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Fungi make up one of three primary kingdoms of multicellular life. Mushrooms and other fungus have a variety of flavors already, and some of them are quite meat
by howlin 3y ago
Fungi make up one of three primary kingdoms of multicellular life. Mushrooms and other fungus have a variety of flavors already, and some of them are quite meat-like. Given fungus cells are more similar to animal than they are plant, it is possible that they can be selectively bred or engineered to taste more meat-like.
I wouldn't be too dismissive of the potential here.
- asah 3y agothere's a startup for that: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hedgehog-2 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hedgehog-2
- Loughla 3y agoI'm not being dismissive, but was instead responding to a completely useless argument based on the ideal. Ideally, people will choose to eat mushroom instead of meat. An ideal situation only exists in a textbook, and dealing with reality is what we should do, was sort of my point.
- beefpies 3y ago> I'm not being dismissive, but was instead responding to a completely useless argument.... Listen to yourself.
- Loughla 3y agoSorry, let me explain more. I'm not being dismissive of the use of mushrooms as a meat argument. But I was being dismissive of the moral superiority based, "you should do this because it's right" argument being made framed by mushrooms. I hope that's more clear.
- s0rce 3y agoAnything is probably possible eventually, you could engineer a fungus to grow and taste like meat. Is it economical and possible with current technology, maybe not.