Cultured mean (grown in a lab) is coming. No joke.

[op2]

We associate eating meat with the animal it came from because there has never been a way to separate the two. But what if there were a way to get the meat without the animal? I mean, people like steak because it smells and tastes good, not because it comes from a cow. What if you could make a steak without the hassle of using a cow to create it?

Well the technology is edging in that direction. Some people have moral qualms about growing animals for food but those folks aside, isn't growing an animal over a period of years, housing it, feeding it and giving it water, dealing with it's waste, yadda, yadda, slaughtering it and then cutting it into pieces a lot of work? Wouldn't it be better it we could skip all that and just grow the meat?

We're getting there. Don't let this creep you out because it's not creepy and especially not any creepier than the way we do it currently. Meat grows in cows already via some physical process so what if we could just replicate the process? They're figuring it out.

http://fortune.com/2016/04/25/memphis-meats-lab-grown-meat/

 

[TarHeelEer]

You first.

 

[moe]

This again, shew.

 

[op2]

You first.

This lady beat both of us to it.



I don't know why people are so skeptical about this. If they can do this in a rudimentary, expensive way now what do you think they'll be doing in 5 or 10 or 20 years? Has there ever been a time when technology just started going backwards?

It's not like they're reproducing a cows brain and consciousness. That would be truly magical. That's not gonna happen. But reproducing the meat part of the cow? The cow ingests food, chemical processes happen inside the cow, and more cow meat grows as a result. Just repeat that process but outside the cow.

Once they perfect it it'll have to be way more efficient than using an actual cow since such a small percentage of the energy that goes into producing the cow meat actually ends up as cow meat. All the energy that goes into keeping the cow alive and keeping its body warm and running its digestive system, etc, is completely wasted in the end.