I know I'm an old fool, what's next? Lab grown hops or grapes, to make beer or wine, from a bio-lab?
America’s truly heading to a society of Eloi and Morlocks. Corporate factory-processed food, Gov’t schools, and substance Govt welfare for the lower classes, with a class of people who do not buy into the hive-mind, debased culture, and fake history able to stay above it all.
I’ll never eat that crap.
I would looove to try lab grown meat. I am looking forward to it. This is not to say I will continue eating it if I don’t like how it tastes.
Are we eating it yet?
Ve vill change ze definition of ‘beef’ to include ze bugs! Protein is protein!................
This is funny.
The cells forming the lab-grown “meat” must be grown using cell-culture media. Most cells will not grow unless they are fed serum. Specifically, this is fetal calf serum harvested by collecting the blood of fetal calves from cows at slaughter. (The fetal calves become unconscious from lack of oxygen when the mother is slaughtered. It is considered humane to drain their blood as long as they do not regain consciousness.)
So, in order to grow “meat” in the lab, pregnant cows must be slaughtered.
Might as well just eat the cows and let the scientists keep the fetal calf serum for research. That stuff is expensive... I’ve spent $1000 a liter for it (grant money, not my personal money).
Oh, and I have read a patent for lab-grown “meat.” That patent stated that the sources of cell culture media are tested for bovine spongiform encephalitis, aka “mad cow disease.” So, yeah, they’re using fetal calf serum.
Unrestricted cell growth = tumor
If they ever ome up with lab grown brains there could be hope for Democrats.
Not impressed until they can grow me new legs.
lab grown “meat” utilizes the division of so-called “immortal” cells, which regular folks would call cancer ...
the other problem with so-called lab grown “meat” is it costs twice as much to manufacture than simply growing and harvesting cattle because of the complexity of the process and the material and energy inputs into the manufacturing process ... in other words, lab grown “meat” is twice as inefficient as conventional cattle production in terms of resource consumption ...