Lab-grown insect cells could be the planet-friendly ‘meat’ of the futurehttps://grist.org/article/lab-grown-insect-cells-could-be-the-planet-friendly-meat-of-the-future/
>>20438112>insect cellsWhy insect cells, why not chicken cells or beef cells.
>>20438786Tikkun Olam.
>>20438788>Tikkun Olam.>World repairOKStill not eating bugs.
where the fuck is this "bug eating" shit meme coming from?i've heard of someone legitimately suggesting eating bugs maybe once, a decade ago, possibly more than a decade agoevery other occasion i've heard of the idea it was from someone on /ck/ having schizo meltdowns about "them" plotting to force everyone to eat bugsthis is not something i've heard anyone talk about anywhere else
sounds greati really dont see what the issue is and theres plenty of benefits people are too attached to what they know in my opinion
>>20438960you are ediblei could imagine your thigh after a couple weeks in an 8% brine pickle
>>20438850It was posited as a sustainable option during World Economic Forum a few years back. Basically the idea is that there's too many people to live long term eating high cost foods such as beef or chicken without fucking up the planet. Maybe 1% or so of the population can do that, but the rest of us will have to switch to another option. Bugs are our best bet there because they are rich in protein, and are already consumed in most of the world. It's not some kind of conspiracy theory, it's simple facts at this point.
>>20438997ok
>>20439033what is the world economic forum and why should i care
>>20439033Which proves the conspiracy is real.
>>20439033Most of the proteins in bugs are indigestible chitin. It’s like saying celery has tons of carbs, ignoring that the carbs are indigestible to humans.
>>20438786From the article>insect cells are much easier to work with. They’re easy to grow and hard to kill, with fewer temperature, pH, and oxygen, and carbon dioxide constraints, not to mention the fact that they survived for weeks without feeding. The method of metabolism in insect cells is also more conducive to mass production, relative to animal cells. Seems like a bit of a stretch though. If you're mass producing lab-grown meat you're not going to let it sit around for weeks without feeding. And the other article it links to showing that insect protein is so much better is using calculations about lab-grown meat assuming that technology never improves, which is obviously highly flawed.The articles are from 2019 anyway, so they're 5 years old at this point. There's a reason nobody ever talked about lab-grown insect meat. It's already going to be hard enough to get people to switch to lab-grown meat. Trying to do it with lab-grown insect meat would probably be impossible. Even if they had lab-grown meat that was identical to the best quality real stuff it's still going to be a bit of a challenge.
>>20439763You're behind the times, air protein is the new craze now...>Superfood protein pulled out of thin air massively scales up production https://newatlas.com/environment/solein-protein-sustainable/>Verification not required.
>>20439793Sounds odd, and interesting. But it seems like they can basically only make a protein powder from it. People are still going to want something like a piece of meat to bite into.
>>20439719it's a summer camp where the children of the billionaires who run the world decide what the future of the planet should look like when they inherit it
