What's The Future of Lab Meat? #shorts

Why are there secrets to making lab-grown meat? And what's the future of the industry anyway?

[JugglinJellyTake]

We have had 'coconut milk' and 'peanut butter' for decades yet the dairy industry jumped on plant based 'milk' in the courts arguing it is not really milk. It it fascinating that Monsanto and Dupont can refer to lab grown meat as 'meat' and while companies that produce oat, soya and almond milk get hammered in the courts.

[madcow]

I've been trying to find non-animal solution for very picky palate. So far all the fake meat things I've tried are just horrible. Maybe real meat from fake animals (petri dish) will be a solution for me. *fingers crossed*

[christianeaster]

GMO are still around and in stores everywhere.

[JugglinJellyTake]

You still need a source of protein, carbohydrates and fats. They can either come from plants (photosynthesis) or fossil fuels. The industry is saying little about where the feedstock is to come from and are effectively arguing something from nothing. Much more information is needed on this technology and expecially on the energy and conversion ratio between feedstock and product and the efficiency of the operations ie how much waste is produced.

[lyrablack]

Or we could just stop eating meat… crazy idea…

[ardiris]

They need to address the sodium problem.

[idkidk]

They need to put special color label for that crap.

[Silverizael]

The main way to prevent big companies from monopolizing the field is to not have overly onerous regulations for approval. Since the cost of that would prevent new startups from entering the industry.

That's precisely how the big companies like Monsanto and Dupont monopolized biotech crops, because approval of a new cultivar takes years to get through thanks to the red tape they supported being put in the regulations. Startups just don't have the money or time to get through that, in most cases.

[acutechicken]

Or the enterprise could simply be publicly researched, and the npublicly available. Profits made from it could then be channeled into paying back the costs taxpayers took at the beginning, lowering taxes in the future, or funding even more research to better the lives of ordinary citizens. The problem with private ownership is that it is has the only goal of making profit, and then channeling this profit towards the hands of the view at the expense of the many. The issue is this solution is "outside the box" because of neoliberal conditioning. Hence, few consider it as a possibility to begin with.

[KS-gftv]

Secrecy is the only way to protect a private investment. No company is going to develop the tech then give it away for free. So unless the government is going to pay for all the research, which, spoiler: it won't, the research just won't happen at all.

[RealMTBAddict]

I would love PBS to talk about the nutrition differences between grain fed vs grass finished meat. Thankfully Dr. Berg already addressed that a few times. The nutritional benefits with grass finished meat far outweigh grain fed meat. Cows aren't meant to eat grains. Ask a biologist.

[spiritualbutterfly-uqcf]

Just tell the people y’all put in human meat Soylent Green in place of real meat

[jnzkngs]

This stuff is not for people who don't want meat, it is for people who don't want other people to eat meat to force them to eat something they don't want to eat. If this belief is acceptable how about we start right now by forcing people who do not pay for their own food to not eat meat? Most of the most popular foods at least here in the United States originated as street foods in poor countries in other parts of the world. If we tell poor people "you can only eat plant matter!" They're going to come up with food that the rest of us are actually going to want to eat a whole lot faster than a bunch of nerds in a lab will.

[RealMTBAddict]

I refuse to eat it. Give me a grass finished burger and I'm good.

[RealMTBAddict]

Why does it sound like you like GMOs? Sorry but I don't want science involved in my food.