[ExI] coming this fall, lab grown meat

[Stefano Vaj]

On 29 February 2012 09:40, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> There are already quite acceptable meat substitutes from plant sources
> for people who need them. Animal cell culture will never work (=be
> cost-effective)
> for food production. It's expensive enough for medical and biotech purposes
> already.
>

I am on a permanent paleo-diet, so the only vegetable products I (sparsely)
eat are those who do not really require cultivating and processing.

But besides animalist concerns, breeding animals would appear a terrible
waste if the goal is simply that of producing animal proteins, not of
operating a full-fledged Darwinian machine.

Think of all the calories that got lost in non-edible parts or in metabolic
and behavioural processes that serve no real purpose...

Having said that, yes, I demand that the nutritional and gastronomic
quality of vial-grown meat be *superior* to that of an ideal steak. Were
this the case, I would be happily ready to pay *more* for that.

Heck, perhaps the meat factories-to-be have their business model all wrong.
Instead of trying and offer a low-cost alternative to animal hamburgers and
chicken breasts, they should perhaps be going for luxury products.

Say, "enhanced" caviar could be a good target, since the savage one besides
being illegal appear to have reached a price of 12,000 per kg in the black
market... How much vials and nutrients do you buy with this kind of money?
:-)

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Stefano Vaj
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