The way lab grown meat is done now is by taking meat, breaking it into all the basic components, and then reassembling them, mostly to show proof of concept. Most of these components can't be simply created by injecting genes into e-coli and scaling it up in bioreactors. So lab grown meat startups aren't trying to create pure meat, they are making an appetizing alternative using meat or meat like components that can be scaled up in bioreactors. Also, most startups in this space aren't aiming to deliver to the steak-eating consumer market, they're targeting the massive processed foods market where people don't really give a shit about whats in it as long as it doesn't taste bad.
Chicken nuggets are pretty much already made of heavily processed garbage that would otherwise just be used for compost. The real innovation here is in making that process very expensive and highly financialized.
Depends, here in Aus they're generally breast meat (eating them overseas was a bad time for me, in fact I was almost vegan in Europe the meat/fish was so bad) which would mean that lab meat would be a significant downgrade.
The way lab grown meat is done now is by taking meat, breaking it into all the basic components, and then reassembling them, mostly to show proof of concept. Most of these components can't be simply created by injecting genes into e-coli and scaling it up in bioreactors. So lab grown meat startups aren't trying to create pure meat, they are making an appetizing alternative using meat or meat like components that can be scaled up in bioreactors. Also, most startups in this space aren't aiming to deliver to the steak-eating consumer market, they're targeting the massive processed foods market where people don't really give a shit about whats in it as long as it doesn't taste bad.
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Chicken nuggets are pretty much already made of heavily processed garbage that would otherwise just be used for compost. The real innovation here is in making that process very expensive and highly financialized.
Depends, here in Aus they're generally breast meat (eating them overseas was a bad time for me, in fact I was almost vegan in Europe the meat/fish was so bad) which would mean that lab meat would be a significant downgrade.