The Myth of Lab Grown Meat

[TrueVegan]

If lab meat is released, likely it will simply replicate animal meat e.g. it was have the same saturated fat, heme iron, high in insulinogenic amino acids, overactivate mTOR etc, so it won't be healthy. Maybe over time they will modify it to make it healthier e.g. reduce saturated fat, replace heme iron with non-heme iron etc. But that might not happen in a while, and while lab meat is unhealthy, it will need economic support, so as a vegan I am a bit torn as I do like plant proteins such a as tofu, tempeh, seitan, yuba, lentils, beans etc, but I will probably sacrifice my health just to economically support lab meat as I do think it is important for the animals.

One option you have if you want to support cellular meat is to donate money to charities like the GFI (good food institute), that work on promoting it.

1) You do not need to eat unhealthy animal products to do this.

2) You do not need to wait for cellular meat to be sold.

3) Profit margins mean that 100$ of donations is an order of magnitude more impactful than buying 100$ of cellular meat. Especially at the beggining, cellular meat will barely make any profit as they are trying to gain customers. Let's say they do as much profit as a typical meat sale in a grocery store (around 10%), that means you buying their stuff gives them roughly 10$, as opposed to nearly 100$ if you make a donation.