Future Food - Animal-Free Meat

[EddMarkStarr]

There's an environmental cost to raising industrial livestock for meat consumption, the greatest being the amount of water it takes for food animals raised in parts of the world where water is precious.
The idea of meat substitutes is nothing new, but meat grown in a lab, or "cultivated", is beginning to make an impact.
At least, the business of lab-grown meat is drawing venture capital investors to processors like, Upside Foods, in San Francisco, USA.

But just like all Planet Saving ideas, only the rich have choices. The poor do what's necessary to survive.

 

[Rickrock]

I never heard of this before. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. On the surface it sounds like a good idea and I am looking forward to seeing how it evolves.

 

[ShadowCat]

Tried Impossible jerky it was like chewing moist playground wood chips! And the taste stuck on my tongue even after eating other things AND brushing with listerine!

 

[eddielee]

So, this would be living meat, grown in a lab? I wonder if it quivers and reacts to pin pricks and heat? There is a bit of a creepy factor.

 

[Vannie]

I'm having a nice BLT with apple wood smoked bacon.

 

[Peloso]

So, this would be living meat, grown in a lab? I wonder if it quivers and reacts to pin pricks and heat? There is a bit of a creepy factor.

Can you fuck it?

 

[NotHardUp1]

And to think the problem was once that they put soy in burgers at cheap places and in school cafeterias.

I welcome the processed food revolution that is going to relieve some of the global warming effect. They said in the '80's that they could already make a ribeye that one would have difficulty identifying as soy-based, but it was prohibitively expensive at that time.

It's taken over 30 years, but we're finally getting there.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Tried Impossible jerky it was like chewing moist playground wood chips! And the taste stuck on my tongue even after eating other things AND brushing with listerine!

Upside Foods says they can produce beef, chicken, pork and seafood flavors. This makes me think of Garden Burger, that has a unique flavor of its own.

The real goal of lab grown meat is to stop the adoption of eating insects as a source of cheap protein.

 

[Nude_Dude]

Tried Impossible jerky it was like chewing moist playground wood chips! And the taste stuck on my tongue even after eating other things AND brushing with Listerine!

That sounds to me, more like REGULAR jerky - as I remember it ?

 

[Alistair]

Can you fuck it?

I fuck my ground beef all the time.

 

[Vannie]

Me too. ^ Everyone always remarks how moist my meatballs are.

 

[Alistair]

^ Everyone raves about my meatloaf.

 

[Vannie]

Maybe a ^ little salty and gloppy

 

[nycguydowntown]

I tried this stuff---had some hope for it but the smell while its cooking is horrible ---doesnt smell like food---and smell is important for taste---never tried it again.

 

[Nude_Dude]

So, this would be living meat, grown in a lab?

I wonder if it quivers and reacts to pin pricks and heat?

There is a bit of a creepy factor.

NO - it has NEVER "lived"
It is simply laboratory cloned flesh

NO - it has none, nor has EVER has had, a brain

DEBATABLE - depending on the individual


It will be "interesting" to see who the product will marketed to
I don't see any "dad" swapping his butcher's 1lb premium sirloin - for a standardised shrink-wrapped store product
Nor any vegan/vegetarian wanting to develop a taste for "meat"

Time will TELL, I guess ?


ULTIMATELY - it's a a positive for the environment - and methane gas production
In Australia, we have a growth industry in kangaroo meat
I'm not sure why - but kangaroos don't FART

 

[eddielee]

^^That makes me feel a little better about it, but still, I'm not certain I would try it.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

As a passing thought, engineered meat sounds good to me. But if I really think about it I'm haunted by thoughts of the unknown.

What if one of the boosters used to promote cellular growth remains in the finished product - harmless unless exposed to heat during cooking?

Five years later you end up with Kuato from Total Recall!