Meat grown from proteins in a lab is a great way to enjoy meat without killing an animal or using precious natural resources…but how does it taste? Technology has advanced to the point that the cost to produce the fake-meat isn’t too high. How do you feel about eating it?
Kim Horcher discusses with special guest, Satine Phoenix ( Co-Creator, Illustrator of New Praetorians http://www.newpraetorians.com)
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I’m a veterinarian. A vegetarian lifestyle is not uncommon in our profession, as the lifestyle is a great way to advocate for animals, something we are sworn by oath to do. There are also many who work toward the human treatment of animals caught up in the food industry, or who live their lives dedicated to an alternative to factory farming.
The majority of us (veterinarians) work in either the equine or small animal fields of medicine, and because of that, are quite far removed from the food industry. I, for one, feel a persistent conflict between my chosen profession and a non-vegetarian life choice. But, I enjoy the taste of meat. I try to buy meat responsibly, aka: not from massive farm operators or conglomerates, and instead, from small farmers living and treating animals responsibly.
Cheese, a product loved worldwide, is a product of aging milk, and letting the microbes do their thing in the meantime, which ends in a large variety of immensely enjoyable food products. A similar model for protein-making would be a slam dunk alternative to “factory farming “, thus lifting the burden of eating farm raised animals. The added environmental benefits are obviously huge.
If we embrace this budding industry, with some responsibly placed cash, our voices will be heard. We will contribute to a better world.
Where can I order?
the milk for that cheese doesn’t come from heaven. It comes from tortured cows.
I don’t no how the dairy industry operates in the US (I assume that’s where your from, apologies if not) but the process of milking cows is not of a torturous one, not here in the UK anyway.
The UK abides by 5 freedoms that every animal used in meat and dairy production must meet to ensure that the animal is always happy and free of pain and discomfort.
Again though a system where meat and dairy products are grown on an industrial and clinical level would be obviously great on the basis of the reduced energy demand on the environment and furthermore if we didn’t have to slaughter animals for the consumption of meat then I would be in favour of that.
They don’t use hormones to keep the cow producing milk? Do they just keep the cow pregnant? Is the cow free to roam around a pasture of at least 10 acres?
Maybe they could let the cows roam in West Baltimore, now that the
THUGS have opened up some new real estate for grazing. The grazing
cows could also disguise the unmistakable smell of bullshit oozing from
those fine Baltimore city ‘leaders’ who are all over television.
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You normally marinate beef for better flavor anyway, so this might just need a little A1.
If they figure out how to make it taste good, i’d eat it. My guess is that they’ll eventually figure out how to make it taste even better than home grown cow since they have so much control over what actually goes into it. In regular cows you need to rely on genetics and luck to make meat that is of ideal quality. In this meat you can guarantee that it will have all the qualities you most desire. And when this stuff starts to benefit from economies of scale it will become much much cheaper than home grown meat ever could be.
Burgers are nice, but i’m waiting for lab grown sirloin and tenderloin.
This technology is the future of food. Factories using this technology will be everywhere once the processes are perfected and the cost of production beats the cost of live meat. As long as you keep those amino acids going, you will have a constant production of various kinds of meat without the massive damage to the environment that the current system creates.
The factory farm system for meat production takes vast amounts of resources and vast amounts of waste. (Vast lakes of antibiotic laced shit to be explicit.) Not to mention the greenhouse gasses released by these farms in the form of methane, which produces 21 times as much warming as CO2. Methane accounts for 20% of the ‘enhanced greenhouse effect’.
Despite the thoughtless over-reactions of the hosts here, this technology will be on of the technologies that saves the world.
Sorry about the vast over use of the word vast.
I was in a ranting state of mind
I don’t mean to be a dick, your disgusted by the sound of how these patties are made? Regular meat is kept in cage just big enough to fit the animal in one direction, then, over the course of time, their caked with feces and urine. Finally, they’re beaten and mutilated untill death, where they finally cut and process the meat.
Honestly, if it taste’s good, I’ll eat this stuff.
Hey, if speaking the truth make you a dick, I say go for it anyway.
What people are really talking about when they bring up the treatment of livestock is the industrialization of food in general. I live in the Midwest and know no less than 20 families that raise and slaughter their own beef for themselves and their extended families and friends. So while I know that when I go to a fast food joint that the meat is probably what many refer to as the “norm” for raising animals for food, it is most defiantly not normal. Food doesn’t need to be industrialized to feed people. Cut out the massive corporate profit margin and beef would probably be cheaper even though it will be fresher and local.