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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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Edible mycelium bioengineered for enhanced nutritional value and sensory appeal using a modular synthetic biology toolkit (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've had some of the currently existing mycelium products. I was impressed. I don't know that it will satisfy meat-eaters, but it's nice for those like myself who have lost the taste for meat. It's still highly processed though, and with all of the downsides that entails.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm not quite seeing the point for these products since delicious fresh mushrooms can be grown at home from substrate that mostly doesn't use human food as components. When I retire I might pick up growing food mushrooms as a useful hobby, along with a conventional food forest/kitchen garden.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

You should start looking now for used lab equipment like Laminar flowhood and pressure sterilizers. Over time I built out a quite decent lab from things being discarded from colleges and hospitals that junk dealers bought for cheap and had no market for. i got a $10000 laminar flowhood for $800 and probably could have got it cheaper but i had to ship the 300kilo beast and that was half the cost. i just contact the junk dealers and haggle with them quite a bit. i dont know if european/german hospitals and schools are inefficient as in usa where they just periodically rip everything out and buy new stuff for no reason, auctioning off perfectly fine equipment for pennies on the dollar. I used to see sealed cheap surplus soviet era NBC and HEPA filters for sale you could build homebrew laminar flow system out of too, but haven't looked in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I’m not quite seeing the point for these products

There isn't much of one. At least not right now.

There is a novelty factor, and the microwavable convenience factor. There's also a small market to vegan/vegetarians with allergies to common plant proteins. I don't think this is enough to keep even one business operating at scale. But that doesn't stop research from going forward.

Maybe some parties have an expectation that people will flee to meat alternatives when meat becomes too expensive. But I expect the whole industry is still largely speculative.