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"Lab-grown" is such a vague term. There's no indication that today's tech is the best that could exist. The purpose of lab-grown meat is to remove unnecessary
by jimworm 5y ago
"Lab-grown" is such a vague term. There's no indication that today's tech is the best that could exist.
The purpose of lab-grown meat is to remove unnecessary parts of the animal from meat production. While many animal parts could be substituted, right now lab-grown meats have the opposite problem, that too many not-animal parts have been introduced.
What if "good" parts of the animal come back? Could disembodied guts and livers turn non-sterile grass into sterile, nutritious plasma? Could muscles grow in slabs and have slices removed regularly, protected by a working immune system?
Lab-grown meat is at the same stage as the early ornithopters.
- hyperbovine 5y ago> Lab-grown meat is at the same stage as the early ornithopters. Talk about damning with faint praise—-ornithopters never went anywhere. It took a completely different idea to achieve that goal.
- jimworm 5y agoIt was not my intention - lab-grown meat is already on the market, a lot further along than those ornithopters were! What I meant to express is that for all we know, the lab-grown meat solutions being tried today could be approaching the problem in a much too difficult manner, like the early ornithopters did in the flying-machine problem. The whole field is still in its infancy and it's very possible that many of the issues could be sidestepped with new discoveries.