Is lab-grown meat the future of food?

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  • Pogo
    Mystic Knight of the sea
    • Oct 2024
    • 620

    Is lab-grown meat the future of food?

    Americans love meat. And despite a whole range of new plant-based alternatives that have hit the market, our appitite for pork, beef and poultry only seems to be growing.

    In the past few years, however, scientists have made breakthroughs on products that promise to allow Americans to keep eating the food they love without any of these negative consequences: lab-grown meat.

    Optimists envision a world where we can all enjoy meat without any of the ethical or climate drawbacks, but practical hurdles and the "ick factor" could stop that from ever becoming reality.

    We have met the enemy and he is us.

  • baboon
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2024
    • 874

    #2
    That shit aint happening here in Texas. I think the governor has already blocked it. Here where I live in Central Texas one needs to be aware that cattle will get out and are stupid. Hitting one with anything less then a semi Tractor your going to be sorry you did. Lots of smaller fed lots around. The best close by place to eat is the cafe at the cattle sales barn.

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    • rto
      Moderator
      • Oct 2024
      • 784

      #3
      Flarda has already banned petri dish meat thanks to gov DeSantis.

      Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law this week a ban prohibiting the manufacture and distribution of lab-grown meat in the state.

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      • mrkalashnikov
        Member
        • Oct 2024
        • 404

        #4
        I'll pass on the FrankenFood. The wife just scored a number of nice steaks for us the other day at Costco, to keep us going through whatever happens after the chaos this November.

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        • aviator
          Administrator
          • Oct 2024
          • 2166

          #5
          I’d rather eat possum meat than lab grown meat.
          Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.

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          • Czubek
            MINE!
            • Oct 2024
            • 60

            #6
            Originally posted by aviator
            I’d rather eat possum meat than lab grown meat.
            Agreed. One is just as vile as the other.

            Brian

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            • dinkydow
              Moderator
              • Oct 2024
              • 719

              #7
              .....visions of a huge mass of red "meat" growing constantly inside a large stainless steel vat of "nutrients," requiring near constant "trimmings" as it grows and grows....hundreds of those vats. In row after row with automated machinery "harvesting" the "crops" of red meat. Technicians in white lab coats, clip boards in hand, circulating among the "grow vats," tweaking, making minute adjustments, while eight foot slabs of "beef" freshly sliced from the "cows" in the vats are conveyed to the refrigerated preparation line for trimming and packing. Much as New Bedford whalers processed harpooned whales, with rendering pots and flensing knives, many years ago but now, automated.

              I must be suffering from " future shock."

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              • 55chevy
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2024
                • 188

                #8
                Originally posted by dinkydow
                .....visions of a huge mass of red "meat" growing constantly inside a large stainless steel vat of "nutrients," requiring near constant "trimmings" as it grows and grows....hundreds of those vats. In row after row with automated machinery "harvesting" the "crops" of red meat. Technicians in white lab coats, clip boards in hand, circulating among the "grow vats," tweaking, making minute adjustments, while eight foot slabs of "beef" freshly sliced from the "cows" in the vats are conveyed to the refrigerated preparation line for trimming and packing. Much as New Bedford whalers processed harpooned whales, with rendering pots and flensing knives, many years ago but now, automated.

                I must be suffering from " future shock."
                Soylent Green perhaps?

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