Posted on 05/26/2022 11:58:11 AM PDT by algore
The building of the world’s largest bioreactors to produce cultivated meat has been announced, with the potential to supply tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. Experts said the move could be a “gamechanger” for the nascent industry.
The US company Good Meat said the bioreactors would grow more than 13,000 tonnes of chicken and beef a year. It will use cells taken from cell banks or eggs, so the meat will not require the slaughter of any livestock.
There are about 170 companies around the world working on cultured meat, but Good Meat is the only company to have gained regulatory approval to sell its product to the public. It began serving cultivated chicken in Singapore in December 2020.
Cattle, chicken and other livestock have a huge environmental impact due to methane emissions, the destruction of forests and water use. The consumption of conventional meat in rich nations must fall dramatically to beat the climate crisis, scientists say. Proponents of cultivated meat say it can provide the same taste and feel as conventional meat but with a far smaller environmental impact.
The creation of Good Meat’s 10 new bioreactors is under way, the company says, each of which has a capacity of 250,000 litres and will stand four storeys tall, far bigger than any constructed to date. The US site for the facility is due to be finalised within three months and operational in late 2024, reaching 11,800 tonnes a year by 2026 and 13,700 tonnes by 2030.
The bioreactors are being manufactured as part of an agreement with ABEC, a leading bioprocess equipment manufacturer
“I think our grandchildren are going to ask us about why we ate meat from slaughtered animals
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Workers are organic, aren’t they?
So they’re basically growing tumors in a vat and calling it meat. Sounds delicious.
If this kind of shit isn’t the ultimate processed food, what is?
This is transitioning to nutritional paste.
To get people used to it it’ll taste normal. Even good. Then a time goes on it will be less and less until everyone has forgotten what it’s supposed to taste life.
My daughter will likely not know what beef is when she’s 40
Nutritional paste. It could reach the point where we don’t even need stomachs or digestive systems anymore. I can imagine humans in space colonies living like that, in a few generations maybe, if Elon Musk’s vision of the future pans out. But I also imagine there will still be humans on Earth or on a terraformed Mars eating real plants and animals, since that has worked for millions of years anyway. As Yoda would say, “”Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.”
I am sure that is exactly what Noah used on the Ark, Unless they ate fish or something.
I might use the word cancerous tumor, but yeah.
When I was a child my parents had fruit trees, big gardens, my neighbors parents had a big ranch and we would buy a 1/2 a cow and a pig from them every year and the local Butcher would cut it up for us.
The Butcher had a like a 5,000 sq ft freezer with double door airlocks and everyone in town would put their meat he cut up in wooden slatted “lockers” to store until needed.
I wonder if there is any such thing these days?
I care for neither Soylent Red or Soylent Yellow.
While our Kings and Queens dine on caviar, Kobe Beef, Lobster, shrimp, organic veggies and aged cheeses and wines.
Of course they also fly on private jets, ride in limos, and vacation anywhere they want in the world.
remember when they got all upset about Pink Slime. What shall we call this?
Oh vomit. Someone blow that stinky thing up.
Nope.
Waste of money as far as I’m concerned.
I'm open to these products if they are as tasty and nutritious as the stuff grown on the hoof.
Soylent Green is aborted babies?
Ha!
When I was in high school a teacher told me a story about
something that happened at a potato chip factory that a
friend of his once worked at.
There are huge vats of hot oil for frying the chips, right?
Once, a stray cat got into the factory somehow and fell
into one of the vats.
What was done about it?
Nothing.
No kill meat
Fake meat
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