So what are they (the farmers) going to do? Kill off all their livestock? Where ya going to get leather for shoes and belts and footballs from, huh?? Huh??
Oh, don’t worry about that.
In order to grow cells in a lab, one must have quantities of serum. Usually it’s fetal calf serum, although, for some applications, newborn calf or other serum types will suffice.
Fetal calves are obtained when their mothers are slaughtered. So you still get the meat and leather.
This may be a technological wonder, but I don’t see how it could possibly be ramped up to produce enough for a food supply—even if people were willing to eat laboratory products—since the supplies needed are so expensive. I’ve used thousands of dollars worth of fetal calf serum during my career; I doubt I’ve grown enough cells to make even a pound of meat.
They'll skin grandma and tan her hide.
We use synthetics made from oil, er............never mind.
What? Those great unwashed masses of bitter clingers in flyover country who actually grow food from dirt, and raise creatures that eat grass and make poo and all that other icky stuff? >>shudder<<
Hush, child, and eat your sterile labmeat stuff.
Your mother worked at least Five minutes to make this meal.
Quit whining.
There are starving children somewhere who would be happy to have it...
(/s of course...)
Beef flavor 'space food sticks'...gonna be tough to sell without the space program.