Has anyone on here tried it? Tell me how it tasted and how you felt after.
I have, yes, in my university's biology department, a very small amount. Tasted like nothing.In general, it's a terrible idea even conceptually, the growth media are expensive and need to be extracted from actual animals, it's expensive, slow, has bad texture and flavor, and can't scale well. I don't know why it's still pursued instead of just focusing on growing human organs for transplant, 300 grams of grown flesh will be orders of magnitude if assembled into a human heart instead of minced beef cancer cells.
>>21658401so is it "just" a mass of cells grown on plates? if it still uses bsa (idk what else they could even be using) whats the point of it at all?
>>21658412*fbs, not bfa
>>21658412>whats the point of it at all?Seems like a good strategy to demoralize people. Make them think that the future will be a strange dystopia where something as fondly-regarded and basic as a steak will be replaced by some weird lab-creation. In other words, you will lose all the things you hold dear because there is a techno-elite working on making the future theirs and not yours.
>>21658442If it tastes the same or similar enough and it's a similar price to regular steak I'm buying it
>>21658464They are cancer cells anon
>>21658401>>21658412They're the guinea pigs. They do the dirty work and when they go under pharma comanies can buy the know-how for basically nothing.Yes, they still use FBS. They are of course urgently researching for artificial alternatives, but that his highly unlikely, given that many of the required ultra-trace signal molecules are not even KNOWN, let alone sythesized. This then also leads to an ever expanding tree of dependencies, if they need protein XY that will have to be YET AGAIN be grown in reactor by microorganisms, which requires research of how to make them produce these subsatnces in the first place. As such an artificial serum would TREMENDOUSLY expensive, rather than just taking the fetuses of a few of the overabundant pregnant cows in the huge herds used for meat production and sucking out their blood.
>>21658365Surgeons can't even make boob jobs look good and pharmaceuticals can't even make drugs without serious side effects and you want to eat lab grown meat? might as well enjoy your turbo cancer since there's no extensive testing or liability.
>>21658500>might as well enjoy your turbo cancer since there's no extensive testing or liabilityWho is liable for the cancer you get from real meat?
>>21658365tech and bio bros need to stay in their fucking lane.
>>21658517Uh oh, vegan alart! Humans have been eating meat for millions of years but cancer only existed for the past 100 years. Stop blaming it on meat and stop using teflon, cleaning products, and plastics.
No, they don't sell it in my country and I wouldn't buy it even if they did.
>>21658521growing artificial organs is a good development (for grafts, people in need of organs etc)if we could produce "synthetic" muscle/meat with a method thats not insanely expensive (like now) id eat it
>>21658401>300 grams of grown flesh will be orders of magnitude*more valuable
>>21658527>cancer only existed for the past 100 years>mummies have been found worldwide with all sorts of tumours>4000 year old Egyptian medical scrolls describe cancerous growths>Hippocrates described and named cancer (crab)Yeah, totally a new thing.
>>21658527That doesn't even make sense since other animals get cancer as well.
>>21658517>Who is liable for the cancer you get from real meat?you don't get cancer from meat. no one does.
>>21658555I don't think you know how to read.
>>21658527Cancer has been with man ever since he existed.Same with cardiovascular diseases, arteriosclerosis etc,The thing is, most of these are mostly old-age diseases. So in ancient times cancer was more rare since most people did not actually reach the age where they could develop it.It was still known but not as present when everybody could die from a flesh wound.
Trust the science
>>21658527Why are "anti vegans" (nobody mentioned vegans) so fucking retarded?
i like the idea. it has potential to offer higher quality meat at lower prices and to eliminate factory farming. but of course companies have also leaned toward something that is less nutritious and tastes worse and trying to make people okay with that.i've been following it for a long time and it's been like 10 years where they keep saying it's almost ready. countries/states banning it is stupid.
>>21658365It doesn't taste like anything. The things that give animal meat flavor are from its surroundings; what it eats, drinks, how much or little exercise it gets, etc. Lab grown meat is just tasteless flesh
>>21658527>but cancer only existed for the past 100 yearswhat
>>21658365What's cruel is if this catches on and all meat is lab grown, billions of animals will lose the opportunity to exist. Cows, pigs, chickens, they'll all go extinct. No that's cruel.
>>21658474lobsters are giant bugs
>>21659080Not gonna happen, there's people including me that don't plan on ever eating this mystery meat.At some point there'll going to be a recall on one of these brands, and it'll be because of some zootonic disease or somebody's skin cells got into the starter culture.
>>21659080That's fine if it gets rid of horrible factory farms. You can't tell me the chickens in battery cages on factory farms have any kind of life that's worth living. It just seems like a constant nightmare until they fucking die. Not to mention all the male chicks that are just hatched and then tossed into a grinder soon after because the egg industry has no use for them.>>21660158>real meat never has recalls because it was contaminated with shit
>>21658365This will be the next GMO type scandal. Cancer rates will soar.
In an ideal world I would consider it worth pursuing even if actual return is far off and unlikely. knowing the world we live in companies will not have that disciplined restraint.
>>21658365>cruelty-freeCan you buy it without vegan propaganda on the packaging?
>>21658365Not putting that shit in my body.
>>21659649You too. Your point?
