Keep in mind it's not just the environmental impact of reducing greenhouse gases that switching to lab grown meat will accomplish. It could also DRASTICALLY help with overpopulation. Around 40% of Earth's habitable land is used for growing livestock, because livestock need large, flat areas of grassland. Structurally, the livestock industry is horizontal. What if it was vertical? If we put the bioreactors for meet production in skyscrapers, or underground, we could reduce the amount of land used for meat production to an INSANE degree. Imagine all of a sudden being able to use another 40% of Earth's land area. This is also part of why lab grown meat would very successfully combat deforestation. There are a lot of added benefits to this technology besides reducing the impact that raw production costs have on the environment.
I would buy it even if it were slightly more expensive, I would eat it happily knowing I have made a better environmental choice and have avoided causing an animal to suffer its destruction.
I would happily buy it if I could afford it, but I do not have much money. But I see the benefits to the environment and to animal welfare, not to mention it is less likely to have food-borne disease because it is grown in a controlled environment and therefore does not need antibiotics, and with some genetic modifications we could alter the texture, taste, smell, behavior when cut or cooked, appearance, and other culinary properties as well as make the meat healthier by adding nutrients and removing harmful components.
@ߏߊߟߏߡ processed foods? This would be grown meat. We already have processed foods, this would be more like growing an animal from an embryo but without all of the other organs and bones and most importantly: brain! The whole point of this is to have the exact thing you want, natural meat I presume. Imagine if we farmed humans for meat. Would it be better for the humans that are being slaughtered to be instead grown in a factory without brains? I can understand wanting to keep it in the status quo, but have you ever cut a pigs throat? Ever stunned a cow or lamb? Maybe chopped off the head of a chicken? It is terrible. I eat meat regularly and love it, but the way we get it is horrifying. If it can be done another way, then me personally, I will embrace it. This isnt processed food. Processed food is when you add things like salt, sugar, or oil to preserve the taste or lifespan of the food. Edit: idk why the text is right aligned and all fucked up. It could only be for me, but the formatting is trash on this post for some reason.
One of the huge adavantages of lab-grown meat (showcased by the number of swimming pools needed to replace 1% of meat production) is the vastly smaller physical footprint of the food. The collosal amount of land deforested to raise cattle, or to raise feed crops for livestock could be eliminated and allowed to re-wild.
That's a problem with conventional raising of beef, not of cattle ranching as a whole. Raising cattle on land that is already prairie is absolutely fine and even beneficial to that land. Yes, we shouldn't be cutting down forests to raise cattle, but we also shouldn't be erecting more buildings with massive parking lots and try to say that's more ecologically friendly than grazing cattle in a manner that mimics the old buffalo herds.
@@TheSamba37 Yes, herding can be beneficial to the land through the manure left behind and breaking up of soil from movement. I remember seeing an article about reintroduction of Buffalo in one of the Native tribal areas in one of the Dakotas. Practices in regenerative agriculture, not the single use practices we use today, are far better for sustainability than 187 Olympic swimmimg pool sized incubators that require an enormous amount of energy to run to gain 1% market share. As a practicing permaculture hobbyists, the amount of food you can produce (fruit, meat, veggies) in a small area like an acre is amazing when one works with nature, not against it.
@@kelly_kelly_kelly8575 the carbon cattle put off in the atmosphere can never be offset by the benefits of that carbon in the soil. Just a new way for beef farmers to sell beef to people that don't fact check their marketing.
I'd happily eat lab-grown meat if it were produced ethically and sustainably, but I think insect protein is likely a better option, although the 'yuck' factor is higher, at least in the West.
I don't think these products are aimed at us adults because we're very difficult to change, not impossible of course. It's our children that are far easier to mold.
@@huldu Good point. Currently, every culture around the world teaches children to eat animals and what comes out of them, with very few exceptions. In one culture, eating dogs are food. In other cultures, pigs, cows, and sheep are food. India has a high percentage of vegetarians, but most of them are taught that milk is fine. Here is a very engaging video from a psychologist which explains. It has been viewed almost a million times. ua-cam.com/video/ao2GL3NAWQU/v-deo.html
Fortunately, humans do not need to eat animals, including insects to thrive. In fact, a fully plant based diet (done properly) reduces your chance of several of our most common chronic, deadly diseases.
@@Itsgay2read Biologists classify humans as omnivores based on observed behavior in the majority, and the fact that we can digest both plants and animals. Our ancestors had to eat whatever they could get a hold of to survive long enough to reproduce. That included bugs, the equivalent of road kill, and sometimes other humans. Just because we can digest something, doesn't mean we should. Fortunately, most of us today can be more selective. We can eat a diet which is better for our health, longevity, our environment, and our fellow Earthlings- a fully plant based diet centered around whole foods. Animals in the wild have to eat each other. We do not. Those populations who need to eat animals do not justify doing so for those of us who don't need to.
Once it is affordable and proven not to have a large carbon footprint to produce it than I would be happy to have cultivated meat. Hopefully one day soon
@@biochemicalvegan8972 I would prefer meat that is synthesized in a similar manner, that tastes great, and will provide no guilt. Not to mention, not all nutrients listed in a vegan diet are what a person needs.
@@donkeykongisbetterthanmari7495 And what nutrients are missing in a vegan diet that arent in fortified foods or supplements. The American dietetics association actually says that vegan diets are adequate and may provide health benefits
@@biochemicalvegan8972 Following an all-vegan balanced diet isn't exactly cheap where I'm from. You should also factor in allergies, so if you'd go vegan you'd be dependent on only a tiny variety of vegan supplements of specific foods.
Yes I would eat it. It of course depends on what it tastes like and how expensive it is. It has the potential to be massively cheaper than traditional ranching. Theoretically, you should be able to get it down to prices similar to plants, because you don't have to grow and sustain a whole cow for a cow lifespan - you just grow the meat.
I feel like this will be of HUGE importance to our future and I'm really pretty excited about it - one of my favorite science fiction series has "vat beef" and other such references all over. For that setting, from that author, the idea of lab grown meat is a thing the characters take for granted. Some of them are even repulsed by "real meat." Realistically I very much doubt that humans will ever COMPLETELY stop raising animals for meat. But if we can reach a place where we don't have to subsidize the industry - where we can kind of have our cows and eat them too, haha - wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?
Well, there *are* actually a lot of people repulsed by the thought of eating real meat in real life. Vegetarians and vegans, they're called. I'm not one, but I've certainly known a few. And sometimes I can sort of see their point. Overall, though, I think I prefer real meat to artificial, most of the time.
I'm all for it if it can be done ethically considering the donor cows and the environmental impact. If we could create healthy lab grown meat without causing harm, I would definitely eat it. I'm also very interested in the meat alternative Fature's Fynd, which is a fungus that has all the amino acida and is easy to produce. That's being sold in stores already. I suspect I could quite happily live on that, too.
Even if a small amount of the material used for this process is produced in unethical ways, it seems clear that its far more ethical than the current factory farming process. A huge step forward.
@@billyte1265 Yeah, I agree. I guess I just try to be accurate as far as what I would actually want. But I 100% agree with you that this would be a vast improvement.
@@razonyespiritu Yeah, I know. I tend to add a lot of qualifiers in comments like this. There tend to be a lot of people who come to the comments sections on subjects like this just looking for some opening to argue or criticise. So, I tend to make it at least a little more difficult for them. Though, people find ways if they're determined enough to. But I happen to agree with you in this case. It's tough to draw the line sometimes when it comes to stuff like this. So, how long do you think it will be before someone comes to criticize that comment? 🤣
I think cooperation to a degree (limited published techniques etc) could be helpful, but competition is what drives innovation. Lets just make sure no one can patent the best process to make this happen at scale.
@@FluffyEmmy1116 Capitalism is the only reason you have a choice in anything bud, lol. Thank Capitalism for not eating caterpillars and grass for lunch.
Yes, I would eat lab grown meat. Meat substitutes are already making their way into our meal planning. As the science and technology improves I am sure that many individuals will choose to take advantage of these options. This is especially true IF the alternatives can be made less expensive than actual animal products.
Thanks for this excellent video, especially for the little interviews and epic animations. I do research in lab-grown meat and am so happy to see the rise in popularity of my PhD thesis topic.
Its all about the price. If they can manage to make it to cost as much or less than real meat - people will buy it. Coz the average person cares about the animals and the environment, but far far far more they care about their own convenience and personal expenses.
This just popped up in my YT feed, I didn't look for it. As a lifelong vegetarian, becoming vegan about 5/6 years ago, I'm perfectly happy with my current diet and range of cuisine, If lab-grown meat became available at a reasonable price I would try it but actually I'm not very excited by the prospect.
Woah this is the first I’ve heard of Fetal Bovine Serum! That’s crazy…and I’m way less excited about lab grown meat now. Honestly, I researched the meat industry a fair amount recently and came to the conclusion that I needed to eat less. So I started doing “meatless mondays” and that’s steadily snowballed into me being meat free more and more often. For instance, this week, I’ll end up eating vegetarian dinners 4/5 days of the week! And a lot of researchers I found feel that a 50% reduction of our meat consumption will get us where we need to be from a climate change point of view. So my view has become the famous saying “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Look up permaculture and restoration ag practices. Skip Wikipedia as a source as that has corporate conglomerate people trying to mischaracterize them to promote synthetic input type ag.
@@b_uppy Look up veganic agriculture. That is the gold standard for producing crops sustainably, and with minimal environmental impact, including fresh water usage.
Kudos for significantly reducing your purchases of meat for our environment. You might not be aware of the benefits of making the switch to a fully plant based diet. 1-Your own health (vegans are less likely to get several deadly chronic diseases) 2-Helping to end animal agriculture would reduce the chance of another pandemic & other zoonotic diseases 3-Helping to end animal ag would reduce the chance of the development of an antibiotic resistant pathogen. 4-Animal ag wastes a huge amount of fresh water. Each vegan saves 219,000 gallons of water every year! 5-Animal ag is a major cause of water pollution 6-Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation 7-Animal ag increases PTSD and spousal abuse in the people who work in slaughterhouses. Workers in meat packing facilities often endure terrible, dangerous working conditions. 8-Animal ag is a major cause of the loss of habitat and biodiversity 9-Animal welfare, obviously 10- It is the single most effective way for each of us to fight climate change and environmental degradation. 11- Longer lifespan. 12- Healthier weight (vegans were the only dietary group in the Adventist Studies that had an average BMI in the recommended range.) 13- A healthy plant based diet significantly reduces the chances of ED later in life, and even 1 meal can improve bedroom performance 14- A plant based diet could save money! You could reduce your food budget by one third! 15- A vegan world would save 8 million human lives a year, and $1.5 trillion in health care costs (Oxford Study) Links for some of these are at my channel under "About." If you doubt any of them, I would be glad to cite evidence from credible sources to back them up. UA-cam only allows a certain number of links at my channel.
@Some Guy 'Sustainable' is a greenwashing term that makes degenerative ag practices sound better. It's claim to 'being the gold standard' is only because it is a source for centralized corporate conglomerate plundering of the ecosystem and people who are operating under simplistic paradigms.
Personally, I would try clean, cultured meat made using lab technology, but only if it were made without bovine growth serum. I would not eat it on a regular basis, because a whole food plant based diet is better for health, vitality, and longevity compared to a diet which includes animals or what comes out of them.
What was not mentioned enough in this video was the 3D printing of structured meat, like steaks. The structure is printed (muscle and fat) and then placed into incubation where the cells finish developing and differentiatiing, and eventually they turn into fibrous tissue (a cut of marbled meat, in the case of a steak) that can be cooked. 3D-printed cultivated (cultured) meat.
I'd absolutely eat lab grown meat. I hope in my lifetime that'll be something I can buy at the grocery store. I'd even be willing to pay more for it. Though, in the meantime I've been really impressed with Impossible burgers. That leghemoglobin really makes a world of difference. I'd really like to try some Nature's Fynd and their Fy protein too. It's produced by a fungus first found in the hot springs at Yellowstone. I've enjoyed what I've tried of Quorn's fungal protein so I'm glad to see another company expanding that market. Imo it would be best to subsidize multiple sources of alternative protein instead of putting all our eggs in one basket.
you're happy to eat a product that was only possible from exploiting unborn calves? & the way they "euthinase" them btw is with a needle into major blood vessels & draining their blood until they're dead! Horrible, horrible way for a baby to die! That's what you're supporting if you eat lab meat! You're saying creating a whole industry to harvest those calves (which is what theyv'e done) was ok by your ethics!
Is it really meat that people are addicted to or salt/sugar/fat? Vegetarian and Vegan options have exponentially expanded even without having lab grown meat to back them up. Maybe it is the idea that people are being asked to give something up, regardless of what it is.
I've loved the idea of this for ages and can't wait to be able to try it - imagine the scope too, once they've nailed the basics! Fancy a buffalo steak? Yep! Panda burger, hell yeah! Otter curry - why the hell not!
I wish the Terra series was placed on high school science or even social science curriculum. Young people need to be able to think about so many things these days.
The current gov't subsidies are massive welfare programs for the meat & dairy industries because American's really want their meat & cheese, but we give barely anything to fruit & vegetable growers, the imbalance is massive. The current system just isn't sustainable in the long term without some major shift in thought and production, lab grown meat can play a part. I'd like to see an environmental impact comparison between current industrial meat production and lab grown meat as it evolves. I suspect lab grown meat will have less of an impact, but I'm not educated enough on the subject to know.
Let's make sure those impact studies compare permaculture/restoration ag grown foods versus lab 'meats' and you'd be embarassed at the horrible costs of centrally grown meats are.
If it tastes just as good, and just as cheap, I think most people will eat it. Right now, polls show about half would eat it. But I remember polls about how many people would take the covid-19 vaccine and also showed low numbers. Right now, the % of people vaccinated is much higher than what those poll numbers show. The thing will be true for lab grown meat as long as it passes the standards. Even higher if you get the cost lower than factory farmed meat.
Really, the thing about flavor, texture and all that is based on *our* experiences. If you never had real meat to begin with then you have no reference points. That's our future children.
Since I quit eating meat dairy and eggs, I have discovered so many new flavors and textures of new dishes and ingredients. Ethnic cuisines offer a lot of variety for a plant based diet.
I would absolutely eat it but I dont think it will be a common, affordable choice for a very long time due to the costs of scaling up large scale production.
I tend to disagree with the message of the video. It says that we shouldn’t be excited about this because it’s just a nascent technology and it’s very expensive. However, if you look at trends, the price has been coming down and as soon as it reaches parity with normal meat, it’s only a matter of time until people realise it’s just plain better than normal meat. No antibiotics, no hormones (I guess?), no adulteration, no dirty slaughterhouses, fewer emitions, etc etc. Just as the internet, the smartphone, the PC, the car, were once “just nascent tech”, I would vehemently disagree with anyone back then who said you shouldn’t be excited. The economic incentives for this product are absurd, and this is likely to drive innovation. Not to mention all the land area that could be reclaimed for wildlife and rain forests when this tech becomes more economical than raising cows. Also, I don’t see why the lack of reactors should be a problem?? I’m sure reactor producers would be more than happy to 10x their production. Also, the tech is on a phase of proof of concept. Once the first viable products start to appear, investments in the area will explode (wait, aren’t they exploding already? An exponential trend rises very quickly)
I’ve been vegan for 2 1/2 years but I would try cultivated meat. I actually just started eating eggs again because I have trouble absorbing nutrients and use to be anemic. I get the eggs from my grandparents who have pet chickens. Cultivated meat is a great idea. Cultivated fish or seafood would also be really cool💯🍣
If the eggs alone aren't enough for you, look into feral pig & kangaroo meat & check the ethics of any other meats the local supplier of the above you find is selling, such as deer or other local feral pests. Deer is sometimes farmed, rabbit is almost always farmed, so you'll want to avoid that, but any animals that are being culled for population control or crop protection are dying regardless of if they're eaten or not & if not eaten, the cheaper poisoning will be used, but if you eat them, you can transform their death from a slow, painful poisoning, to a quick & humane, but more expensive shooting. Pet chickens are great, good on you for finding that option, but just suggesting the above if you need more than that :)
@@suzq2744 yw, good luck :) I mean hopefully the eggs will be enough for your needs, but if not, it might be helpful for you. Kangaroo is the one I've found with the highest welfare standards & it's available globally & is also the easiest one to search for a seller of, since pig/hog/boar that's wild/feral has too many name combos to look up & lots of "game meat" operators sell farmed meat of species considered "game". Kangaroo is NEVER farmed & it's got really strict standards on shooting for human consumption, to the point that any unethical shooters simply switch to shooting as pet food, or switch to shooting wild pigs instead, where standards are not as high. Basically kangaroo must be an adult male, taken out with a single shot to the head, or it cannot be sold as human food & all revenue is lost to the shooter, so they don't miss & those not sold as human meat are sold as pet meat (with less controls) or shot by farmers & bodies left to rot (with no controls) or die from starvation & disease, cause humans have been the only apex predators controlling kangaroo populations in Australia for 30,000 years. Animal activists have tried extensively to obtain footage of abuse in the kangaroo industry & if it existed, it would be VERY easy for them to get, but they have never managed to obtain any, which to me says a lot! They point to regulations that allow joeys to be hit on the head with a rock to dispose of etc, but if that was happening, they could VERY easily stick a gps tracker onto a roo shooter's vehicle, see where he goes, then go to that location & find the joey's bodies, along with any not taken out with a single shot & so left to rot & any other carnage, but they have simply never managed to obtain the footage they could so easily get if abuse was real. Abuse, to some extent, is real for pet food & "pest control" but it's only ones not subjected to human consumption meat programs that end up in those programs, so human meat consumption stops it, that's the main reason I like to eat it, for the welfare benefits. Kangaroo meat is expensive outside Australia, but those selling it are going to be the most ethical game meat sellers you can find & should be able to give good information about the background of the other meat they sell. Check with feral pigs, if they were trapped & kept in cages for a while before slaughter or if they were shot straight from wild & with all others, check if farmed or wild. Small animals like rabbit tend to be too expensive to shoot wild ones, hence almost always farmed (in tiny seperate cages, since they fight if kept in groups & females are kept near continously pregnant too, so imo, they should be avoided for ethical reasons) There are meat options that are good ethically :) Insects have some good ethics about them too, there can be less total insect deaths from eating insects than from eating foods like soy, due to whole plants being fed to insects v only beans when eaten directly by humans & the amount of spraying of insects on growing crops, especially for human consumption. Less evidence for insects feeling pain than for plants too. Like with smaller livestock, such as chickens though, insects are treated with a lot of disregard during production & harvest, so research needed as to if you personally feel ok with their ethics or not. I definately think the ethics of crickets etc is better than the ethics of farming chickens etc, but I'd rather larger wild animals that were going to die anyway & where the death becomes more humane if the meat has value/is eaten by humans. Everyone has different conserns & focuses in ethics though, so obviously you have to do what's right for you, not nessesarily what I believe in. All the best to you with your health & ethical decision making & make sure you give those pet chickens plenty of cuddles :))
@@mehere8038 I live in the US so I don’t know how easy it would be to kangaroo but I’ve been considering having some bivalves like mussels because they don’t have a nervous system or a brain so they can’t feel any pain. It’s not so much an ethics issue for me anymore, (as I noticed there were some pretty big problems and inconsistencies in the vegan movement, which is why I recently left Veganism) so for me now it’s just generally trying to reduce suffering much as possible but yes around here deer are a pretty big inconvenience and hunting is allowed certain times of the year. Venison cannot be sold in stores here so I would only be able to get it directly from a hunter or occasionally at local food pantries💯💚
@@suzq2744 Try doing a search for "buy kangaroo meat" & see what comes up in your area, you might be surprised :) & the result/s you find should be a good, reliable source for the other foods like deer/venison too. The US is a big market for kangaroo meat, there's a lot sold there! Has some pretty insane markups put onto it though Thing about the hunting allowed only some times of the year though is that it means they're not really a pest species, cause if they were, unlimited hunting would be allowed. Same with not being allowed to sell in stores, why is that? I'm guessing so as to keep sold amounts down to protect the population & prevent overhunting? Sounds like they're managing hunting so as to keep the deer thriving there, so I kinda have mixed feelings on that one. Still better than farmed meat though of course, but not really meat from animals that are going to die regardless of whether eaten or not. Feral pigs are the one that have no restrictions on hunting, cause they are a legitimate pest & poisons are used to control most of them. I'm guessing poisons aren't used to control deer in your area (they are in a handful of areas), so yeh, I feel like they're not a fully authentically needed cull, but that said, if predators have been eliminated from the area, it kinda brings them in line with the kangaroos, where a lack of hunting is going to result in problems in the long term, just as long as those shooting them are highly experienced & are able to take them out without suffering is I guess what's most important to me, again, up to you to decide what's important to you ethically. In kangaroos, only 11% of the number that's assessed as needing to be culled to keep the population stable are actually eaten by humans, so PLENTY of available meat that can be added to the human system without harming animal numbers (and actually helping them, cause of the number that starve or die of starvation with current low takes compared to what's needed for stability) & yeh, I totally agree with you re inconsistencies in the vegan movement. Muscles/oysters etc are another great option imo, cause, like you say, no brains, or at least less than current research is suggesting is there in plants. Health results have shown better for humans eating a plant based diet with fish compared to a pure plant based diet too, don't think they looked at the bivalves, but I'm guessing that would likely be similar to fish. Gotta watch sustainability with them, but certainly very doable. Jellyfish is another possible option on that, but probably not in the US, I know in Japan, they've had lots of problems with too many jellyfish causing issues, reason seems to come down to overfishing, cause fish eat the jellyfish, so logically, they should be eating the jellyfish too if eating the fish, so as to keep everything in balance & again no real brains in them. The other one I sometimes engage in is holitically farmed, organic beef, because I really like that system, really good for the environment & so I want to support it with my dollars. It does cause deaths of animals that otherwise wouldn't die, but the improvments in the land with that system are pretty extraudinary, so supporting that is a way of me helping push out the cruel systems & replace them with something better. I only go with cows for that, cause they're the biggest, so least deaths per calorie. 1 cow will produce enough calories to fully feed a human for a year, so it's actaully a lot less deaths than occur in crop production, as long as the land is being managed properly, so that native animals etc can live in harmony with the cattle on that land. I mostly just like the idea of looking for waste, stuff like oil free soybean flour (that's really hard to find btw) is a waste product from vegetable oil production, so no damage at all to eat it, molassas is a waste product of the sugarcane industry, the pet chicken eggs you've already found is another great example & of course the feral animals & beyond that stuff, I basically grow all my own plant based foods, so that I can opt out of the cruel crop farming deaths & cause I like the freshness of growing myself, I can't stand store bought fruit & veg anymore, smells like it belongs in the compost bin to me! Anyway, lovely to chat with you, so nice to hear from someone genuinely interested in ethics, not just joining in a movement, but not really thinking about if what it's promoting is really in line with what it claims it supports. I think there's much better ethical options than just excluding animal products & thinking that solves everything & stops cruelty. Also, if you haven't eaten game meats like venison before, buffalo is supposed to be the least gamey tasting, along with wild pig, then kangaroo, then venison. Game meats do have a much stronger flavour than domesticated meats though, which can be hard to tollerate if you're not that comfortable with meat flavours & because they're so lean, they HAVE to be eaten rare, or they're horrible! (easier to eat a rock) Alternative to rare is minced. If you're not that comfortable with the taste, I'd recommend starting out with it minced & added just a little to a curry or other strong flavoured meal & then gradually increasing meat amounts or reducing spice amounts as the flavour grows on you. Game meats are ideal for dishes where meat flavours get washed out by the other strong flavours. Most popular way to eat kangaroo meat in Australia is as mince in a burger patty, with the bun & other toppings diluting it's flavour, to what a lot of people see as the perfect level. You won't find minced kangaroo meat in the US though, has to be whole cuts for import for food safety reasons, so need to mince yourself, or have the seller do it for you. Mince mixed with other foods is absolutely the way to go when starting out with any game meats though, unless you REALLY love meat flavour. Venison, mix with even more flavours than just the burger that works well for kangaroo, cause it's stronger in flavour
@James Randolph I suspect he means it's an attractive-sounding technology that seems unlikely to ever become practical or scalable. As a biologist, I tend to agree with that assessment. It's REALLY hard to keep cell cultures from getting contaminated with bacteria even on the lab scale. I shudder to think of the amount of antibiotics that would need to be used to keep a big vat of animals cells sterile.
I think labs underestimate the percentage of people who are actually onboard with lab grown meat. I would 100% eat lab grown meat. Even happy to pay up to 10%-20% more on the ticket price to help support it if it will eventually get the price down to below that of conventional meat products. I trust science and its miracles. So i hope to see this soon. Keep it up scientists! We got your back!
Hey I would be willing to try any protein sources that taste good, are good for the planet, and is priced right. This includes lab grown meat, insects, and meat replacements. I’m not picky!
Well, the legumes are quite rich in protein, and they are quite cheap as well. And, if You eat the grains the same day, the protein You had eaten in the course of the day will be complete
It can't come soon enough in my view. The biggest contributor to climate change and biodiversity loss is our land use footprint from agriculture, especially animal agriculture. Being able to return this land to nature whilst also ensuring we can feed the expected 10B people on our planet would be a huge win for our collective future.
After my wife’s heart attack, we have given up eating red meat. Chicken, fish, soy, nuts, etc. help fill the protein shortage. It seems to be working just fine.
"It's the only good option we have" What about plant based meat alternatives? They are available now, at a reasonable cost, and are getting better and better! Humans do not need to eat animal based meat to thrive! The largest organization of nutrition professionals officially said so. They aren't the only organization of that kind to do so. In fact, done right, a plant based diet is healthier.
Here is a video of a blind taste test where 5 of 8 meat eaters preferred the taste of an Impossible burger over the one made of cow. ua-cam.com/video/NYOCv-y8ckM/v-deo.html
Humans forget that it has only been 100 years or so that meat became the "major" part of the meal. Just two generations and little to no meat would be normal again.
Yes, I would eat it. Like any new industry it will start off expensive but as production increases & people come to accept the taste & quality price should drop. There are so many advantages with cell cultures but the animal cruelty is my main concern. I would be willing to pay much more to help prevent animals suffering
I'm curious about the culinary possibilities. We don't eat zebra for husbandry reasons--they're just hard to manage. But a manufactured zebra steak? Antelope? Or maybe even combinations, hmm. Also if at some point they can master it and scale it down--microbrews, but with meat. Local chefs concocting their own meats. Could be really interesting. And delicious.
Terra: "What do you think about lab grown meat, would you eat it?" Me: "If it looks like a duck, acts like a duck, quacks like a duck, and tastes like duck, I'm not gonna be able to tell the difference, though it'll probably be unable to quack once it's on my plate, so I don't know how that's gonna work"
I’ve been waiting for this to come to maturity since u read about it in a popular science magazine in the late 90’s, if/when I can afford it I will definitely eat it
I'm definitely looking more to insect sources for the immediate future, but honestly, if we get subsidies and put the time and effort into building infrastructure and perfecting it... why on earth not?
Man I just don't see how you'll sell insect protein when plant based protein exist. This is not me being naive about plant based protein btw, I just think insect protein sounds worse to basically anyone. Like convincing people to give up on eating the red and white meat they like is the hard part, not convincing them that there is a good alternative source of protein. Talking about insects just adds another yuck factor for most people that isn't there with plant based stuff. (TBC I personally am not opposed to eating insects as an alternative to eating regular meat, but I also think the plant based options are just better)
@@b_uppy Veganic agriculture is even better, since it is compatible with permaculture, and eliminates the need for manure or synthetic fertilizers. It uses crop rotation, and composting. Composting significantly reduces the methane otherwise produced in landfills.
@Some Guy 'Sustainable' is a greenwashing term that makes degenerative ag practices sound better. It's claim to 'being the gold standard' is only because it is a surce for centralized corporate conglomerate plundering of the ecosystem and people who are operating under simplistic paradigms.
Every time they talk about getting the texture right, I have a mental image of sweeping a whisk through the vat, collecting a spool of fibers like so much cotton candy. XD
I don't know about this. The problem with this is, we already have a lot of human error when processing meat from animals. With this being a thing, we could also face horrifying consequences of error. Think of Prions Disease for one possible issue. If you like dying at 25 years old, incapable of controlling your own bodily functions, sure! Go for it! If not, then we may need to think harder about it.
I think a distinction needs to be made between "lab-grown meats" and precision fermentation. One is a long way off and already captured by the big players, whereas the other could be open source and available cheaply and locally from vats made from off-the-shelf parts. At least, that's the impression I get from George Monbiot.
Do you know how many chemicals, modified ingredients, after genetics, an artificial substances go into "meat" animals? Are you not concerned at all with antibiotic resistance? Zootonic diseases? Manure cesspools and E coli?
The "it's going to take a lot to scale up" argument seems really disingenuous. You compare the volume to Olympic swimming pools, but that's a meaningless number. It's just popular because it gives people a vaguely familiar visual. How does that volume compare to the currently used vats fermenting beer? Or to the current grain silos filled with animal feed for chickens and cows? OF COURSE there's huge scaling to be done. That's just what happens with a new industry. But we scaled up all sorts of industries over the past century. We built interstates for cars, a global network for moving around oil, and ran cables across the bottoms of oceans for the internet. Just saying "it's a lot of work! Who knows if it could ever happen!" is just silly and self defeating.
Yeah, that's just the knee-jerk reaction of all new green developments. Some people just don't think of the consequences of the things we do already for some reason.
Your cost estimates are way off. According to VegNews, the average cost per kilogram of lab grown meat was $112 as of 2019. As of 2022, the cost was $9.80 per burger, according to Forbes. Is this video 8 years old or something?!
The alternative to in vitro-produced meat is the total deprivation of the future for all of us. Naturally, the meat industry immediately declared war on this new technology, but if we are here it is thanks to the friendly climate and rich biodiversity, both of which are heavily undermined by the food industry as we know it today. The available fresh water is 0.3 % of the total amount of water, and almost 30 % of the available land is used for intensive farming, with disastrous consequences (deforestation, desertification, and so on). Moreover, there is nothing natural in modern intensive agriculture and animal breeding. Genetic modifications to optimise the body parts of animals for marketable meat at the expense of the health of the animals, and thus of those who will eat them, are the norm, not to mention crops destined to animal consumption instead of human consumption. What is more, the meat we eat is full of antibiotics and other drugs, microplastics, hormones harmful to human health, and faecal and urine residues. If we want a future for ourselves and our children there is little to choose from, we have not had the luxury of choosing on the basis of logic for a long time, and it is about time to put an end once and for all to those who would like to deceive us with false messages just to preserve their own economic interests at the expense of the health and well-being of us all
Very excited to clone a burger of myself sometime in my lifetime. I just gotta know. That's not a joke, but anyway I'm very excited by this technology and I'm rooting for it's success. I am 100% for public funding to boost it further, because it's very easy for the tech to stagnate if it's all proprietary.
Not the only option we have like that old man said we can be eating insects and we should be at the very least all our pet food should be insect base that’s what they evolve to eat anyway I think something fishy is going on in the background of all of this….
lab grown meat sounds like the stuff of lucid nightmares. but we're all ok about breeding animals in captivity, pumping them full of hormones so we can feed them cheap shit for as short a time as possible, before cutting them up for packaging/distribution. the change will happen, who's going to turn away the idea of growing cows in a desert, and hopefully come with an appreciation for the wild animals we still have. sure its not a problem everyday for everyone today, but food/water security if definitely an issue that needs to be addressed within a lifetime
I'd eat lab grown meat. The thing that pisses me off and made me stop eating meat in the first place was the amount that gets thrown in the bin. I guarantee (having worked in hospitality and retail) that half the animals slaughtered don't need to be because they are never eaten anyway.
One thing i never hear get brought up is meat subsidies. No one except the richest people in the world could afford most meat if it wasn't heavily heavily subsidized. Just subsidize this and it'll be cheap. We don't need to have our taxes go to dystopian slaughterhouses
I am allergic to meat. I can eat it on rotation, but since I'm also allergic to a lot of the products they make meat substitutes with, I often do eat meat less than I would like. I have recently had a blood test that showed I was having a few problems because I lack enough protein in my diet - and remember, a lot of the plant based proteins - legumes for example - I'm also allergic to. Would these be lab grown meats still be closely related to the animals they are imitating?
As far as I know they would be essentially identical. Unless the companies take initiative to isolate and remove the allergens that cause reactions, but knowing corporations I wouldn't bet on it.
What about native trees that fruit lining the roads to slow speeders reduce heat flooding hold soil increases o2 fresh good air and food and protects people walking on sidewalks from cars.
I am looking forward to lab grown meat. It solves my ethical dilemma between loving animals and the desire to eat them because my body likes animal protein.
I'd eat algae protein if we could make it even marginally palatable. A large scale, less water intensive option would be a lot better in the long run. Lab grown meat is always going need more expensive inputs than an autotrophic organism
I'd eat it not cause it's ethical but only if it's more environmentally friendly, cheap, sustainable and not wasteful. I don't like animal cruelty myself but people are throwing "ethical" around without consideration. Killing animals for food has been done by our ancestors even before we are close to our human form. People would say that killing animals, not matter how "humanely" it's done is cruel. To me, killing is just the first part of it. What we do to the meat is way more important than how we kill them. Even if you use the most humane technology of slaughtering the animals or no matter how free range their are and organic if we don't use all the parts, if we just let them rot in our freezers or if we just let grocery stores, factories, farms throw them away, that's the bigger problem. Being wasteful is the cruelest thing we can do to farm animals.
People are very wary of things made in a lab, so I don't expect a product like this to be sold unless it's way safer than normal meat. So I would probably eat it. I may not feel the urge to eat meat by that time though
This technologies will save the world. But i have to point out, that it is not better for the animals. The farm-animals, that don't get eaten barely exist. Veggie or not is not a decision of life or dearth, but between life and death on one side and not existing at all on the other side. It is a very different ethical question.
I'm an uncultured swine as I don't like the natural texture of meat (in steak especially) so a nugget is more my style anyway. Since 2020 I stopped eating all meat because I don't use fastfood and I don't like handling raw meat at all. I also can't get frozen food and don't want to go to restaurants either. I am willing to eat meat from time to time, but I avoid it when I can. The pandemic put rockets on my diet change and I'm back to what doctors call a "healthy" BMI. I also want to try insect-based food but have not got around to it. I guess vegans would not tolerate that (but some of them seem to be ok with yeast etc. and bacteria-based foods). Change is in the air and I, for one, am not afraid of certain kinds of change and stopping all meat eating is one that works for me until ethical lab-grown meat is available.
Very interesting information. Still I won’t eat lab grown meat. I have been vegan for 5 years and I love it! We have so many options of plant based proteins at the supermarket. My diet includes mostly legumes as a mayor source of plant protein but I can always find impossible burgers, beyond meat, plant based nuggets, sausages, Just-Egg, And many other foods. I think with time When the lab meat prices are affordable for people then it will be a great option for those who enjoy eating animal’s flesh. Also in the future I think it won’t be so much a choice since we are destroying the only planet where we can live in collectively. We need to change our ways. 🥬🥒🥑🍒🥒🥳🥳🥝♥️🙏🙏
Keep in mind it's not just the environmental impact of reducing greenhouse gases that switching to lab grown meat will accomplish. It could also DRASTICALLY help with overpopulation. Around 40% of Earth's habitable land is used for growing livestock, because livestock need large, flat areas of grassland. Structurally, the livestock industry is horizontal. What if it was vertical? If we put the bioreactors for meet production in skyscrapers, or underground, we could reduce the amount of land used for meat production to an INSANE degree. Imagine all of a sudden being able to use another 40% of Earth's land area.
This is also part of why lab grown meat would very successfully combat deforestation. There are a lot of added benefits to this technology besides reducing the impact that raw production costs have on the environment.
I would buy it even if it were slightly more expensive, I would eat it happily knowing I have made a better environmental choice and have avoided causing an animal to suffer its destruction.
Have you thought about plant-based meat, made with legumes? TVP is very cheap.
@@WeissM89 I've had it..super yuk. I'm glad other people like it though.
I would happily buy it if I could afford it, but I do not have much money.
But I see the benefits to the environment and to animal welfare, not to mention it is less likely to have food-borne disease because it is grown in a controlled environment and therefore does not need antibiotics, and with some genetic modifications we could alter the texture, taste, smell, behavior when cut or cooked, appearance, and other culinary properties as well as make the meat healthier by adding nutrients and removing harmful components.
plants and meat are very different,in chemistry.
not all humans feel good,healthy,eating plants.
and tvp soy? is not healthy long term...
I would for sure eat lab grown meat. Im no vegetarian, but I hope this becomes the future.
@ߏߊߟߏߡ processed foods? This would be grown meat. We already have processed foods, this would be more like growing an animal from an embryo but without all of the other organs and bones and most importantly: brain! The whole point of this is to have the exact thing you want, natural meat I presume. Imagine if we farmed humans for meat. Would it be better for the humans that are being slaughtered to be instead grown in a factory without brains? I can understand wanting to keep it in the status quo, but have you ever cut a pigs throat? Ever stunned a cow or lamb? Maybe chopped off the head of a chicken? It is terrible. I eat meat regularly and love it, but the way we get it is horrifying. If it can be done another way, then me personally, I will embrace it. This isnt processed food. Processed food is when you add things like salt, sugar, or oil to preserve the taste or lifespan of the food.
Edit: idk why the text is right aligned and all fucked up. It could only be for me, but the formatting is trash on this post for some reason.
One of the huge adavantages of lab-grown meat (showcased by the number of swimming pools needed to replace 1% of meat production) is the vastly smaller physical footprint of the food. The collosal amount of land deforested to raise cattle, or to raise feed crops for livestock could be eliminated and allowed to re-wild.
That's a problem with conventional raising of beef, not of cattle ranching as a whole. Raising cattle on land that is already prairie is absolutely fine and even beneficial to that land. Yes, we shouldn't be cutting down forests to raise cattle, but we also shouldn't be erecting more buildings with massive parking lots and try to say that's more ecologically friendly than grazing cattle in a manner that mimics the old buffalo herds.
@@TheSamba37 Yes, herding can be beneficial to the land through the manure left behind and breaking up of soil from movement. I remember seeing an article about reintroduction of Buffalo in one of the Native tribal areas in one of the Dakotas. Practices in regenerative agriculture, not the single use practices we use today, are far better for sustainability than 187 Olympic swimmimg pool sized incubators that require an enormous amount of energy to run to gain 1% market share. As a practicing permaculture hobbyists, the amount of food you can produce (fruit, meat, veggies) in a small area like an acre is amazing when one works with nature, not against it.
@@kelly_kelly_kelly8575 the carbon cattle put off in the atmosphere can never be offset by the benefits of that carbon in the soil. Just a new way for beef farmers to sell beef to people that don't fact check their marketing.
This seems like something that seems like a good idea until it becomes an industry. Then problems emerge that aren’t obvious at small scale.
What do you think those problems would be?
Like what?
I'd happily eat lab-grown meat if it were produced ethically and sustainably, but I think insect protein is likely a better option, although the 'yuck' factor is higher, at least in the West.
I don't think these products are aimed at us adults because we're very difficult to change, not impossible of course. It's our children that are far easier to mold.
Yuck
@@huldu Good point. Currently, every culture around the world teaches children to eat animals and what comes out of them, with very few exceptions. In one culture, eating dogs are food. In other cultures, pigs, cows, and sheep are food. India has a high percentage of vegetarians, but most of them are taught that milk is fine. Here is a very engaging video from a psychologist which explains. It has been viewed almost a million times.
ua-cam.com/video/ao2GL3NAWQU/v-deo.html
Fortunately, humans do not need to eat animals, including insects to thrive. In fact, a fully plant based diet (done properly) reduces your chance of several of our most common chronic, deadly diseases.
@@Itsgay2read Biologists classify humans as omnivores based on observed behavior in the majority, and the fact that we can digest both plants and animals. Our ancestors had to eat whatever they could get a hold of to survive long enough to reproduce. That included bugs, the equivalent of road kill, and sometimes other humans. Just because we can digest something, doesn't mean we should. Fortunately, most of us today can be more selective. We can eat a diet which is better for our health, longevity, our environment, and our fellow Earthlings- a fully plant based diet centered around whole foods.
Animals in the wild have to eat each other. We do not. Those populations who need to eat animals do not justify doing so for those of us who don't need to.
Once it is affordable and proven not to have a large carbon footprint to produce it than I would be happy to have cultivated meat. Hopefully one day soon
Why not just go vegan. It may be better for your health, far better for the environment, and is far better for the animals
@@biochemicalvegan8972 nah
@@biochemicalvegan8972 I would prefer meat that is synthesized in a similar manner, that tastes great, and will provide no guilt. Not to mention, not all nutrients listed in a vegan diet are what a person needs.
@@donkeykongisbetterthanmari7495 And what nutrients are missing in a vegan diet that arent in fortified foods or supplements. The American dietetics association actually says that vegan diets are adequate and may provide health benefits
@@biochemicalvegan8972 Following an all-vegan balanced diet isn't exactly cheap where I'm from. You should also factor in allergies, so if you'd go vegan you'd be dependent on only a tiny variety of vegan supplements of specific foods.
Yes I would eat it. It of course depends on what it tastes like and how expensive it is. It has the potential to be massively cheaper than traditional ranching. Theoretically, you should be able to get it down to prices similar to plants, because you don't have to grow and sustain a whole cow for a cow lifespan - you just grow the meat.
I feel like this will be of HUGE importance to our future and I'm really pretty excited about it - one of my favorite science fiction series has "vat beef" and other such references all over. For that setting, from that author, the idea of lab grown meat is a thing the characters take for granted. Some of them are even repulsed by "real meat."
Realistically I very much doubt that humans will ever COMPLETELY stop raising animals for meat. But if we can reach a place where we don't have to subsidize the industry - where we can kind of have our cows and eat them too, haha - wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?
Well, there *are* actually a lot of people repulsed by the thought of eating real meat in real life.
Vegetarians and vegans, they're called.
I'm not one, but I've certainly known a few.
And sometimes I can sort of see their point.
Overall, though, I think I prefer real meat to artificial, most of the time.
cow or cat meat..
I'm all for it if it can be done ethically considering the donor cows and the environmental impact. If we could create healthy lab grown meat without causing harm, I would definitely eat it.
I'm also very interested in the meat alternative Fature's Fynd, which is a fungus that has all the amino acida and is easy to produce. That's being sold in stores already. I suspect I could quite happily live on that, too.
Even if a small amount of the material used for this process is produced in unethical ways, it seems clear that its far more ethical than the current factory farming process. A huge step forward.
@@billyte1265 Yeah, I agree. I guess I just try to be accurate as far as what I would actually want. But I 100% agree with you that this would be a vast improvement.
"ethical", "unethical",
things are not black or white
@@razonyespiritu I'm sorry, I didn't realize you aren't an english speaker.
@@razonyespiritu Yeah, I know. I tend to add a lot of qualifiers in comments like this. There tend to be a lot of people who come to the comments sections on subjects like this just looking for some opening to argue or criticise. So, I tend to make it at least a little more difficult for them. Though, people find ways if they're determined enough to.
But I happen to agree with you in this case. It's tough to draw the line sometimes when it comes to stuff like this. So, how long do you think it will be before someone comes to criticize that comment? 🤣
imagine how much faster this would go if those companies were cooperating instead of competing......
I think cooperation to a degree (limited published techniques etc) could be helpful, but competition is what drives innovation.
Lets just make sure no one can patent the best process to make this happen at scale.
@@ryderdonahue lol you think people in a cooperating group won't form rivalries and enemies who compete without forcing it?????
@@ryderdonahue that's assuming no foul play is involved.
I agree. Capitalism is the biggest hindrance to innovation.
@@FluffyEmmy1116 Capitalism is the only reason you have a choice in anything bud, lol. Thank Capitalism for not eating caterpillars and grass for lunch.
Yes, I would eat lab grown meat. Meat substitutes are already making their way into our meal planning. As the science and technology improves I am sure that many individuals will choose to take advantage of these options. This is especially true IF the alternatives can be made less expensive than actual animal products.
Rip that’s where u goin this is dumb go vegan
I'd happily switch to lab-grown, or any alternative "meat", if it was similar to real animal-based meat in terms of availability, price, and taste.
Lol anything genetically modified is detrimental to your dna
@@kreeperfrm559 Sure, but being alive is bad for your DNA as well.
@@FluffyEmmy1116 early death and infertility for people that consume this is good i guess, population control end game of the "green movement "
Thanks for this excellent video, especially for the little interviews and epic animations. I do research in lab-grown meat and am so happy to see the rise in popularity of my PhD thesis topic.
Its all about the price. If they can manage to make it to cost as much or less than real meat - people will buy it. Coz the average person cares about the animals and the environment, but far far far more they care about their own convenience and personal expenses.
This just popped up in my YT feed, I didn't look for it. As a lifelong vegetarian, becoming vegan about 5/6 years ago, I'm perfectly happy with my current diet and range of cuisine, If lab-grown meat became available at a reasonable price I would try it but actually I'm not very excited by the prospect.
Woah this is the first I’ve heard of Fetal Bovine Serum! That’s crazy…and I’m way less excited about lab grown meat now.
Honestly, I researched the meat industry a fair amount recently and came to the conclusion that I needed to eat less. So I started doing “meatless mondays” and that’s steadily snowballed into me being meat free more and more often. For instance, this week, I’ll end up eating vegetarian dinners 4/5 days of the week!
And a lot of researchers I found feel that a 50% reduction of our meat consumption will get us where we need to be from a climate change point of view.
So my view has become the famous saying “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Look up permaculture and restoration ag practices. Skip Wikipedia as a source as that has corporate conglomerate people trying to mischaracterize them to promote synthetic input type ag.
@@b_uppy Look up veganic agriculture. That is the gold standard for producing crops sustainably, and with minimal environmental impact, including fresh water usage.
Kudos for significantly reducing your purchases of meat for our environment. You might not be aware of the benefits of making the switch to a fully plant based diet.
1-Your own health (vegans are less likely to get several deadly chronic diseases)
2-Helping to end animal agriculture would reduce the chance of another pandemic & other zoonotic diseases
3-Helping to end animal ag would reduce the chance of the development of an antibiotic resistant pathogen.
4-Animal ag wastes a huge amount of fresh water. Each vegan saves 219,000 gallons of water every year!
5-Animal ag is a major cause of water pollution
6-Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation
7-Animal ag increases PTSD and spousal abuse in the people who work in slaughterhouses. Workers in meat packing facilities often endure terrible, dangerous working conditions.
8-Animal ag is a major cause of the loss of habitat and biodiversity
9-Animal welfare, obviously
10- It is the single most effective way for each of us to fight climate change and environmental degradation.
11- Longer lifespan.
12- Healthier weight (vegans were the only dietary group in the Adventist Studies that had an average BMI in the recommended range.)
13- A healthy plant based diet significantly reduces the chances of ED later in life, and even 1 meal can improve bedroom performance
14- A plant based diet could save money! You could reduce your food budget by one third!
15- A vegan world would save 8 million human lives a year, and $1.5 trillion in health care costs (Oxford Study)
Links for some of these are at my channel under "About."
If you doubt any of them, I would be glad to cite evidence from credible sources to back them up. UA-cam only allows a certain number of links at my channel.
@Some Guy
'Sustainable' is a greenwashing term that makes degenerative ag practices sound better. It's claim to 'being the gold standard' is only because it is a source for centralized corporate conglomerate plundering of the ecosystem and people who are operating under simplistic paradigms.
Personally, I would try clean, cultured meat made using lab technology, but only if it were made without bovine growth serum. I would not eat it on a regular basis, because a whole food plant based diet is better for health, vitality, and longevity compared to a diet which includes animals or what comes out of them.
What was not mentioned enough in this video was the 3D printing of structured meat, like steaks. The structure is printed (muscle and fat) and then placed into incubation where the cells finish developing and differentiatiing, and eventually they turn into fibrous tissue (a cut of marbled meat, in the case of a steak) that can be cooked. 3D-printed cultivated (cultured) meat.
Yes. I would eat it. Though I doubt it will be a regular part of my diet because it won't be cheap in my lifetime.
I'd absolutely eat lab grown meat. I hope in my lifetime that'll be something I can buy at the grocery store. I'd even be willing to pay more for it.
Though, in the meantime I've been really impressed with Impossible burgers. That leghemoglobin really makes a world of difference. I'd really like to try some Nature's Fynd and their Fy protein too. It's produced by a fungus first found in the hot springs at Yellowstone. I've enjoyed what I've tried of Quorn's fungal protein so I'm glad to see another company expanding that market.
Imo it would be best to subsidize multiple sources of alternative protein instead of putting all our eggs in one basket.
you're happy to eat a product that was only possible from exploiting unborn calves? & the way they "euthinase" them btw is with a needle into major blood vessels & draining their blood until they're dead! Horrible, horrible way for a baby to die! That's what you're supporting if you eat lab meat! You're saying creating a whole industry to harvest those calves (which is what theyv'e done) was ok by your ethics!
Is it really meat that people are addicted to or salt/sugar/fat? Vegetarian and Vegan options have exponentially expanded even without having lab grown meat to back them up. Maybe it is the idea that people are being asked to give something up, regardless of what it is.
I've loved the idea of this for ages and can't wait to be able to try it - imagine the scope too, once they've nailed the basics! Fancy a buffalo steak? Yep! Panda burger, hell yeah! Otter curry - why the hell not!
I'm not really sure about that last one. 🙄
Mo
Of course not, just big slabs of ribeyes,
Lamb steak? Calf curry?
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@@monkeyandgorilla2174 You say that everywhere.
Does that mean monkey? Or what?
Just wondering.
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I wish the Terra series was placed on high school science or even social science curriculum. Young people need to be able to think about so many things these days.
The current gov't subsidies are massive welfare programs for the meat & dairy industries because American's really want their meat & cheese, but we give barely anything to fruit & vegetable growers, the imbalance is massive. The current system just isn't sustainable in the long term without some major shift in thought and production, lab grown meat can play a part.
I'd like to see an environmental impact comparison between current industrial meat production and lab grown meat as it evolves. I suspect lab grown meat will have less of an impact, but I'm not educated enough on the subject to know.
Let's make sure those impact studies compare permaculture/restoration ag grown foods versus lab 'meats' and you'd be embarassed at the horrible costs of centrally grown meats are.
Past time to end these destructive subsidies!
How soon can we expect it to be available on most food markets ??
If it tastes just as good, and just as cheap, I think most people will eat it. Right now, polls show about half would eat it. But I remember polls about how many people would take the covid-19 vaccine and also showed low numbers. Right now, the % of people vaccinated is much higher than what those poll numbers show. The thing will be true for lab grown meat as long as it passes the standards. Even higher if you get the cost lower than factory farmed meat.
Agreed, once people have gotten over the initial xenophobia, this'll get normalized pretty quick.
Really, the thing about flavor, texture and all that is based on *our* experiences. If you never had real meat to begin with then you have no reference points. That's our future children.
Since I quit eating meat dairy and eggs, I have discovered so many new flavors and textures of new dishes and ingredients. Ethnic cuisines offer a lot of variety for a plant based diet.
we would like having this option.
what's the cost analysis?
when will it be affordable for everyone?
I would absolutely eat it but I dont think it will be a common, affordable choice for a very long time due to the costs of scaling up large scale production.
I tend to disagree with the message of the video. It says that we shouldn’t be excited about this because it’s just a nascent technology and it’s very expensive. However, if you look at trends, the price has been coming down and as soon as it reaches parity with normal meat, it’s only a matter of time until people realise it’s just plain better than normal meat. No antibiotics, no hormones (I guess?), no adulteration, no dirty slaughterhouses, fewer emitions, etc etc. Just as the internet, the smartphone, the PC, the car, were once “just nascent tech”, I would vehemently disagree with anyone back then who said you shouldn’t be excited. The economic incentives for this product are absurd, and this is likely to drive innovation. Not to mention all the land area that could be reclaimed for wildlife and rain forests when this tech becomes more economical than raising cows. Also, I don’t see why the lack of reactors should be a problem?? I’m sure reactor producers would be more than happy to 10x their production. Also, the tech is on a phase of proof of concept. Once the first viable products start to appear, investments in the area will explode (wait, aren’t they exploding already? An exponential trend rises very quickly)
I’ve been vegan for 2 1/2 years but I would try cultivated meat. I actually just started eating eggs again because I have trouble absorbing nutrients and use to be anemic. I get the eggs from my grandparents who have pet chickens. Cultivated meat is a great idea. Cultivated fish or seafood would also be really cool💯🍣
If the eggs alone aren't enough for you, look into feral pig & kangaroo meat & check the ethics of any other meats the local supplier of the above you find is selling, such as deer or other local feral pests. Deer is sometimes farmed, rabbit is almost always farmed, so you'll want to avoid that, but any animals that are being culled for population control or crop protection are dying regardless of if they're eaten or not & if not eaten, the cheaper poisoning will be used, but if you eat them, you can transform their death from a slow, painful poisoning, to a quick & humane, but more expensive shooting. Pet chickens are great, good on you for finding that option, but just suggesting the above if you need more than that :)
@@mehere8038 thanks for the info. That definitely gives me something to think about
@@suzq2744 yw, good luck :) I mean hopefully the eggs will be enough for your needs, but if not, it might be helpful for you.
Kangaroo is the one I've found with the highest welfare standards & it's available globally & is also the easiest one to search for a seller of, since pig/hog/boar that's wild/feral has too many name combos to look up & lots of "game meat" operators sell farmed meat of species considered "game". Kangaroo is NEVER farmed & it's got really strict standards on shooting for human consumption, to the point that any unethical shooters simply switch to shooting as pet food, or switch to shooting wild pigs instead, where standards are not as high. Basically kangaroo must be an adult male, taken out with a single shot to the head, or it cannot be sold as human food & all revenue is lost to the shooter, so they don't miss & those not sold as human meat are sold as pet meat (with less controls) or shot by farmers & bodies left to rot (with no controls) or die from starvation & disease, cause humans have been the only apex predators controlling kangaroo populations in Australia for 30,000 years. Animal activists have tried extensively to obtain footage of abuse in the kangaroo industry & if it existed, it would be VERY easy for them to get, but they have never managed to obtain any, which to me says a lot! They point to regulations that allow joeys to be hit on the head with a rock to dispose of etc, but if that was happening, they could VERY easily stick a gps tracker onto a roo shooter's vehicle, see where he goes, then go to that location & find the joey's bodies, along with any not taken out with a single shot & so left to rot & any other carnage, but they have simply never managed to obtain the footage they could so easily get if abuse was real. Abuse, to some extent, is real for pet food & "pest control" but it's only ones not subjected to human consumption meat programs that end up in those programs, so human meat consumption stops it, that's the main reason I like to eat it, for the welfare benefits.
Kangaroo meat is expensive outside Australia, but those selling it are going to be the most ethical game meat sellers you can find & should be able to give good information about the background of the other meat they sell. Check with feral pigs, if they were trapped & kept in cages for a while before slaughter or if they were shot straight from wild & with all others, check if farmed or wild. Small animals like rabbit tend to be too expensive to shoot wild ones, hence almost always farmed (in tiny seperate cages, since they fight if kept in groups & females are kept near continously pregnant too, so imo, they should be avoided for ethical reasons)
There are meat options that are good ethically :)
Insects have some good ethics about them too, there can be less total insect deaths from eating insects than from eating foods like soy, due to whole plants being fed to insects v only beans when eaten directly by humans & the amount of spraying of insects on growing crops, especially for human consumption. Less evidence for insects feeling pain than for plants too.
Like with smaller livestock, such as chickens though, insects are treated with a lot of disregard during production & harvest, so research needed as to if you personally feel ok with their ethics or not. I definately think the ethics of crickets etc is better than the ethics of farming chickens etc, but I'd rather larger wild animals that were going to die anyway & where the death becomes more humane if the meat has value/is eaten by humans. Everyone has different conserns & focuses in ethics though, so obviously you have to do what's right for you, not nessesarily what I believe in. All the best to you with your health & ethical decision making & make sure you give those pet chickens plenty of cuddles :))
@@mehere8038 I live in the US so I don’t know how easy it would be to kangaroo but I’ve been considering having some bivalves like mussels because they don’t have a nervous system or a brain so they can’t feel any pain. It’s not so much an ethics issue for me anymore, (as I noticed there were some pretty big problems and inconsistencies in the vegan movement, which is why I recently left Veganism) so for me now it’s just generally trying to reduce suffering much as possible but yes around here deer are a pretty big inconvenience and hunting is allowed certain times of the year. Venison cannot be sold in stores here so I would only be able to get it directly from a hunter or occasionally at local food pantries💯💚
@@suzq2744 Try doing a search for "buy kangaroo meat" & see what comes up in your area, you might be surprised :) & the result/s you find should be a good, reliable source for the other foods like deer/venison too. The US is a big market for kangaroo meat, there's a lot sold there! Has some pretty insane markups put onto it though
Thing about the hunting allowed only some times of the year though is that it means they're not really a pest species, cause if they were, unlimited hunting would be allowed. Same with not being allowed to sell in stores, why is that? I'm guessing so as to keep sold amounts down to protect the population & prevent overhunting? Sounds like they're managing hunting so as to keep the deer thriving there, so I kinda have mixed feelings on that one. Still better than farmed meat though of course, but not really meat from animals that are going to die regardless of whether eaten or not.
Feral pigs are the one that have no restrictions on hunting, cause they are a legitimate pest & poisons are used to control most of them. I'm guessing poisons aren't used to control deer in your area (they are in a handful of areas), so yeh, I feel like they're not a fully authentically needed cull, but that said, if predators have been eliminated from the area, it kinda brings them in line with the kangaroos, where a lack of hunting is going to result in problems in the long term, just as long as those shooting them are highly experienced & are able to take them out without suffering is I guess what's most important to me, again, up to you to decide what's important to you ethically. In kangaroos, only 11% of the number that's assessed as needing to be culled to keep the population stable are actually eaten by humans, so PLENTY of available meat that can be added to the human system without harming animal numbers (and actually helping them, cause of the number that starve or die of starvation with current low takes compared to what's needed for stability)
& yeh, I totally agree with you re inconsistencies in the vegan movement. Muscles/oysters etc are another great option imo, cause, like you say, no brains, or at least less than current research is suggesting is there in plants. Health results have shown better for humans eating a plant based diet with fish compared to a pure plant based diet too, don't think they looked at the bivalves, but I'm guessing that would likely be similar to fish. Gotta watch sustainability with them, but certainly very doable. Jellyfish is another possible option on that, but probably not in the US, I know in Japan, they've had lots of problems with too many jellyfish causing issues, reason seems to come down to overfishing, cause fish eat the jellyfish, so logically, they should be eating the jellyfish too if eating the fish, so as to keep everything in balance & again no real brains in them.
The other one I sometimes engage in is holitically farmed, organic beef, because I really like that system, really good for the environment & so I want to support it with my dollars. It does cause deaths of animals that otherwise wouldn't die, but the improvments in the land with that system are pretty extraudinary, so supporting that is a way of me helping push out the cruel systems & replace them with something better. I only go with cows for that, cause they're the biggest, so least deaths per calorie. 1 cow will produce enough calories to fully feed a human for a year, so it's actaully a lot less deaths than occur in crop production, as long as the land is being managed properly, so that native animals etc can live in harmony with the cattle on that land.
I mostly just like the idea of looking for waste, stuff like oil free soybean flour (that's really hard to find btw) is a waste product from vegetable oil production, so no damage at all to eat it, molassas is a waste product of the sugarcane industry, the pet chicken eggs you've already found is another great example & of course the feral animals & beyond that stuff, I basically grow all my own plant based foods, so that I can opt out of the cruel crop farming deaths & cause I like the freshness of growing myself, I can't stand store bought fruit & veg anymore, smells like it belongs in the compost bin to me!
Anyway, lovely to chat with you, so nice to hear from someone genuinely interested in ethics, not just joining in a movement, but not really thinking about if what it's promoting is really in line with what it claims it supports. I think there's much better ethical options than just excluding animal products & thinking that solves everything & stops cruelty.
Also, if you haven't eaten game meats like venison before, buffalo is supposed to be the least gamey tasting, along with wild pig, then kangaroo, then venison. Game meats do have a much stronger flavour than domesticated meats though, which can be hard to tollerate if you're not that comfortable with meat flavours & because they're so lean, they HAVE to be eaten rare, or they're horrible! (easier to eat a rock)
Alternative to rare is minced. If you're not that comfortable with the taste, I'd recommend starting out with it minced & added just a little to a curry or other strong flavoured meal & then gradually increasing meat amounts or reducing spice amounts as the flavour grows on you. Game meats are ideal for dishes where meat flavours get washed out by the other strong flavours. Most popular way to eat kangaroo meat in Australia is as mince in a burger patty, with the bun & other toppings diluting it's flavour, to what a lot of people see as the perfect level. You won't find minced kangaroo meat in the US though, has to be whole cuts for import for food safety reasons, so need to mince yourself, or have the seller do it for you. Mince mixed with other foods is absolutely the way to go when starting out with any game meats though, unless you REALLY love meat flavour. Venison, mix with even more flavours than just the burger that works well for kangaroo, cause it's stronger in flavour
So, basically the nuclear fusion reactor of food. Got it.
That's not quite fair. It's a different type of reactor. Bio reactors have little in common with nuclear reactors. They are closer to a pitri dish.
@@jmr Right. Or like the video said, the vats you already find in breweries.
@@someguy2135 Or that pizza box under you ex college roommates bed.
@James Randolph I suspect he means it's an attractive-sounding technology that seems unlikely to ever become practical or scalable. As a biologist, I tend to agree with that assessment. It's REALLY hard to keep cell cultures from getting contaminated with bacteria even on the lab scale. I shudder to think of the amount of antibiotics that would need to be used to keep a big vat of animals cells sterile.
@@miriamg495 Reading it again I think you're correct. It will likely be feasible at some point. I think the question is more... "In our lifetimes?"
I think labs underestimate the percentage of people who are actually onboard with lab grown meat. I would 100% eat lab grown meat. Even happy to pay up to 10%-20% more on the ticket price to help support it if it will eventually get the price down to below that of conventional meat products.
I trust science and its miracles. So i hope to see this soon. Keep it up scientists! We got your back!
Hey I would be willing to try any protein sources that taste good, are good for the planet, and is priced right. This includes lab grown meat, insects, and meat replacements. I’m not picky!
Try permaculture, restoration ag grown beef. Lab meat Wis grown to make Bill Gates money, rather than to be healthy.
Well, the legumes are quite rich in protein, and they are quite cheap as well. And, if You eat the grains the same day, the protein You had eaten in the course of the day will be complete
It can't come soon enough in my view.
The biggest contributor to climate change and biodiversity loss is our land use footprint from agriculture, especially animal agriculture.
Being able to return this land to nature whilst also ensuring we can feed the expected 10B people on our planet would be a huge win for our collective future.
After my wife’s heart attack, we have given up eating red meat.
Chicken, fish, soy, nuts, etc. help fill the protein shortage.
It seems to be working just fine.
"It's the only good option we have" What about plant based meat alternatives? They are available now, at a reasonable cost, and are getting better and better! Humans do not need to eat animal based meat to thrive! The largest organization of nutrition professionals officially said so. They aren't the only organization of that kind to do so. In fact, done right, a plant based diet is healthier.
Here is a video of a blind taste test where 5 of 8 meat eaters preferred the taste of an Impossible burger over the one made of cow.
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Humans forget that it has only been 100 years or so that meat became the "major" part of the meal. Just two generations and little to no meat would be normal again.
Yes, I would eat it. Like any new industry it will start off expensive but as production increases & people come to accept the taste & quality price should drop. There are so many advantages with cell cultures but the animal cruelty is my main concern. I would be willing to pay much more to help prevent animals suffering
Why not eat it? Better this than what we do to billions of actual animals on a daily basis.
Yes, I'd give lab grown meat a try.
I'm curious about the culinary possibilities. We don't eat zebra for husbandry reasons--they're just hard to manage. But a manufactured zebra steak? Antelope? Or maybe even combinations, hmm.
Also if at some point they can master it and scale it down--microbrews, but with meat. Local chefs concocting their own meats. Could be really interesting. And delicious.
If it looks and tastes like meat, I'd definitely eat it.
Yep
Terra: "What do you think about lab grown meat, would you eat it?"
Me: "If it looks like a duck, acts like a duck, quacks like a duck, and tastes like duck, I'm not gonna be able to tell the difference, though it'll probably be unable to quack once it's on my plate, so I don't know how that's gonna work"
I'm so excited for it to get cheaper
Waiting for this for years, finally I can eat meat without feeling depressed
Can't wait for homebrew meat kits, lol.
I’ve been waiting for this to come to maturity since u read about it in a popular science magazine in the late 90’s, if/when I can afford it I will definitely eat it
i’m all for this. if it’s still meat on the cellular level, gimme.
hopefully the tech breakthroughs happen in my lifetime…
Yo, deal me in, I’m all for lab-grown meat!
When the price plummets down to parity.
I'm definitely looking more to insect sources for the immediate future, but honestly, if we get subsidies and put the time and effort into building infrastructure and perfecting it... why on earth not?
Man I just don't see how you'll sell insect protein when plant based protein exist. This is not me being naive about plant based protein btw, I just think insect protein sounds worse to basically anyone.
Like convincing people to give up on eating the red and white meat they like is the hard part, not convincing them that there is a good alternative source of protein. Talking about insects just adds another yuck factor for most people that isn't there with plant based stuff.
(TBC I personally am not opposed to eating insects as an alternative to eating regular meat, but I also think the plant based options are just better)
@@ZTanMURReneRs Also a hard sell to the ethics crowd. Insects are animals, too. You can't say "stop eating animals" and then go eat a cricket lol
The best affordable thing we have so far is legume and fungus protein. Insects should be produced more as well
The best thing we have so far is permaculture and Restoration ag...
@@b_uppy Veganic agriculture is even better, since it is compatible with permaculture, and eliminates the need for manure or synthetic fertilizers. It uses crop rotation, and composting. Composting significantly reduces the methane otherwise produced in landfills.
@Some Guy
'Sustainable' is a greenwashing term that makes degenerative ag practices sound better. It's claim to 'being the gold standard' is only because it is a surce for centralized corporate conglomerate plundering of the ecosystem and people who are operating under simplistic paradigms.
I hope oneday everyone can get a healthy, sustainable and cruelty free steak
Honestly, I’m looking forward to tasting it!
You and me both.
Every time they talk about getting the texture right, I have a mental image of sweeping a whisk through the vat, collecting a spool of fibers like so much cotton candy. XD
I don't know about this. The problem with this is, we already have a lot of human error when processing meat from animals. With this being a thing, we could also face horrifying consequences of error. Think of Prions Disease for one possible issue. If you like dying at 25 years old, incapable of controlling your own bodily functions, sure! Go for it! If not, then we may need to think harder about it.
I think a distinction needs to be made between "lab-grown meats" and precision fermentation. One is a long way off and already captured by the big players, whereas the other could be open source and available cheaply and locally from vats made from off-the-shelf parts. At least, that's the impression I get from George Monbiot.
How does the meat effect us though? how nutrient dense is it compared to real meat? are there chemical side effects?
Do you know how many chemicals, modified ingredients, after genetics, an artificial substances go into "meat" animals? Are you not concerned at all with antibiotic resistance? Zootonic diseases? Manure cesspools and E coli?
Lab-grown meat? Sign me up! I'm in!
Nope! Let the 1% eat it.
The "it's going to take a lot to scale up" argument seems really disingenuous. You compare the volume to Olympic swimming pools, but that's a meaningless number. It's just popular because it gives people a vaguely familiar visual. How does that volume compare to the currently used vats fermenting beer? Or to the current grain silos filled with animal feed for chickens and cows?
OF COURSE there's huge scaling to be done. That's just what happens with a new industry. But we scaled up all sorts of industries over the past century. We built interstates for cars, a global network for moving around oil, and ran cables across the bottoms of oceans for the internet. Just saying "it's a lot of work! Who knows if it could ever happen!" is just silly and self defeating.
Yeah, that's just the knee-jerk reaction of all new green developments. Some people just don't think of the consequences of the things we do already for some reason.
If you want to eat meat on Mars, you are going to need this. Would love to see Elon Musk help fund this. The guy is amazing and a genius.
How close are we to just not being human anymore
Yeah, that might be easier
Your cost estimates are way off. According to VegNews, the average cost per kilogram of lab grown meat was $112 as of 2019. As of 2022, the cost was $9.80 per burger, according to Forbes. Is this video 8 years old or something?!
That's what I was thinking
The alternative to in vitro-produced meat is the total deprivation of the future for all of us. Naturally, the meat industry immediately declared war on this new technology, but if we are here it is thanks to the friendly climate and rich biodiversity, both of which are heavily undermined by the food industry as we know it today. The available fresh water is 0.3 % of the total amount of water, and almost 30 % of the available land is used for intensive farming, with disastrous consequences (deforestation, desertification, and so on). Moreover, there is nothing natural in modern intensive agriculture and animal breeding. Genetic modifications to optimise the body parts of animals for marketable meat at the expense of the health of the animals, and thus of those who will eat them, are the norm, not to mention crops destined to animal consumption instead of human consumption. What is more, the meat we eat is full of antibiotics and other drugs, microplastics, hormones harmful to human health, and faecal and urine residues. If we want a future for ourselves and our children there is little to choose from, we have not had the luxury of choosing on the basis of logic for a long time, and it is about time to put an end once and for all to those who would like to deceive us with false messages just to preserve their own economic interests at the expense of the health and well-being of us all
Very excited to clone a burger of myself sometime in my lifetime. I just gotta know.
That's not a joke, but anyway I'm very excited by this technology and I'm rooting for it's success. I am 100% for public funding to boost it further, because it's very easy for the tech to stagnate if it's all proprietary.
"Oh yum, nothing like a vat of meat to make you hungry."
Would watching the slaughter of "your meat" make you hungry?
Id rather the impossible burger style of meat substitute be scaled up rather than growing actual meat in a lab.
FDA just gave the go-ahead. I love living in the future.
The FDA is not trust worthy.
The future doesn’t exist, only the moment you’re in.
Not the only option we have like that old man said we can be eating insects and we should be at the very least all our pet food should be insect base that’s what they evolve to eat anyway I think something fishy is going on in the background of all of this….
lab grown meat sounds like the stuff of lucid nightmares. but we're all ok about breeding animals in captivity, pumping them full of hormones so we can feed them cheap shit for as short a time as possible, before cutting them up for packaging/distribution. the change will happen, who's going to turn away the idea of growing cows in a desert, and hopefully come with an appreciation for the wild animals we still have. sure its not a problem everyday for everyone today, but food/water security if definitely an issue that needs to be addressed within a lifetime
I'd eat lab grown meat. The thing that pisses me off and made me stop eating meat in the first place was the amount that gets thrown in the bin. I guarantee (having worked in hospitality and retail) that half the animals slaughtered don't need to be because they are never eaten anyway.
i'll try it.
Great video!
Absolutely I would eat it.
One thing i never hear get brought up is meat subsidies. No one except the richest people in the world could afford most meat if it wasn't heavily heavily subsidized. Just subsidize this and it'll be cheap. We don't need to have our taxes go to dystopian slaughterhouses
I'm hoping to switch to cultured meat as soon as I can.
yes, as long don't have to kill animals, it's guilt free. thank you for the video.
I am allergic to meat. I can eat it on rotation, but since I'm also allergic to a lot of the products they make meat substitutes with, I often do eat meat less than I would like. I have recently had a blood test that showed I was having a few problems because I lack enough protein in my diet - and remember, a lot of the plant based proteins - legumes for example - I'm also allergic to. Would these be lab grown meats still be closely related to the animals they are imitating?
As far as I know they would be essentially identical. Unless the companies take initiative to isolate and remove the allergens that cause reactions, but knowing corporations I wouldn't bet on it.
@@namedjavelin3932 well, I guess I should just rest in the peace of knowing that I probably won't live to see it introduced anyway
We need a moonshot for lab meat
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Yeah, I'd eat it.
I wonder what the ecological costs of this technology might be?
What about native trees that fruit lining the roads to slow speeders reduce heat flooding hold soil increases o2 fresh good air and food and protects people walking on sidewalks from cars.
Maybe.
I am looking forward to lab grown meat. It solves my ethical dilemma between loving animals and the desire to eat them because my body likes animal protein.
When I hear "cultured" I can't help but think of the other kind of "cultured" xD
I only eat real meat and that will never change, keep this lab stuff in the labs I say.
Growth factors added that make cells infinitely divide.
That makes my anxious-ass think of cancer…
How do the costs and infrastructure needs of precision fermentation compare to lab grown meat?
i love animals. i'll eat lab grown meat to support animals, but im not going to pay $50/chicken nugget
I’m sure you’ll enjoy Soylent Green also.
Kind of absurd how little funding this recieves. I wonder how vegans would feel about eating the stuff.
I'd eat algae protein if we could make it even marginally palatable. A large scale, less water intensive option would be a lot better in the long run. Lab grown meat is always going need more expensive inputs than an autotrophic organism
I'd eat it not cause it's ethical but only if it's more environmentally friendly, cheap, sustainable and not wasteful. I don't like animal cruelty myself but people are throwing "ethical" around without consideration. Killing animals for food has been done by our ancestors even before we are close to our human form. People would say that killing animals, not matter how "humanely" it's done is cruel. To me, killing is just the first part of it. What we do to the meat is way more important than how we kill them. Even if you use the most humane technology of slaughtering the animals or no matter how free range their are and organic if we don't use all the parts, if we just let them rot in our freezers or if we just let grocery stores, factories, farms throw them away, that's the bigger problem. Being wasteful is the cruelest thing we can do to farm animals.
I think this is a great idea to fulfill the meat-eaters’ addiction to meat.
People are very wary of things made in a lab, so I don't expect a product like this to be sold unless it's way safer than normal meat. So I would probably eat it. I may not feel the urge to eat meat by that time though
Lab grown meat really doesn't seem like a solution. Eating much less, sustainably raised, and ethically harvested meat should be everyone's goal.
This technologies will save the world. But i have to point out, that it is not better for the animals. The farm-animals, that don't get eaten barely exist. Veggie or not is not a decision of life or dearth, but between life and death on one side and not existing at all on the other side. It is a very different ethical question.
I'm an uncultured swine as I don't like the natural texture of meat (in steak especially) so a nugget is more my style anyway. Since 2020 I stopped eating all meat because I don't use fastfood and I don't like handling raw meat at all. I also can't get frozen food and don't want to go to restaurants either.
I am willing to eat meat from time to time, but I avoid it when I can. The pandemic put rockets on my diet change and I'm back to what doctors call a "healthy" BMI.
I also want to try insect-based food but have not got around to it. I guess vegans would not tolerate that (but some of them seem to be ok with yeast etc. and bacteria-based foods). Change is in the air and I, for one, am not afraid of certain kinds of change and stopping all meat eating is one that works for me until ethical lab-grown meat is available.
Problem is quantity. Its not doable
Very interesting information. Still I won’t eat lab grown meat. I have been vegan for 5 years and I love it!
We have so many options of plant based proteins at the supermarket. My diet includes mostly legumes as a mayor source of plant protein but I can always find impossible burgers, beyond meat, plant based nuggets, sausages, Just-Egg, And many other foods. I think with time When the lab meat prices are affordable for people then it will be a great option for those who enjoy eating animal’s flesh. Also in the future I think it won’t be so much a choice since we are destroying the only planet where we can live in collectively. We need to change our ways. 🥬🥒🥑🍒🥒🥳🥳🥝♥️🙏🙏