Lab Grown Meat... would you?

inertiastrength

https://youtu.be/u468xY1T8fw

I wonder if this would be cheaper to buy than traditional meat? I'd definitely give it a go! Thoughts?

canadianlbs

not me. maybe the idea just needs a few years to percolate in my head, but right now just ugh.

Lounmoun

Not if it is more costly and bland than naturally grown meat. I'd rather have a delicious veggie burger instead of that.

bbell1985

Is it the same stuff they used to make the Impossible Burger? My vegetarian boyfriend had one and loved it. But he didn't turn vegetarian because he thought meat was gross. I personally would rather have a veggie burger, or real meat.

Windrunner666

fascha wrote: »

https://youtu.be/u468xY1T8fw

I wonder if this would be cheaper to buy than traditional meat? I'd definitely give it a go! Thoughts?

I would.

neldabg

According to the video, the patties are $11 each right now and blander than regular meat, so no. If these cons are fixed in the future, I'd first wait a couple years to see how peoples' bodies respond to eating the meat before trying any myself.

billglitch

nope

GottaBurnEmAll

No. I'm a vegetarian because I dislike meat.

Mycophilia

I'd start gardening if I could grow me some bacon.

JeromeBarry1

I watched the video. Between lab-meat and cricket flour I've seen the cricket-fried steak of tomorrow.

inertiastrength

Yeah it appears to be expensive now but that will probably change in the future. Hope they can iron out the bland tasting part!

jgnatca

When I was a young lass, algae and fish farms were seen as the protein of the future.

It turns out it was more expensive than hoped. You can still buy spirulina as a protein pill.

An eye opener for me was finding out that chicken used to be the expensive meat. Until industrial farming took over.

A series well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLjzBak_tF73FEtBscWW1u0pDHhENhyJOu

Chef_Barbell

Nope no thanks.

Gallowmere1984

Until the price to taste ratio is better balanced, I'll just stick to protein powders when I need it to hit a given macro outlay.

Given that the price on this kind of thing keeps falling exponentially though, that shouldn't be too far in the future. I remember when they first started talking about this kind of thing, and the price was close to $1500 per pound produced, or something rather insane.

jgnatca

Very true, Gallowmere. This is what happens when a product moves from the lab to mass production.

I think the whole algae-as-food concept failed as it turned out to be a lot harder to keep it free of contaminant/pest than hoped.

ninerbuff

They'll figure it out with the taste. What's not mentioned here is that it will be practically hormone free, antibiotic free and chances of parasites or any organisms invading are pretty much nil. That's a big plus. And again how much less water, food and waste will be eliminated to raise cattle?
I'd actually eat it to check it out. I've had bland food when I used to compete so I probably won't be that surprised.

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nvmomketo

I just... Ew. I don't want to eat from a petri dish. It was hammered into me that eating in a lab is a bad idea. I taught that. Eating the lab experiement seems like a bad idea too.

Have human's made any foods that are actually nutritionally supperior to the food it is supposed to be imitating? I just have formula vs breast milk in my head (I grew up with formula is best teachings) and transfats and margarine is better than butter.

Now for taste, we've definitely engineered some great tastes. Doritos is genius. But I can't think of any nutritionally superior imitation foods that people have created. Or even nutritionally on par foods?

inertiastrength

nvmomketo wrote: »

I just... Ew. I don't want to eat from a petri dish. It was hammered into me that eating in a lab is a bad idea. I taught that. Eating the lab experiement seems like a bad idea too.

Have human's made any foods that are actually nutritionally supperior to the food it is supposed to be imitating? I just have formula vs breast milk in my head (I grew up with formula is best teachings) and transfats and margarine is better than butter.

Now for taste, we've definitely engineered some great tastes. Doritos is genius. But I can't think of any nutritionally superior imitation foods that people have created. Or even nutritionally on par foods?

The way I underand it is it's not a substitute it's engineered to be a biological equivalent so I don't think comparing a hamburger with a vegan version of faux meat is exactly the same so idk; I'm definitely interested to see how this plays out

kimny72

My brain says - sure, why not eat it? My heart suspects there would be taste/texture issues, and my imagination thinks of science fiction movies where we end up bioengineering our own demise. So ummm... maybe?

Gallowmere1984

kimny72 wrote: »

My brain says - sure, why not eat it? My heart suspects there would be taste/texture issues, and my imagination thinks of science fiction movies where we end up bioengineering our own demise. So ummm... maybe?

Looking at the obesity problem, I'd say we're already doing a good job of that last one.

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MelodyandBarbells

jgnatca wrote: »

Very true, Gallowmere. This is what happens when a product moves from the lab to mass production.

I think the whole algae-as-food concept failed as it turned out to be a lot harder to keep it free of contaminant/pest than hoped.

Contamination is why algae never became the new chicken???

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canadianlbs

kimny72 wrote: »

My brain says - sure, why not eat it? My heart suspects there would be taste/texture issues, and my imagination thinks of science fiction movies where we end up bioengineering our own demise. So ummm... maybe?

i'm more just psychologically disturbed by the idea. it's that thing about mothers and faces. it's absolutely woven into my definition of 'meat' that it is a foodstuff that was once conscious, that had a mother and had a face.

so a substance that is biologically meat, yet never had a mother or a face and was never 'alive' . . . that's too disturbing for me. it's not like i eat meat out of some sadistic relish about the sentience it used to have, but sentience is in my whole definition of meat.

so eating something that i ought to be able to associate with sentience, yet i can't because it just never had it in the first place . . . there's too much dissonance there for my head to deal with. it gives me the horrors.

lkpducky

Mycophilia wrote: »

I'd start gardening if I could grow me some bacon.

amusedmonkey

100% would! In fact if I had access to such a thing I would replace 100% of my meat intake with it even if it's expansive. I have to manipulate the meat in several ways to mask the taste and change the texture. If this one is blander I would like it better.

nutmegoreo

lkpducky wrote: »

Mycophilia wrote: »

I'd start gardening if I could grow me some bacon.

nutmegoreo

As for the lab grown meat, I might be willing to try it, but the idea skeeves me out a bit.

Noreenmarie1234

yes

HeliumIsNoble

I don't think I could eat it myself, but I've been looking forward to it entering the domestic market for the cat. It could revolutionise pet food for us veggie owners of cute carnivores.

nvmomketo

Vegetarian cat food....sort of. Interesting.