We were promised a panacea for the climate crisis and a way to save our food system. So why is nobody firing up the chicken vats? I went to find out
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But it wasn’t only venture capitalists who had started to grow sceptical of cultivated meat. The technology soon became a target of conservatives. The state governments of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska and Texas moved in quick succession to legislate against cultivated meat, passing laws that banned its sale, production, or both. The Florida governor Ron DeSantis made a media event out of signing that state’s law, posing for pictures in front of a blood-stained cutting board piled high with steaks. “Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere,” he said.
It’s funny how conservatives have bad positions on everything. And even if they had a good idea, it’s probably for bad reasons.
There is a widespread feeling in the US that everything is a hoax or a Ponzi scheme
Huh. I don’t know if I’ve seen that stated so directly before.
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Feel like rather then making nu-meat they should work the other way and do urban farms in big ominous buildings so I can get year round seasonal veggies.
You’re not wrong, but I think they could do both. I think even without the pushback lab grown meat has a good chance of not being economically viable, but I would personally like to see it given a chance.
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I just don’t see these endeavors becoming profitable. Whatever you feed to these animal cells comes from plants. And there’s thousands of simpler ways to process plants, of which you just need one way to produce a similarly decent result, then virtually no one’s going to pay extra for lab-grown.
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I mean, you could always bypass the plants entirely and eat yeast-based nutrient slurry
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Hmm, how would that work? Doesn’t yeast also need to fed with flour or sugar from plants?
