Posted on 08/08/2020 2:27:26 AM PDT by be-baw
We are in a boom time for plant-based “meats,” and multiple companies, including the likes of both Beyond Meat and IKEA, are making these types of animal-free proteins increasingly accessible. This is, of course, bad news for the meat industry, which has previously slammed plant-based meats, suggesting that they are both unnatural and will result in “forced vegetarianism.” So where does it leave both the meat industry and consumers when a company starts making meat in a lab instead of butchering an actual living animal?
As written about by Forbes, the company Mission Barns is doing exactly that. Mission Barns’ website says its product takes pork cells and feeds the cells “in a warm cultivator” with “vitamins, sugars, salts & proteins.” Once the cells have been fattened “to their limit” the company “harvest[s] [the] tissue,” giving you bacon without the slaughter, a product Forbes refers to as “cultivated protein.” And, per Mission Barns, the company is also manufacturing fat alone, offering “pork lard, duck fat, & other fats upon request.”
Mission Barns’ product calls to mind the “Headless Chicken Solution,” which proposed growing chickens in towering, Matrix-style vertical farms stacked one thousand chickens high. And the idea of slicing quivering slabs of cultivated bacon, still warm from the cultivator, is a bit weird, if not downright grotesque. That being said, the actual commercial pork industry is a carnival of horrors, and pigs, while delicious, are quite intelligent and the manner in which they are raised and slaughtered is like something out of Cloud Atlas. If we can get the meat without the animal, maybe we should take advantage.
Somehow I doubt this will become commercially available in my lifetime.
Almost, almost every time one of those 100,105 year old birthdays are announced, the person states, in no uncertain terms ‘every morning, I eat bacon.’
“in no uncertain terms ‘every morning, I eat bacon.’”
Come to think of it, you’re right. Usually there’s some kind of alcohol on that list, too — bourbon or something.
Pure duck fat...if its under $15/lb sign me up. Double two temperature Duck fat fried pomme frites is the only way to go. I’d give lab bacon a try because well bacon. If it tastes good who cares where it came from the lab or the pig. I raised two piglets in FFA in high school they are extremely intelligent and also bond with their owners like a dog but in the end porkster went to the great bacon frier in the sky.
If it doesn’t come from a pig it aint bacon....its some synthetic protein.
No thanks.
So, comes the obvious question.
Why would anyone raise pigs if not to slaughter them?
If no one raises pigs, what becomes of pigs?
Millions or billions of pigs will never be born.
If is unlikely that pigs will become extinct but still are pigs better off being raised to be eaten or never existing?
EEEEEWWWWWWWW.
No immune system in cell culture.
A nice way to cultivate viruses.
That’s why I’m not a farmer and just a grocery shopper.
Pigs will never be extinct Texas has such a overload of feral hogs they eat everything,and breed like rabbits. There’s no closed season no hunting licence and no closed means. People hunt them from helicopters and shoot full auto at them at the blessing from the state. Land owners have a 5_20 buck per tail bounty on them and I have never had a land owner refuse my free services of extermination of every one I can shoot with an AR10 in exchange for some walking trigger time on the land. Texas is estimated to have over 4 million of the wild critters amd that number grows every year.
Not with any other options, anyway.
This will be the first step to outlawing meat because substitutes are ‘good enough’ according to politicians.
My favorite pastor growing up worked at a slaughterhouse before getting ordained. He made sure that the youth group went to a feedlot, and slaughterhouse with every new group of teens. He felt it was ungodly to eat meat and not appreciate the animals sacrifice. He was right, I’m an avid hunter and conservationist and also believe everyone needs to see how “meat” is made. My freezers are full of all manor of God’s creation not a single one was hunted without nearly every usable part being saved for me or the dog.
I have had a few of those meat substitute burgers. If lab grown is to real bacon what those burgers are to meat, this product won’t last long.
I have no intention of EVER eating what is really a lab-grown cancer!
Every so called restaurant serving fake meat or these cancer cells goes on my permanent boycott list.
The pork roast I coincidentally had for dinner was real, and delicious.
Meanwhile the Indigenous Indian/Latino side of the family down South eat natural corn products and have no issues. Are these modified foods causing people to react horribly to basic foods people cultivated for centuries? Has anyone outside of the GMO industries looked into this more deeply?
I'd say no. I'd say they could shove that bacon so far up their nether crevices that we never hear about it again.
Very simply put...no way,Jose!
“He felt it was ungodly to eat meat and not appreciate the animals sacrifice.”
That’s very commendable! Kids need to understand man’s relationship with critters, and how God established the balance of nature in that aspect. My sweet, sweet uncle was a farmer and Mom said that he cried every time he had to kill an animal, no matter what the reason.
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