[ExI] coming this fall, lab grown meat

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Wed Feb 29 08:40:15 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 01:34:51PM -0800, spike wrote:

> This is the first I have seen them state an actual near term time-frame.  I
> hope they make it.  {8-]

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.

Much more intersting problem: make something like quorn, but with
a meat taste and texture.

Bonus: make above from single-cell algae grown in a photobioreactor on your roof,
which uses your exhaled CO2 and flue gases for carbon input.

If you can do the latter, monkeys... in... spaaaaace.... is one step away.



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