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My concern with this is the health or nutritional profile of the engineered meat. Technology is great, but we've also found out years later that an "innovation
by mattzito 13y ago
My concern with this is the health or nutritional profile of the engineered meat. Technology is great, but we've also found out years later that an "innovation" is really a step backwards health-wise.
So, for example, the move from grass-fed to corn-fed beef allowed for vastly greater production in a much more efficient fashion, and even (for most people's palates) resulted in a better tasting meat. 20+ years later, we're finding out that the environmental cost of factory farm meat is much higher than we thought, and the corn-fed beef is much worse for you than grass-fed beef.
20 years from the meat cubes hitting the shelves, are we going to find out that cells grown on a straight glucose+vitamin mix are missing some micronutrient that helps our brain function correctly, or protects the gut against cancer?
Our bodies have had a very long time to adapt to certain models of nutrition, and when we tamper with them, we often find unintended consequences.