Anyone who does not support the lab grown meat industry needs to be educated on it. There is a visceral reaction people have to lab grown meat that is not scientific in any way. The FDA recently approved lab grown chicken on a small scale, and is working on approval of lab grown beef, pork and tuna (RFK is seeking to overturn this). This is an emerging industry that still has some big technical, social and political challenges to overcome, but we need to be cheering it on! Here’s some of the benefits of lab grown meat:
Greatly reduced climate harm. Livestock contribute to 10-15% of global greenhouse gases. The
Amazon rain forest is being burned down to make grazing ground for cattle. If all humans ate beef like Americans, the planet could not sustain it.
No dangerous bacteria like ecoli in the meat, and thus less antibiotics as well.
No growth hormones. Animal cells are grown with amino acids and nutrients.
No parasites (worms, etc) in the meat. Something we all try not to think about when having our dinner.
Far less saturated fat, which means less heart attacks and strokes, less deaths, lower overall health care costs for society, etc.
Greater nutritional value. Lab grown techniques could make the food much healthier in many ways.
Potentially better taste. We’re not there yet but it’s a nascent industry and when it matures flavor will be better.
Potentially lower costs. Again, we are far from there yet, but if viable techniques can be scaled up to feed the entire planet it’s hard to image it won’t be more cost effective than raising livestock.
And certainly not least, no loss of animal life. The documentary “Food Inc” created a lot of vegetarians. The absolute horror and cruelty of factory farming is difficult to even describe adequately. I’ve often mused that to chickens, cows, pigs and a few other animals, the Earth is truly like some science fiction planet from Hell.
And as SDG pointed out on the Discord lifeboat site: No face. If they start growing faces in the lab I'll rescind my support!
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Anyone who does not support the lab grown meat industry needs to be educated on it. There is a visceral reaction people have to lab grown meat that is not scientific in any way. The FDA recently approved lab grown chicken on a small scale, and is working on approval of lab grown beef, pork and tuna (RFK is seeking to overturn this). This is an emerging industry that still has some big technical, social and political challenges to overcome, but we need to be cheering it on! Here’s some of the benefits of lab grown meat:
Greatly reduced climate harm. Livestock contribute to 10-15% of global greenhouse gases. The
Amazon rain forest is being burned down to make grazing ground for cattle. If all humans ate beef like Americans, the planet could not sustain it.
No dangerous bacteria like ecoli in the meat, and thus less antibiotics as well.
No growth hormones. Animal cells are grown with amino acids and nutrients.
No parasites (worms, etc) in the meat. Something we all try not to think about when having our dinner.
Far less saturated fat, which means less heart attacks and strokes, less deaths, lower overall health care costs for society, etc.
Greater nutritional value. Lab grown techniques could make the food much healthier in many ways.
Potentially better taste. We’re not there yet but it’s a nascent industry and when it matures flavor will be better.
Potentially lower costs. Again, we are far from there yet, but if viable techniques can be scaled up to feed the entire planet it’s hard to image it won’t be more cost effective than raising livestock.
And certainly not least, no loss of animal life. The documentary “Food Inc” created a lot of vegetarians. The absolute horror and cruelty of factory farming is difficult to even describe adequately. I’ve often mused that to chickens, cows, pigs and a few other animals, the Earth is truly like some science fiction planet from Hell.
And as SDG pointed out on the Discord lifeboat site: No face. If they start growing faces in the lab I'll rescind my support!
(Originally posted on the old Zone.)