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I probably wouldn't eat it myself. Not due to "Muh meat. Muh masculinityh!" -- but because i feel like, that everytime we mess too much with food, we end up making it bad for ourselves in some weird way. Processed foods and all that jazz.
So i'll continue eating my legumes, greens and the monthly beef.
Processed food isn't bad for you.. GMOs aren't bad for you.. that's the propaganda farmers use to keep you from making common sense choices.
"Processed" is anything that goes into a machine. You want your beef ground up? It's now processed. What's added in the processing is what you need to isolate and be weary of.
"Genetically Modified Organisms" includes bananas which have been selectively cultivated to provide more nutrition and reduce seed sizes. It's a result of intelligent agricultural practices to maximize food production and minimize inedible waste.
Plant based meat has been an incredible substitution for meat making it cruelty free without compromising much on taste or texture, if at all.
Lab grown is the next step, making genuine meat without slaughtering animals. I'm not aligned with PETA but I think an ideal future is one where we don't need to kill sentient life in order to have exactly what we do right now.
You can have your own opinion but at the very least be aware of the origin of your bias.
“Processed” is anything that goes into a machine. You want your beef ground up? It’s now processed. What’s added in the processing is what you need to isolate and be weary of.
I don't disagree necessarily, but food that's been ground up into a paste is essentially pre-chewed. It definitely makes it easier to gulp down more before your brain catches up to your stomach and you start feeling full. This goes for apple sauce as much as it does chicken nuggets.
I suppose but that's not inherently unhealthy or even bad for you in the traditional understanding of the phrase. I understand not wanting to drink your calories as someone who struggles with significant weight loss, but the what about the inverse? I'm sure there are some people who need to drink profound amounts of calories just to survive.
If you want unprocessed applesauce, buy apples. They're a choice no different than anything else.
We've done SO much selective breeding to make our food hardier and more plentiful, that we now have so much that we're complaining about it not being pretty enough, or that the tomato that grows three fruits a year is slightly less tasty than the plant that might produce one, or not.
Honestly, it's a great time to be alive to eat stuff we couldn't even imagine a century ago.
WHERE's NOLAN
No one will bat an eye once taco bell and McDonalds switch to lab grown meat.
Nobody will bat an eye until something something prion contamination.
Never underestimate the ability of capitalism to murder it's customers
Well rn lab grown meat is even worse in terms of CO2 than animal farming, so don't get your hopes up yet. Yeah, sure, it means less animals getting thrown into the torture and murder machine, but if you really want to make a difference it's by convincing peoples to go vegan, at least in this decade
I'm sure the CO2 output will go down over time, considering how new the technology is, relatively speaking.
When you think about how much water and feed is required to make a substantially smaller portion of meat, then this technology is highly likely to undercut the CO2 emissions of traditional meat production once it's done on a large enough scale, considering that, at least based on what I've seen, the main expenditure of resources is just a pure nutrient solution, with the rest being electricity to generally operate the machinery, and maintain temperature (and of course, we've seen many advancements in heat pump-like technology in recent years making it insanely efficient at maintaining heat for a fraction of the electricity it traditionally costs.)
I was mostly thinking about taste and texture. I never even considered that the CO2 impact might be worse. That sucks.
From what I’ve read lab grown meat is mushy, like a chicken nugget, because it’s basically a paste that’s extruded into a steak like shape. Been a few years since I’ve read up on it though so maybe they have a new way of dealing with it
They've been making many strides in terms of texture. Last I saw, they were completely growing cell cultures that produced a ground-beef like texture and look.
Yeah exactly, ground beef or extruded/separated meat texture.
Same problem that companies like impossible and beyond can’t overcome. The structure of muscle tissue (eg a steak or chicken breast) is tremendously difficult to replicate and that texture is what people love
It’s still a great thing for animal welfare