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[zeorhymer]

One step closer to zombie apocalypse.

Memphis Meats, a Berkeley, Calif.-based startup, says it's one step closer to bringing cell-based meat to consumers' mouths.

The company plans to build a pilot production facility with funds raised from high-profile investors including Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Kimbal Musk, as well as two giant players in the animal protein and feed space, Cargill and Tyson Foods. The company says its latest funding round has brought in $161 million in new investment.

Valeti and his team walked us through the process of producing cell-based meat. It starts with the selection of specific types of animal cells that can grow to become meat. Next, the cells are fed and put in a "cultivator" — similar to a fermenting tank — where they can grow and form muscle and connective tissue. The process is analogous to the way breweries grow yeast cells to produce beer. Only here, they're growing animal cells.

Source: NPR

 

[Brian Fellows]

I’m pretty thankful that I’ll be dead before all this nasty shit they are try Ming to replace meat with becomes to commonplace.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

 

[MudoSkills]

Meat based meat is pretty innovative.

 

[sol_bad]

If it looks and tastes like meat from a dead animal I am more than happy to switch over to this. If it allows for more happy cows dancing in green paddocks I'm all for it.

 

[Gargus]

No, way.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Why?

 

[Irobot82]

If it looks and tastes like meat from a dead animal I am more than happy to switch over to this. If it allows for more happy cows dancing in green paddocks I'm all for it.

In the end, there's no point to cows and they'd be relegated to zoos or extinction.

 

[daveonezero]

If it indistinguishable yes.

I’m just skeptical it won’t be filled that ispotentially toxic.

 

[triplestation]

 

[sol_bad]

In the end, there's no point to cows and they'd be relegated to zoos or extinction.

With that way of thinking we may as well kill every animal on the planet.

 

[Later Alligator]

If it indistinguishable yes.

I’m just skeptical it won’t be filled that ispotentially toxic.

same, don't get all of the negativity around the idea

 

[MetalAlien]

It will cost more I bet. Probably won't taste as good.

 

[rykomatsu]

I already eat meat grown from animal cells...they first started as sperm and egg cells?

 

[Furlong]

With that way of thinking we may as well kill every animal on the planet.

We are.

Humans Have Killed 83% of Wild Animals & Half of Plants: Study

Despite being a small part of the planet, humans have caused the annihilation of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants, says a report.

www.globalcitizen.org

 

[kurisu_1974]

Even if this could be considered vegan or whatever, I don't eat animals now and I'm not really waiting to eat lab grown flesh myself, but if it helps dialing back worldwide animal cruelty I'm all for it.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

I am all for it.
I am eating lots of meat, but I don't really feel comfortable with it cause ethical reasons.
Why must cows and pigs taste to good...

 

[SidViscous]

This just sounds like farming meat but with extra steps.

 

[BadBurger]

I’m alright with it. As long as it tastes good, fuck it. This type of thing is going to end feeding the third world one day I imagine.

 

[kurisu_1974]

This just sounds like farming meat but with extra steps.

Less steps, less resources, less cruelty.

 

[Zenaku]

With that way of thinking we may as well kill every animal on the planet.

You think farmers would spend time and money raising cows if the human race stopped eating beef and drinking milk?

The cows would likely be culled and reduced to less than 1% of their population in a milk/beef-free world.

 

[kurisu_1974]

You think farmers would spend time and money raising cows if the human race stopped eating beef and drinking milk?

The cows would likely be culled and reduced to less than 1% of their population in a milk/beef-free world.

How is that worse than what we are doing now regarding livestock?

 

[nbcjr]

But what about the rights of those poor cells? That's cell cruelty.

 

[Makariel]

Sure, bring it on!

You think farmers would spend time and money raising cows if the human race stopped eating beef and drinking milk?

You think what you describe is not already happening? Where I grew up everything was farms and much of it related to meat and dairy production. Price farmers got paid for milk never really went up in decades, price for everything farmes need to pay for went up. As a result many local farmers stopped with raising cows. Within a decade number of cows in the area went down massively. Now some farmers have started dealing with poultry, some turned to taking care of Horses for rich city folk, only a few stubborn ones still have cows, but they are on the verge of bankrupcy. When I visit my parents these days (who still live in the area) I make pictures of cows when I see them, because they became such a rare sight there, but they used to be everywhere.

 

[Zenaku]

How is that worse than what we are doing now regarding livestock?

I have no intention of defending the meat industry or the practices it uses to provide us with meat, it disgusts me and I wish there were more humane ways to do it. I just can't ignore the possibility that "saving the animals" could actually drive them to near extinction; I don't consider a non-existance to be 'saved'

 

[H4ze]

If it looks like real meat, tastes like real meat and (very important) feels like real meat, I'm in.

If one of these points fail, I will continue to eat these tasty fuckers

 

[Cybrwzrd]

I already eat meat made out of animal cells. Cut from the dead flesh of an animal.

 

[mr_kittycat]

literally cant imagine this, its fucking disgusting.

just can't get onboard with all this vegan & vegetarian bullshit. like, is there more of a cuck thing imaginable

 

[AV]

Firmly in camp "if it tastes just like real meat then yep sure sign me up", but so far every time that vegans/veggies have told me something "tastes likes the real thing" have been so fucking catastrophically wrong. They just don't have palates.

 

[off duty ninja]

 

[Blond]

No thanks, I'm starting to understand veganism for health reasons at this point. This shit is getting ridiculous.

 

[yet_another_alt]

Everyone keeps saying look, texture and taste but no one mentions cost. Unless you can match the price then you're not actually aiming to replace meat, you're just hoping to rope enough suckers to make a profitable product.

 

[poppabk]

With that way of thinking we may as well kill every animal on the planet.

We are working on it, but it will take time to wipe them all out, some of them are tough little buggers. So just relax, we will get there eventually, but it is a long process.

 

[Cybrwzrd]

We are working on it, but it will take time to wipe them all out, some of them are tough little buggers. So just relax, we will get there eventually, but it is a long process.

The useful ones will evolve and adapt to survive with us, so they will be fine in the long run.

 

[jdforge]

Or people could slow down their meat consumption or stop eating meat altogether.

 

[Lrnex]

Impossible burgers already taste delicious as long as they aren’t cooked to the point of being dry (seriously the ones at a White Castle are amazing). If something can taste even closer to the real thing then I’m all for it.

 

[eNT1TY]

I'm down if it tastes right but i don't know how commercially viable it would be in my life time. I've read that in its current state the most complete and passable forms are upwards of $10,000 a pound taking weeks to produce a flat sliver somewhat resembling a fillet of sorts of several ounces. An Israeli company is leading the charge being the sole producer of "fillets" and several CA companies closely nipping at the heels but still only dabbling in what resembles a ground gelatinous meat mass. I would imagine dropping production cost from $10k a pound to like $2 a pound would take decades of iteration and reifnement.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

yeah im going to give this a big old pass.

soylent green feels closer and closer tbh. wouldn't surprise me for one of these companies to end up revealing theyve been using Chinese political prisoners as the meat if it ends up "costing too much"

 

[Irobot82]

With that way of thinking we may as well kill every animal on the planet.

It's not like that. The modern cows aren't wild animals. Nobody is going to keep them on a farm just to keep them in large numbers. They are a purpose bred animal and when the purpose is going no farmer is going to keep high populations of them.

 

[sol_bad]

It's not like that. The modern cows aren't wild animals. Nobody is going to keep them on a farm just to keep them in large numbers. They are a purpose bred animal and when the purpose is going no farmer is going to keep high populations of them.

That's a bit different to what you said earlier.


I agree, if this new meat takes off, there will be a mass culling of cows as the industry shrinks and companies will shut down.
I have no idea about this but are there cows out in the wild or are they all domesticated?

 

[Irobot82]

That's a bit different to what you said earlier.


I agree, if this new meat takes off, there will be a mass culling of cows as the industry shrinks and companies will shut down.
I have no idea about this but are there cows out in the wild or are they all domesticated?

Sorry I didn't explain my thoughts well. I think there are some wild cows in like Australia or something and there are relatives of the modern cows that are wild. But I don't think wile Black Angus or whatever exist.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

If it tastes the same with the same texture, and is cheaper then I'll take a look at lab-grown meat. Until then I'll stick to regular meat.