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Lab Grown meat

RAMOSS said:
A startup company is making lab grown meat to try to sell. Would you buy and eat lab grown meat (assuming that taste and texture were the same as the real stuff??


Memphis Meats reveals its first test-tube MEATBALL | Daily Mail Online
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Yeah, totally. Once it's both no longer insanely expensive and approved as safe, of course. I'd still buy it even if it cost more, within the realms of sanity.

I have no problem with eating meat and animal products in general. It is the most bioavailable way for humans to get their nutritional needs met. I am a pretty light meat eater just by nature and probably eat vegetarian 4 or 5 days out of the week, but if my body says that's what it wants, then that's what I have. Usually fish, but occasionally land animals.

But I do have a problem with the disgusting and torturous sorts of environment most farm animals live in. And I already pay more trying my best to avoid them, but fully aware that even some more humane farms aren't that great.

Furthermore, I have a cat, and cats are obligate carnivores. Yes, I also try my best to check where her food comes from.

Getting lab meat basically eliminates all that checking, or the uncertainty of whether something really is as advertised, from my life. I'd be all over it.
 
If I was hungry enough, I'd eat a Lab. Prolly eat a wiener dog too.
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
Yeah, totally. Once it's both no longer insanely expensive and approved as safe, of course. I'd still buy it even if it cost more, within the realms of sanity.

I have no problem with eating meat and animal products in general. It is the most bioavailable way for humans to get their nutritional needs met. I am a pretty light meat eater just by nature and probably eat vegetarian 4 or 5 days out of the week, but if my body says that's what it wants, then that's what I have. Usually fish, but occasionally land animals.

But I do have a problem with the disgusting and torturous sorts of environment most farm animals live in. And I already pay more trying my best to avoid them, but fully aware that even some more humane farms aren't that great.

Furthermore, I have a cat, and cats are obligate carnivores. Yes, I also try my best to check where her food comes from.

Getting lab meat basically eliminates all that checking, or the uncertainty of whether something really is as advertised, from my life. I'd be all over it.
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It's only 18K a pound right now (although another company with a different process supposedly go tit down to 11 bucks a pound.). It will be interesting to see what happens.
 
RAMOSS said:
A startup company is making lab grown meat to try to sell. Would you buy and eat lab grown meat (assuming that taste and texture were the same as the real stuff??


Memphis Meats reveals its first test-tube MEATBALL | Daily Mail Online
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Absolutely I'd buy it. Even if it were more expensive. It makes a million times more sense than to raise animals. In a few centuries time, people are going to look at that practice of actually raising entire animals for their meat as being so wasteful and inefficient.

The only thing I'm worried about is the amount of farmers who would go out of business over this. Kinda like the newspaper or auto industry.
 
Is there a "not just no but hell no" option?
 
I'm a vegan and I can't say I ever miss the taste of meat. It was rarely the center of my meals anyway. But I can invision a day in the future when the process has been perfected to the point that people can't tell the difference. It could even be tailored to taste BETTER than genuine meat. And just as important, I can see it eventually getting to where it is more economical than raising entire animals. Once it is cheaper and tastes just as good, that is when the masses will adopt it. We are a long way from that. But I do think that day will come.
 
VanceMack said:
Is there a "not just no but hell no" option?
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I'm with you. I have no problem knowing that my dinner comes from a dead critter but the idea of eating test tube food just makes me cringe.
 
VanceMack said:
Is there a "not just no but hell no" option?
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Why?

At the end of the day if they can get it right it might actually be tastier and healthier :shrug:

Animals get all sorts of weird and wonderful diseases that if mutated correctly could infect humans... That issue could be completely eliminated with such an advancement.

After that they could make it have whatever texture and taste they want to convey...

Perhaps we could even eliminate cattle farms for meat all together, which would be good for the environment.

I'm talking like way in the future if they could get it right.
 
VanceMack said:
Is there a "not just no but hell no" option?
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Lutherf said:
I'm with you. I have no problem knowing that my dinner comes from a dead critter but the idea of eating test tube food just makes me cringe.
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I mean, you guys do realize that the modern meat industry is far from 'natural' itself? Animals, bred and fed for one singular purpose, with genetic enhancements in some areas, kept in cages that aren't much bigger than test tubes?

I'm struggling to understand the objections, this meat is just grown in a sterile environment instead of the womb of an animal forced to bear multiple children.
 
We come from a family of meat eaters.

At least meat once a day (usually chicken or turkey, not beef. We'll eat beef every once in a while in the form of hamburgers or something).

Of course, the idea of meat in a lab is... Interesting. But as a judge of fine burgers, if it makes for a good burger, I could give a **** where it came from.
 
Nilly said:
Absolutely I'd buy it. Even if it were more expensive. It makes a million times more sense than to raise animals. In a few centuries time, people are going to look at that practice of actually raising entire animals for their meat as being so wasteful and inefficient.

The only thing I'm worried about is the amount of farmers who would go out of business over this. Kinda like the newspaper or auto industry.
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This process still requires the slaughtering of pregnant animals.

Although Valeti mentions no animals are slaughtered in making the meats, the firm does use fetal bovine serum from unborn calves' blood to initiate the process.

When a pregnant cow is slaughtered, blood is drown from the fetus through its heart.
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Nilly said:
I mean, you guys do realize that the modern meat industry is far from 'natural' itself? Animals, bred and fed for one singular purpose, with genetic enhancements in some areas, kept in cages that aren't much bigger than test tubes?

I'm struggling to understand the objections, this meat is just grown in a sterile environment instead of the womb of an animal forced to bear multiple children.
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Not really interested in soylent green and petri dish meatballs. 30 years from now? Who knows. Maybe there wont be a choice. 40 years from now I'll be dead and someone else can pick it off the menu.
 
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VanceMack said:
Not really interested in soylent green and petri dish meatballs. 30 years from now? Who knows. Maybe there wont be a choice. 40 years from now I'll be dead and someone else can pick it off the menu.
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Why though? What concrete difference would it have from a piece of meat raised on a factory farm? Genetically, its 100% cow.
 
tacomancer said:
Why though? What concrete difference would it have from a piece of meat raised on a factory farm? Genetically, its 100% cow.
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I'll start with three words.

Lab. Grown. Meat.
 
tacomancer said:
What's the problem with eating it?
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Nothing. You should feel free.

You know...I HATE avocados. My wife LOVES avocados. I NEVER talk about avocados but when I wont eat avocados she simply cant let it go. WHY don't you like them? WHY wont you eat them? Whats WRONG with you? Which of course forces me to say that to me they have the consistency, appearance, and taste of what I imagine baby poop would taste like. I simply don't like them. I wont eat them. But FEEL FREE to enjoy yours. Have all of mine. Win win.

Lab. Grown. Meat.

No thanks.
 
VanceMack said:
Nothing. You should feel free.

You know...I HATE avocados. My wife LOVES avocados. I NEVER talk about avocados but when I wont eat avocados she simply cant let it go. WHY don't you like them? WHY wont you eat them? Whats WRONG with you? Which of course forces me to say that to me they have the consistency, appearance, and taste of what I imagine baby poop would taste like. I simply don't like them. I wont eat them. But FEEL FREE to enjoy yours. Have all of mine. Win win.

Lab. Grown. Meat.

No thanks.
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This is a really really silly reason for not eating it.

But y'know what. I was gonna argue and stuff but it's also a completely human reason, totally understandable, relatable and the reason that I won't eat mushrooms. Good answer lol.
 
VanceMack said:
Nothing. You should feel free.

You know...I HATE avocados. My wife LOVES avocados. I NEVER talk about avocados but when I wont eat avocados she simply cant let it go. WHY don't you like them? WHY wont you eat them? Whats WRONG with you? Which of course forces me to say that to me they have the consistency, appearance, and taste of what I imagine baby poop would taste like. I simply don't like them. I wont eat them. But FEEL FREE to enjoy yours. Have all of mine. Win win.

Lab. Grown. Meat.

No thanks.
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Ok, I was just curious to see if there was a concrete reason to be adverse to lab grown meat.
 
tacomancer said:
Ok, I was just curious to see if there was a concrete reason to be adverse to lab grown meat.
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You mean MORE than the term 'lab grown meat'? Nah...I guess not.
 
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