y agoMuch meat already uses grain as a substantial part of its input already...
- lettergram 2y agoI know, that's my point. We already have a highly efficient and nutritious way to obtain meat.
- mattmaroon 2y agoWell, it’s not highly efficient, at all, except maybe chicken. The feed ratio (how much food it takes to get one unit of meat) on animals ranges pretty widely. Cows are an order of magnitude more than chicken, with pigs in the middle. A lot of time, energy, and land goes to just keeping the animal alive and metabolizing. And you’re left with the problem of a lot of the parts of the animal are of low value. Lab grown meat could, in theory, be much more efficient. Just quickly grow the muscles people actually want to eat. There are also a lot of potential ethical issues with the way meat is raised at scale. However the comment implying it’s an option currently is ridiculous. It’s nowhere near ready for scale. Might as well cite that Star Trek meal thingy (replicator?).