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Well, almost. On Monday evening, the startup, called New Age Meats, let a handful of journalists and potential investors taste its prototype product — a pork sausage made from many of the same ingredients in the kind of breakfast sausage you'd buy at the store, such as pork muscle and fat, spices, sausage, casing, and vegetable stock.
>But unlike other breakfast sausages, this meat was made from animal cells, without killing any actual animals.
The reason lab meat will undercut factory farm meat will be in cost, 10 years down the line at best. Most Americans are far too fat and lazy to care about the conditions of the animals that produce their food.
creating a factory to mass produce meat from cells is like a laboratory on steroids, it also takes time. the only way this is going to undercut factory farms is if 1.) the meat can be grown quicker 2.) the lab/factories are cheap. I don't know about the first but the 2nd is expensive as fuck. imagine building a supersize laboratory that could compete with the output of the current meat industry. maybe in 50 years. even then you're going to get people like me who will refuse to eat artificial meat and will still want to purchase real animals or raise our own.
the vegan diet kills more animals and humans than a grass fed meat based diet
Depend who oversee's the production of the meat.
Fuck off with your jewish trickery, i dont care where its from.
The point is i dont want the side effects of eating meat.
thats false
the animal industry creates more farms to feed said animals
Worldwide adoption of lab-grown meat is inevitable. It's only a matter of time
vegans are environmentally unstable, they kill hundreds of animals to get vegan protein shakes but still can't even build muscle from it
What do you think they feed animals? nothing but water?
You do realize there isn't even close to a 100% conversion of calories from the food that farm animals eat to those same animals when they're later butchered right?
That'd be like trying to buy 500 fidget spinners in bulk from an Amazon seller opposed to Alibaba, of course they'd cost more from Amazon since they're from Alibaba anyway, but the seller needs profit margin. Make sense?
Meat is still terrible for you whether it came from an animal that lived or was grown in a laboratory.
Besides, this is up there with Graphene and Nuclear Fusion as an amazing technology of the future that can do everything except leave the lab.
>You do realize there isn't even close to a 100% conversion of calories from the food that farm animals eat to those same animals when they're later butchered right?
Yes, but I don't care about calories from grass and parts of vegetables that can't be eaten by a human, but I do care about delicious veal liver for example.
Also it's not just about calories you dumbo, eating just one third of a liver will be enough for all your B12, iron and Vitamin A needs
It's not about what the farm animals are eating, it's that the land used for growing farm animal feed could be used to grow fruits/vegetables/grains that humans CAN eat.
>Also it's not just about calories
Considering there's simultaneously a problem with starvation, obesity, and soon overpopulation, not just on a worldwide scale, but even on a national scale, yes. It is about calorie efficiency.
>one third of a liver will be enough for all your B12, iron and Vitamin A needs
People don't care that much for animal liver, and if they do for those reasons then:
Carrots, legumes, and chlorella. More efficient than liver, without risk for CVD.
>It's not about what the farm animals are eating
It absolutely is.
>It's that the land used for growing farm animal feed could be used to grow fruits/vegetables/grains that humans CAN eat.
And with what do you fertilize your soil with then? What do you spray it with? What in the winter? Or what if your crops are just bad that year?
A pig/chicken/land symbiosis is absolutely perfect, no need for big belching trucks and lab made supstances, constant good food all year round even in the winter.
>Considering there's simultaneously a problem with starvation
"World hunger" is not a problem of not having enough calories for all the people, if you think replacing breeding animals with onions crops will suddenly make the entire continent of Africa not poor and starving you're beyond delusional and ignorant.
>People don't care that much for animal liver
Yes, because the majority of people don't care about their health and diet at all.
>and if they do for those reasons then: Carrots, legumes, and chlorella.
Good luck eating literal truckloads of those while I just eat two bites of a liver and I'm good. Also no B12 in any of that
>More efficient than liver
Don't make me laugh
>>But unlike other breakfast sausages, this meat was made from animal cells, without killing any actual animals.
If you don't kill animals then is vegan, maybe not plant based, but vegan .
>It absolutely is.
It is because you can't eat what the farm animals eat? I literally addressed that issue in the same sentence; "the land used for growing farm animal feed could be used to grow fruits/vegetables/grains that humans CAN eat."
>humans CAN eat
>CAN eat
>And with what do you fertilize your soil with then? What do you spray it with? What in the winter? Or what if your crops are just bad that year?
Fertilize soil with mulch. Pesticides 1 aren't necessary 100% of the time and 2 don't contain animal products. Greenhouses for winter. Do animals stay out in the snow during winter? Nope. What if your animals are just sick that year?
>no need for belching trucks
What, to transport plant based goods? That's how animal produce is transported as well.
>lab made supstances
substances* the hormones that are pumped into farm animals are also made in a lab.
>"World hunger" is not a problem of not having enough calories for all the people
World hunger is a problem of 1st world countries eating too many calories. You know what happens when a country can't eat all the food it produces? It's sold dirt cheap to 3rd world countries to mitigate profit loss before it spoils. If we cut out the middle man (farm animals), we'll have a greater food surplus than we already do = that bigger surplus has to go somewhere.
>no B12 in any of that
Did you even bother to google chlorella? Or did you just type without thinking?
>more efficient than liver
Considering the calories wasted feeding the farm animal it came from, yes, it is.
you can use beer equipment. the meat is brewed.
i only am vegan for animal rights, if they grew meat id eat it sure
Lab grown meat would literally be vegan if it didn't come from an animal. How is this vegans destroyed again?
If it's not broken then why fix it. The same amount of energy invested into this could be used contributing to mars colonization. Fuck vegans.
the massive amount of energy consumption related to meat production is a major reason to go vegan u fucking clown, if we can skip the steps of feeding the animal millions of calories and raising and just grow it in a lab that saves a lot of energy
>Sausages
that's not meat
I somehow doubt this is healthy.
Quit coping and accept the truth for once, fairy pants.