Coming Soon in 2021 Lab Grown Meat

[DrPrepper1]

Apparently Bill Gates and other billionaires are investing in lab meat companies...along with big pharma, like Merck, to grow meat from stem cells in a lab. They say the meat will be ready by 2021. They plan on putting in restaurants. Once it gets affordable, I imagine they will start selling it to fast food places. I would never eat this. For those of you that have a way to raise your own livestock, congratulations! I will probably end up being a vegetarian before I eat this.

They are using selling points of :
Better for the environment
Disease free
No antibiotics required
Radiation free

meh... I am still not sold.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/bill-gates-and-richard-branson-bet-on-lab-grown-meat-startup.html

 

[Petoski]

From farmer to pharma. I for one won't be going near the stuff.

 

[Mountain trapper]

That's nice. But I'll stick to raising my meat on the hoof. The way it's been done for thousands of years.

 

[DrPrepper1]

From farmer to pharma. I for one won't be going near the stuff.

Yes, Merck is already involved trying to make the cells grow faster.... if they make the cells grow faster in the “meat” it might make your cells grow faster ( cancer). Bovine hormones made bigger fatter cows... they also made bigger fatter people who consumed them.

 

[Maverick]

Apparently Bill Gates and other billionaires are investing in lab meat companies...along with big pharma, like Merck, to grow meat from stem cells in a lab. They say the meat will be ready by 2021. They plan on putting in restaurants. Once it gets affordable, I imagine they will start selling it to fast food places. I would never eat this. For those of you that have a way to raise your own livestock, congratulations! I will probably end up being a vegetarian before I eat this.

They are using selling points of :
Better for the environment
Disease free
No antibiotics required
Radiation free

meh... I am still not sold.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/bill-gates-and-richard-branson-bet-on-lab-grown-meat-startup.html

"Billionaires, including Bill Gates"

Reminds me of that old Biblical saying '..money is a root of all kinds of evil'

 

[DrHenley]

Actually it's "love of money"
I Timothy 6:10

 

[Maverick]

Actually it's "love of money"
I Timothy 6:10

It is but also that's also why I phrased like (..money) that way, meaning their were more before it, it was specifically pointed towards bill gates

 

[Brent S]

I’ve read a lot about world hunger. The population is allready past the point of being able to feed the world sustainabily, and is exponentially growing. If science dosent come up with new ways to produce food efficiently then millions more will die slowly. That being said, does it sound appetizing? Not a chance. As far as it being unhealthy, could it be any worse than most of the fast food out there allready?

 

[Maverick]

Science has helped humans live longer and multiply in greater numbers and I have benefited from the science, the downside is its unsustainable. Nature has away of thinning the herd regardless of science, that day is coming!

 

[user 6493]

no thanks,,,,,,,,,I would think it would taste like cardboard

 

[Mountain trapper]

I have no interest in feeding the world. There's already too many people on the planet. People in third world countries breed like rats. And thanks to modern medicine and the dogooders who want to feed them, their offspring live to breed too. The US taxpayer shouldn't be feeding the rats. Let nature takes its course.

 

[Kevin L]

I like the idea of lab grown meat.

All of science hangs together and is interconnected.

If we can grow real meat in the lab, it seems only a few short steps until we start growing organs and tissue for transplants. Kidney and heart waiting lists could be a thing of the past.

 

[Maverick]

Man shouldn't mess with the natural order and selection of nature, everything in life has a MTF, when we extend or take death out of the equation we upset the balance and in return we aren't going to like the wrath of nature!

Playing GOD should be left to GOD and not the fallible man!

 

[DrHenley]

I’ve read a lot about world hunger. The population is allready past the point of being able to feed the world sustainabily

Brent, where are you getting that from? China feeds one fifth the world's population using less than one tenth the world's arable land and water supply.

I've read studies that determined that Texas alone could feed half the world's population if the farmers weren't paid to NOT grow food.

Give me a country with starving people and I'll give you a country that has a corrupt government that created the problem. Just look at what South Africa is doing! The government is running off the farmers that feed them.

 

[Kevin L]

Brent, where are you getting that from? China feeds one fifth the world's population using less than one tenth the world's arable land and water supply.

I've read studies that determined that Texas alone could feed half the world's population if the farmers weren't paid to NOT grow food.

Give me a country with starving people and I'll give you a country that has a corrupt government that created the problem. Just look at what South Africa is doing! The government is running off the farmers that feed them.

I see your points and agree with them somewhat, but I think that everyone here misses an important point.

I often see humanity as "crisis driven" when it comes to forseeable catastrophies.

Consider climate change. I believe in it, a lot of people don't...but even if human-driven activities are only a small part of the problem now, doesn't it make sense to be proactive before it becomes a huge problem that's ten times harder to fix? Especially when Earth is (for now) the only place that we have to live?

Having an infrastructure ready to produce lab-grown meat may seem silly, wasteful, or redundant now...but our grandchildren and great grandchildren may very well erect monuments in our memory for providing them with it.

Humans have foresight, so I don't believe in waiting for something to become catastrophic before fixing it. I like being proactive.

As for artifical meat being unnatural (ie: "playing God"), how natural is it for cattle and farm animals to be fed hormones and antibiotics? How natural is it to keep chickens crammed together so that diseases (like avian flu) have an environment to multiply and mutate into a horrible airbourne disease that may kill millions of people?

The 1918 flu epidemic started on pig farms in Kansas, for example (according to many sources, but I concede that there is some disagreement with this specific point).

Lab grown meat could put an end to all of this.

I see it as a good thing.

 

[Brent S]

I agree with science is a good thing. We have the ability to figure out ways to do things better, why wouldn’t we strive to use it? If we can help make the world a better place, why wouldn’t we?

 

[Kootenay prepper]

With a bunch of billionaires investing in lab grown meats I highly doubt any of the worlds food shortages are going to get dealt with. They haven’t made their money from giving to charity they will be wanting to see a return. They might get away with it for a while with no side effects but sooner or later rushing to develop stuff cheaper to make more of a profit will backfire.

I’ll stick with raising my own animals or buying local.

 

[DrHenley]

One of the things they usually fail to mention in all the doom and gloom about the climate is that if Global Warming happens, that means longer growing seasons, and in some parts of the world it means two crops per year instead of one.

Global cooling, on the other hand, means shorter growing seasons and in some places no growing season at all. Now that would really create a hunger crisis!

But the Global Cooling scare wasn't nearly as lucrative to the fearmongers as the Global Warming scare is.

Kevin, I'm with you on all the hormones and antibiotics thing. That's why I prefer venison over beef. Who knows? Maybe all those antibiotics they feed the animals is what is causing the superbugs.

 

[Kevin L]

One of the things they usually fail to mention in all the doom and gloom about the climate is that if Global Warming happens, that means longer growing seasons, and in some parts of the world it means two crops per year instead of one.

Global cooling, on the other hand, means shorter growing seasons and in some places no growing season at all. Now that would really create a hunger crisis!

But the Global Cooling scare wasn't nearly as lucrative to the fearmongers as the Global Warming scare is.

Kevin, I'm with you on all the hormones and antibiotics thing. That's why I prefer venison over beef. Who knows? Maybe all those antibiotics they feed the animals is what is causing the superbugs.

Thank you.

Disregarding global warming (we may have to agree to disagree on this), lab meat may help address the superbug issue.

Also, I'm sure you know how devastating measles has been in human history...especially with the native americans.

Measles came from a cattle disease called rinderpest (which is, actually, recently rendered extinct), which mutated into measles due to people and animals living in crowded conditions and close proximity.

If we ever get really focused on establishing a permanent human presence in outer space, then lab grown meat will be very important.

I also imagine that recycling (along with lab meat) will be very important for human settelment in Antarctica, or in self-contained habitats on the ocean floor.

These may seem like science-fiction pipe dreams, but these situations may have to become a reality in the future if we don't put limits on reproduction.

Working out the intricacies of laboratory meat now may save a lot of lives down the road.

I see lab meat as a long term investment in the human future.

 

[Gazrok]

That being said, does it sound appetizing?

There's the rub.

There are PLENTY of food sources to feed the hungry. Insects alone could easily provide the protein needs of millions....but who will eat it?

Personally, I think lab meat will have its place. That place WON'T be on MY plate, but who am I to begrudge another for eating it? More power to ya....

Not saying I wouldn't at least try it though. I would. I'll pretty much try anything. I think that's why we humans eat such a variety, and lasted this long, and thrived, because we clever little monkeys can eat just about anything.

 

[Brent S]

‘I ain’t skared to try it’!

 

[Maverick]

‘I ain’t skared to try it’!

Keep us posted on your genetic mutation.

Your tombstone

Here lies Brent a brave soul
[input date here]
Test subject one - Failure

 

[Gazrok]

Keep us posted on your genetic mutation.

*starts filling out application to Xavier's School.....* (eh, some will get it)

 

[Brent S]

*starts filling out application to Xavier's School.....* (eh, some will get it)

Only sci fi fans

 

[Gazrok]

 

[Brent S]

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Damn, I forgot how good Mystic looked. (If you’re into the whole blue mutant thing).....

 

[DrHenley]

Damn, I forgot how good Mystic looked. (If you’re into the whole blue mutant thing).....

Or into the minimalist clothing thing

 

[Brent S]

Or into the minimalist clothing thing

Why sir, I didn’t even notice she was naked.... or as close as she could get to being.

 

[tmttactical]

Soylent Green anybody?

 

[Gazrok]

You should see "Snowpiercer" for their insect ration bars.

Whether J Law or Rebecca Romjain, Mystique is pretty smokin'..... I've seen some very beautiful gals pull off that costume for cosplay in person really well too. (pasties).