What if you were able to get meat, identical to what you eat, but it’s not a dead animal?
I’m not sure how I feel, but I want to hear from vegans. What’s “unethical” about cultivated meat?
I know their argument already. It’s similar to when someone is wearing a print that emulates animal fur. They don’t like it. It exacerbates a culture of meanness toward animals as if they are merely decoration.
(That’s how I feel when people wear my face on their teeshirts.) (Happens wherever I go.)
Marketing departments still haven’t decided what to call it yet, but there is increasing demand for cultivated (aka cultured, cell-grown, or no-kill) meat, at least in Singapore. That’s where US-based Good Meat has teamed up with food-processing behemoth ADM to build “the world’s largest bioreactors to produce cultivated meat,” according to the Guardian. Eventually, the facility is expected to produce 13,000 tons of cell-grown chicken and beef per year—a teeny sliver of global meat consumption but enough for a proper test run in the marketplace. Singapore is the only country where cultivated meat has regulatory approval, but the USDA and FDA are working on it.
Josh Tetrick, CEO of Eat Just, Good Meat’s parent company, says the bioreactors present “significant” engineering challenges and require major investment, but there’s also big potential to move society away from slaughtered meat. “I think our grandchildren are going to ask us about why we ate meat from slaughtered animals back in 2022,” Tetrick said, saying the product “will enable us to eat meat without all the harm, without bulldozing forests,” and without the enormous carbon and methane footprints produced by the traditional meat industry. Caroline Bushnell of the nonprofit Good Food Institute said it could be a “gamechanger in the race to bring meat grown from cells to restaurants, supermarkets, and dining tables.”
Another company, Upside Foods, recently raised $400 million to boost production with help from major companies like Tyson and Cargill. Per CNN, company founder Uma Valeti says these products are “real meat” and the process is “similar to brewing beer, but instead of growing yeast or microbes, we grow animal cells.” Scientists start by harvesting real animal cells through biopsy and then give them the nutrients they need to replicate naturally. As for the taste, Upside Foods COO Amy Chen says it was “simultaneously one of the most unremarkable things and one of the most remarkable things I’ve ever eaten. It’s just meat.”
Soylent Red.
Not on my dinner table. Fuck you Bill Gates and every other regressive who thinks they know better than me.
It’d be great to be able to eat ‘meat’ without killing any animals. But it’s generations away.
“It’d be great to be able to eat ‘meat’ without killing any animals.”
That’s why God put them here. Like my favorite bumper sticker says, I love Animals, They’re tasty.
@Anonymous June 12, 2022 at 9:49 pm – “…It’d be great to be able to eat ‘meat’ without killing any animals…”
Yeah, and it would be great to to have a communist utopian society without killing any of it’s citizens.
Meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty fucking good. It’s a primal thing. That reminder that we may be human, but we’re still animals. Those that can’t handle that very real fact should shut the fuck up or kill themselves. End of discussion.
I’ll be eating grass fed liberals before I eat that shit.
I would try it but I doubt it could compete with that 38oz blood red prime rib from Farmer Browns Steakhouse in Waterloo.
You really don’t want to know how the sausage is made.
lmao … I wonder, in the (near) future, will vegan children self-identify as cows?
might as well … most of the little tikes are going ‘bovine’ at an alarming rate anyhow
“I’ll be eating grass fed liberals before I eat that shit.”
Have you ever tried to clean one of those bastids. Almost impossible.
@Brad- not not yet but I know there’s several dozen long pork references online that will show me how. Figure I’ll soak them in buttermilk and use a lot of butter to make them taste a little better. Maybe just smoke or slow cook them and go heavy on the black pepper. Probably taste like shit but better than frankenmeat or bugs.
Chris
Well I’ve read never rap them in Bacon. LOL
What’s worse than cultivated meat? Cultivated meat from Singapore.
How will you know what is in the “meat”? I can imagine, as Tony R hinted, that China corners the market on producing cultivated meat. Then imagine what kind of crap they’ll put in for their overseas customers. No thank you!!
If a ranch harvests an animal today and then raises another, and another, and another.. what forest is being bulldozed in order to do it? Are ranchers feeding them wood?
I’ve had cheap lunchmeat with that weird iridescent sheen, I swear it was grown in a vat.
@ecp
If they’re muslim ranchers or just really lonely, they might be giving them some wood. You never know 🤔
50+ year vegetarian here, and I’ll pass. thanx
60+ year omnivore here and most recently modified carnivore and I want nothing to do with fake meat.
FJB
Gross.
Think maybe Chinese owned Smithfield pork processor is being shut down to facilitate food shortages and quicken the production of engineered meat and not because of costs?
They could put anything in this fake meat.
I’ve never seen an agenda move so fast.
Removing farming out of the hands of the people and into the hands of globalists’ and corporations? I’ll pass.
Taking a self-sufficient element out of society where small and big farms can provide food to society. Now lets globalist and corporations make our meat for us and farming and the knowledge to do it goes away in society.
It seems a trend now has been to find local ranchers and order 1/4 to 1 whole cow or pig and have it processed locally. I have 1/4 cow grass fed and grain finished coming in October.
Hmmm … I wonder if they can grow penises … BIG penises …
Mystery meat, it’s what’s for dinner! No thanks, I’ll pass, they can keep their fake meat and I’ll continue to eat real meat like beef, pork chicken etc. I come from a family of self-sufficient farmers and can raise my own meat if I have to with the help of my son.
@ Bill
Farmer Brown’s is great, but Brother Sebastian’s is my go to.
Fake meat for fake people.
Fake men, fake women, fake politicians, fake republicans, fake demonrats, fake preachers, fake teachers, fake corporations, fake cops, fake justice.
Our once great nation is fast becoming a sick fever-dream.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Cultivating meat? That’s what farming and ranching is, right?