Well rn lab grown meat is even worse in terms of CO2 than animal farming, so don’t get your hopes up yet. Yeah, sure, it means less animals getting thrown into the torture and murder machine, but if you really want to make a difference it’s by convincing peoples to go vegan, at least in this decade
From what I’ve read lab grown meat is mushy, like a chicken nugget, because it’s basically a paste that’s extruded into a steak like shape. Been a few years since I’ve read up on it though so maybe they have a new way of dealing with it
They’ve been making many strides in terms of texture. Last I saw, they were completely growing cell cultures that produced a ground-beef like texture and look.
Yeah exactly, ground beef or extruded/separated meat texture.
Same problem that companies like impossible and beyond can’t overcome. The structure of muscle tissue (eg a steak or chicken breast) is tremendously difficult to replicate and that texture is what people love
I’m sure the CO2 output will go down over time, considering how new the technology is, relatively speaking.
When you think about how much water and feed is required to make a substantially smaller portion of meat, then this technology is highly likely to undercut the CO2 emissions of traditional meat production once it’s done on a large enough scale, considering that, at least based on what I’ve seen, the main expenditure of resources is just a pure nutrient solution, with the rest being electricity to generally operate the machinery, and maintain temperature (and of course, we’ve seen many advancements in heat pump-like technology in recent years making it insanely efficient at maintaining heat for a fraction of the electricity it traditionally costs.)
I must say, I don’t like lab grown meat in the future being the reason why omnivores don’t give a fair shake to already-existing vegan meat replacements today. Forever being out there on the time horizon can be misused as a long term excuse for not cutting down on animal exploitation.
Well rn lab grown meat is even worse in terms of CO2 than animal farming, so don’t get your hopes up yet. Yeah, sure, it means less animals getting thrown into the torture and murder machine, but if you really want to make a difference it’s by convincing peoples to go vegan, at least in this decade
I was mostly thinking about taste and texture. I never even considered that the CO2 impact might be worse. That sucks.
From what I’ve read lab grown meat is mushy, like a chicken nugget, because it’s basically a paste that’s extruded into a steak like shape. Been a few years since I’ve read up on it though so maybe they have a new way of dealing with it
They’ve been making many strides in terms of texture. Last I saw, they were completely growing cell cultures that produced a ground-beef like texture and look.
Yeah exactly, ground beef or extruded/separated meat texture.
Same problem that companies like impossible and beyond can’t overcome. The structure of muscle tissue (eg a steak or chicken breast) is tremendously difficult to replicate and that texture is what people love
It’s still a great thing for animal welfare
Lab grown chicken is apparently fantastic, taste and texture wise
Is it because we already like chicken nuggets?
I’m sure the CO2 output will go down over time, considering how new the technology is, relatively speaking.
When you think about how much water and feed is required to make a substantially smaller portion of meat, then this technology is highly likely to undercut the CO2 emissions of traditional meat production once it’s done on a large enough scale, considering that, at least based on what I’ve seen, the main expenditure of resources is just a pure nutrient solution, with the rest being electricity to generally operate the machinery, and maintain temperature (and of course, we’ve seen many advancements in heat pump-like technology in recent years making it insanely efficient at maintaining heat for a fraction of the electricity it traditionally costs.)
I must say, I don’t like lab grown meat in the future being the reason why omnivores don’t give a fair shake to already-existing vegan meat replacements today. Forever being out there on the time horizon can be misused as a long term excuse for not cutting down on animal exploitation.
Co2 or Co2e cows are pretty damn farty?