Would you eat Lab Grown Meat

[Jessie C]

I absolutely would, especially if it meant the killing of far less animals. I agree with @jmotivator though, if it doesn't taste like real meat, no one will buy it.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Yep. I'm familiar with tissue culture in the lab. Muscle cells are muscle cells. There are plenty of factors that could affect flavor, but I'm sure that they have taken that into account. If they can make soybeans taste pretty much identical to chicken nuggets and Impossible Whoppers out of plant based materials, meat from the actual cells shouldn't be too difficult to get right.

I know more than a few people who decline meats like deer, snake, and so on because they say it tastes "gamey".
Well a boutique lab meat facility could possibly clone deer meat and take the gamey taste out of it.
Personally I enjoy the gamey taste of venison, but different strokes.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I absolutely would, especially if it meant the killing of far less animals. I agree with @jmotivator though, if it doesn't taste like real meat, no one will buy it.

I honestly think it depends on what the taste is like.
It might depart quite a ways from this or that real meat but what if someone comes up with an alternate that just tastes incredibly good...nothing like meat but tastes like WOW!!!.
Imagine the Temptations Cat Treat idea but for hooman beanz.
Tastes so good you'll lose your mind and cross your eyeballs.

 

[Helix]

Yeah, I don't know how they would grow marbled steak in a lab, though I have seen companies that are taking lab grow meat and feeding it through a 3D printer to print fat marbling into the meat.

It's kind of dystopian now that I type it out.

Also there is a lot that contributes to meat flavor that I don't think can really be replicated in a lab environment.

I'd have to read up on how they're addressing the issues. I know how to grow muscle cells in a tissue culture dish, but we weren't eating it at harvest.

 

[jmotivator]

I think this is a marvelous opportunity to educate Americans on the entire process.
By the way, part of it is purely selfish but tough noogies if the folks in the industry don't like it: We should have enough access to the process to be able to small scale attempts on our own for our own use if we want.
That's the gift the industry has to offer. Most people will just buy it from companies but pioneering types should be able to set up their own facilities, perhaps as local coops.

Lab Meat for Victory, call it.

Local butchers could set up their own outfits, maybe some of them could become boutique lab meat manufacturers, with bespoke formulas, the whole nine yards.

I'm now wondering how they would make designer meat and then I though you could, in theory make design meat by intermingling muscle cells of different animals in the same incubator... grow meat that is 50% beef and 50% pork with marbling of Chicken fat..

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Of course for me, it goes without saying that I am also interested because of the recent cycles of back to back health scares over contaminated meat carrying serious bacteria as a vector for food borne illness outbreaks.
It would be up to lab meat manufacturers to prove that their product is almost impervious to such awfulness.
That would also make me an even bigger fan of it.

If lab meats can provide better nutrition, good taste, increased safety and OMG OMG OMG better affordability, why not.

 

[What if...?]

I'm now wondering how they would make designer meat and then I though you could, in theory make design meat by intermingling muscle cells of different animals in the same incubator... grow meat that is 50% beef and 50% pork with marbling of Chicken fat..

No guilt cannibalism too!

 

[jmotivator]

I'd have to read up on how they're addressing the issues. I know how to grow muscle cells in a tissue culture dish, but we weren't eating it at harvest.

The real dystopian result of lab grown meat is someone somewhere, you just know, will start selling lab-grown human meat.

Sydney Sweeny and Gwyneth Paltrow will start selling steaks.

 

[jmotivator]

No guilt cannibalism too!

Heh, you and I were on the same wavelength, see my post above.

 

[Allan]

Sydney Sweeny and Gwyneth Paltrow will start selling steaks.

Gwyneth Paltrow: "this prime rib tastes like my vagina".

 

[Airyaman]

Listen, I'm fine with Wal-Mart brand potato chips, so lab grown meat could be an upgrade.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I'm now wondering how they would make designer meat and then I though you could, in theory make design meat by intermingling muscle cells of different animals in the same incubator... grow meat that is 50% beef and 50% pork with marbling of Chicken fat..

Right....exactly.


The possibilities are endless, and NO, I am not advocating Robert Crumb start making eyeball meat but then again, as I said, anything is possible.
But seriously, imagine this or that bunch of entrepreneurs evolve the whole thing into the next "French Wine Empire" with appelation boards, the whole works.
Any state could eventually develop a reputation as the next "Silicon Valley" mecca of incredible designer lab meats, other states could be lauded as the place that makes
the most nutritious, heathy, safe and most affordable brands.

International Lab Meat Day could be the Super Bowl of the whole industry, there might even be foodie conventions for it.
A lot of hardworking people could make some serious coin, too.

And the first people who can come up with a means of making sausages that aren't detrimental to health could become a billionaire.
I gave up all those delicious sausages, salamis, bolognas, pepperonis, etc because excess consumption of that stuff can lead to stomach cancers and worse.
Lab meats with less stomach and heart disease risk and less environmental damage might sound delicious to me if they crack the code on taste.

 

[Perotista]

They extract a small amount of muscle from the animal, break it down into cells, and then submerge them into an oxygenated nutrient bath that promotes normal cell growth and those chicken/cow/pig cells will grow into meat.

Never heard of it. Animal cells growing like plant cells. I suppose it makes sense since human cells die and grow, new cells replace the old. Lab grown meat just sounds weird, something out of a SCI-FI novel. I’d try it. Reminds me a bit of the veggie burger. With all the farm land disappearing due to urban/suburban sprawl, lab grown anything may be the way to go in the future to ensure everyone gets enough to eat.

 

[soylentgreen]

I will say it was kind of funny to me, in a video I was watching about the lab-grown meat industry, when the interviewer was talking to one of the owners of a company producing lab-grown chicken when she said with confidence "It's 99% chicken."

Eh... that's not really selling it, lady.

I'd still try it, though.

Ever tried eating chicken nuggets.

only about 40 percent of your nuggets are made of actual solid chicken meat.

 

[Bodi]

Personally I don't understand the opposition to lab grown meat on the Republican side.

People complain about farm raised Salmon.. LOL

When anyone makes an argument that they oppose something for being an inferior product my point will always be to let it lose on the free market, then.

If Lab grown meat is more expensive or noticeably inferior then it won't sell... at least to people who already eat meat.

If it gives Vegans/Vegetarians an option for animal protein without hurting animals then they might pay a premium for it... depending on how the poll goes.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

LOL now I am imagining some hippie branded lab meat that includes mushrooms, sunflowers, lilac, pumpkin, beets and seaweed mixed in with the marbled muscle material.
I can see psychedelic looking logos on the package, or The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
"Freewheelin Franklin eats it every day and he's from Texas, y'all....yee haa."

 

[Helix]

The real dystopian result of lab grown meat is someone somewhere, you just know, will start selling lab-grown human meat.

Sydney Sweeny and Gwyneth Paltrow will start selling steaks.

WHAT'S IN THE BOX???!

 

[Mr Person]

If by "yes" we mean "try", why not?

I try most things. I won't:

- Eat sexual organs, on an entirely irrational "yeah nope" consideration;

- Eat brain, on a rational if risk-averse consideration of disease risks;

- Eat land insects/arachnids on a rather irrational basis. I do love me some lobster, crab, etc. But yeah... the thought of eating a tarantula or giant cricket is... ehhh... I'd definitely have to be pretty far from sober to try.



That said, I did accidentally eat duck balls one time and nothing bad happened. It was a tasting menu. Fancy restaurant; anniversary dinner. One course was some kind of pasta, beans, and duck balls. So I separated out the "balls" and ate the dish. The waiter asked me if something was wrong with the beans. ::wince:: I guess duck balls taste like beans.

 

[Allan]

People complain about farm raised Salmon.. LOL

Higher polutant levels is why. Also as they are raised in crowded pens they usually have antibiotics.

Lab grown meat would have none of that.

 

[Bodi]

Ever tried eating chicken nuggets.

Ever seen this video?

 

[jmotivator]

Ever tried eating chicken nuggets.

Lab-grown meat is perfect for chicken nuggets, hot dogs and lunch meat.

 

[Bodi]

Higher polutant levels is why. Also as they are raised in crowded pens they usually have antibiotics.

Lab grown meat would have none of that.

Farm raised salmon is far healthier than the hot dogs and burgers and fries and and and that most people are eating too much of.

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[Allan]

A couple of examples of what it looks like.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

One of the most fun things about Karen is, as horribly picky as she is about food, SHE WILL TRY damn near anything at least once.
So there are plenty of opportunities to catch her making faces like that, which entertains me no end.
When her older sister (who married my older brother) first came to lunch, brunch or dinner with my parents, they both introduced her to a bunch of foods she had
never tried before, so the process was repeated with Karen in tow.
It's been a lot of fun with The Mitchell Sisters.

And yes, I've asked Karen's sister about lab meats too.

 

[SMTA]

My only demand is absolute 100 percent lab transparency about the entire process.
I want all Americans to have complete access to how it is made so there is no mystery and complete access to the methodology and the manufacturing processes.
In order for lab grown meat to be accepted, there can be NO corporate secrecy in this particular case...we get to see the entire process beginning to end and we get to
decide whether or not any source materials and stock are acceptable.

But if the feedstock, precursors and raw materials are safe and clean, and of course if the finished product tastes good, I would cheerfully eat it.
In fact, I don't even demand that it has to be a perfect or identical replacement.
It can be "its own flavor" if it is delicious.
Those outfits that succeed in duplicating meat perfectly can do their thing and other outfits can create and invent a whole new side trend.

I am also open to INSECT proteins but I make the exact same demands for transparency and regulation.
I have eaten scorpion, grasshopper, cicadas and locusts before as street food.
Look, many in the world have already been eating aquatic insects, so just because there is a move to trying out land-based insects, big deal.

And I've eaten various veggie meat alternatives, a few were actually pretty tasty but, they were "their own thing" and so I did not require them to be exact
copies of beef, just as long as they were tasty.

Now take my wife...
A big fat thumbs down on the whole thing, NO, NAY, NADA, NEIN, ICCK, EWW, GROSS.

View attachment 67576855 <<<---- Her EWWW GROSS facial expression

"Go ahead, knock yourself out sweetie, but I am never gonna eat that shit."

What can I say, she's Chicago born and raised.

Your wife has a much greater problem - her terrible taste in men.