<div class="gmail_quote">On 29 February 2012 09:40, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There are already quite acceptable meat substitutes from plant sources<br>
for people who need them. Animal cell culture will never work (=be cost-effective)<br>
for food production. It's expensive enough for medical and biotech purposes<br>
already.<br></blockquote><div><br>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.<br><br>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. <br>
<br>Think of all the calories that got lost in non-edible parts or in metabolic and behavioural processes that serve no real purpose...<br><br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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? :-)<br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>