Who knew?
Posted on 12/11/2018 9:35:50 AM PST by BenLurkin
Israeli-based Aleph Farms says it’s figured out how to create the structure of real beef from animal cells in a petri dish — so that it actually feels like you’re biting into a piece of meat, rather than just tasting it.
WSJ’s Jason Bellini visited the company’s headquarters in a technology park on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, for a taste of what Aleph Farms says is the first lab-grown steak in the world.
Aleph Farms is among several companies in a race to grow meat in a lab using clusters of cells from animals, without actually killing them.
egulators in the U.S. are still evaluating whether cultured meats are safe for consumers, and whether they should even be called meat.
While proponents say these new meats can be produced at a fraction of the environmental costs that come from traditional, large-scale farming, at this early stage of development, producing a pound of meat from cells is still far more expensive than that from an animal.
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Who knew?
Driven by fears about Mad Cow and other prion-related diseases.
THX. Is that my Christmas present?
Merry merry to you and yours. :)
The Left decrees that GMO franken foods are bad unless they are to replace meat.
I’m still going to need bones for stock.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!
Pull the other one you nitwits. Cows eating grass are part of the natural environmental cycle where this factory fake meat is not.
And even when you attempt to slant your agenda by only including "large scale farming" you are still a bunch liars.
I buy my meat from friends and acquaintances who actually grow the creatures.
This technology if it could be mastered, would have huge implications. Raising livestock has considerable financial and environmental costs....think of all the grain they have to eat, all the pig and cow excrement, etc.
But there is another angle to this. The exact same technology that would allow us to replicate meat would also allow us to grow human flesh. We can already do this for skin but think about being able to take a person’s own cells and grow say, replacement organs that are perfectly genetically matched since its their own cells. The medical implications would be staggering.
Meat isn’t evolving! but some people have taken to calling test tube concoctions “meat.” That isn’t meat.
Your first point is very valid, as anyone who has ever lived near a confined feeding operations can tell you which way the wind is blowing by the eye watering stench. During my first master’s degree I worked with a large agribusiness group to use drones with airborne lidar to measure from the air the depth of fecal material in open feedlot pits. We would fly over and take millions of data points then come back a few weeks later and fly the same plot the difference in elevation was the depth of manure. we then calculated how many METRIC TONS of manure would need to be backhoed out and how many dozens of 18 wheel trucks. The depth of manue was measure in feet it compacts to a solid mass in the sun and heat only heavy equipment can excavate it. all that biowaste has to go somewhere usually sanitary landfill as it is not in the right conditions for digestion via fermentator.
No freaking way. Not for food reasons, but for control reasons. Get people eating this stuff, start reducing cattle because of global warming, then when lab meat is fully implemented, shut off the spigot.
Hell with that.
The hippies/bunny-huggers/nanny-stater assholes can eat whatever they want, and I’ll do the same.
My preference is a well-marbled ribeye from a grain-finished bovine critter, cut 5/4” thick, then seared ~60 seconds each side over a white-hot charcoal fire.
cell slime
All of the cows are grass or hay fed. No grains, artificial supplements, except salt minerals in the summer.
Once or twice a year we take cows to auction to sell.
People assume we get more money for grass-fed cows because there's no chemicals involved. And that's the healthy and popular thing to do now.
But the buyers at the auction don't give a hoot about grass-fed cows versus grain fed. They pay the same price per pound on the hoof for individual or a group of cows. They don't know nor care how the cows are fed.
Only the liberals fall for that fallacy.
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