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We already went through this with synthetic meat. It’s really hard to beat the efficiency and self replication of plants and animals. Keeping everything steri
by Mistletoe 2y ago
We already went through this with synthetic meat. It’s really hard to beat the efficiency and self replication of plants and animals. Keeping everything sterile and exchanging gases and nutrients is not an easy task in a lab.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-footprint-worse-beef https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-foot...
I have experience growing up human cells, fungi, and bacteria in bioreactors and it doesn’t scale like a chicken house or field of corn. Maybe the Finnish bacteria is better than meat but I have my doubts it gets to where it needs to be.