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Lab Grown Meat... would you?
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Contamination is why algae never became the new chicken???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.
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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.9 -
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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.1
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As for the lab grown meat, I might be willing to try it, but the idea skeeves me out a bit.1
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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.7
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Vegetarian cat food....sort of. Interesting.0
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Wonder if some of the reason it's bland tasting is that it might be too lean. Slaughtered meat in its natural state is both muscle and fat cells, even if there is little visible marbling.1
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This is what happens when I post without proofreading. I shouldn't be allowed internet...
And yes, I was thinking pet food FOR cats, not eating cats!
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The only way would be if the entire planet's food supply was somehow completely destroyed and it was eat that or perish. Otherwise, no. I believe in the food chain and we're still at the top.3
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Nope. I will stick with what I can grow and kill myself thank you. Not a fan of lab made food of any kind. I make exceptions for some protein powder here and there.5
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I would eat it with a fox, in a box, or on a train...
I would eat meat here or there...I would eat meat from anywhere.
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I don't understand the aversion. It's meat, not a chemically manufactured alternative. Real muscle cells from real animals. It had a face, but that face wasn't slaughtered is all the difference.
I do wonder how nutrition would be affected, though. Livestock use feed, and that feed somewhat affects nutrition. Would the growing media be considered "feed" and affect nutrition as well? How would the fact that these sells have not been used the typical way muscle cells are used affect things? What about fat cells, which often give slaughtered meat its distinct flavor? Would they, at one point, start growing fat cells as well to fine tune the flavor? Would they "exercise" the meat, or can the electric stimulation be considered exercise? I'm more fascinated and curious than anything.12 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »I don't understand the aversion. It's meat, not a chemically manufactured alternative. Real muscle cells from real animals. It had a face, but that face wasn't slaughtered is all the difference.
I do wonder how nutrition would be affected, though. Livestock use feed, and that feed somewhat affects nutrition. Would the growing media be considered "feed" and affect nutrition as well? How would the fact that these sells have not been used the typical way muscle cells are used affect things? What about fat cells, which often give slaughtered meat its distinct flavor? Would they, at one point, start growing fat cells as well to fine tune the flavor? Would they "exercise" the meat, or can the electric stimulation be considered exercise? I'm more fascinated and curious than anything.
I'm pretty much only concerned about the taste.2 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »I don't understand the aversion. It's meat, not a chemically manufactured alternative. Real muscle cells from real animals. It had a face, but that face wasn't slaughtered is all the difference.
I do wonder how nutrition would be affected, though. Livestock use feed, and that feed somewhat affects nutrition. Would the growing media be considered "feed" and affect nutrition as well? How would the fact that these sells have not been used the typical way muscle cells are used affect things? What about fat cells, which often give slaughtered meat its distinct flavor? Would they, at one point, start growing fat cells as well to fine tune the flavor? Would they "exercise" the meat, or can the electric stimulation be considered exercise? I'm more fascinated and curious than anything.
Amusingly, I could see the "paleo farmers" having a conniption fit when the price of their grass-fed beef eventually got driven into the crapper, if said lab meat were n-3 infused and contained comparable micronutrients.3 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »I don't understand the aversion. It's meat, not a chemically manufactured alternative. Real muscle cells from real animals. It had a face, but that face wasn't slaughtered is all the difference.
I do wonder how nutrition would be affected, though. Livestock use feed, and that feed somewhat affects nutrition. Would the growing media be considered "feed" and affect nutrition as well? How would the fact that these sells have not been used the typical way muscle cells are used affect things? What about fat cells, which often give slaughtered meat its distinct flavor? Would they, at one point, start growing fat cells as well to fine tune the flavor? Would they "exercise" the meat, or can the electric stimulation be considered exercise? I'm more fascinated and curious than anything.
I'm with you. As long as taste is good, price is acceptable, and there's nothing I consider ethically unacceptable in the production then I'd be fine with it.
And I can answer one of your questions, anyway
Yes, the growing medium would affect both nutrition and taste, though there are limits as to how much they can be affected without tinkering with the tissues themselves.0
Which, I mean, wasn't that or of place - look at the topic we're reading!! 
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