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.

 

[MichaelHauer]

Yes. It’s worth investigating the work of the Good Food Institute - and to see how scalability (the ability to bring cellular meat to a mass market) is (rapidly?) improving.

The founder of the GFI - Bruce Friedrich - has just written a book on cellular meat… titled ‘Meat’. (I’ve not been able to read it yet.)

I’d also recommend ‘Regenesis’ by George Monbiot (a writer who communicates very well, in my opinion) - which focuses on precision fermentation.

 

[allindogecoin]

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.

Thanks, I will look into this. Something I have done is started to invest in Agronomics. Hopefully their stock price will not be a repeat of Beyond Meat.

 

[FredVegrox]

I am into the healthy way. It is important to me, for when I started being vegan in 2013, after half a dozen years more avoiding buying meat, with no real knowledge of the issues to animals then, I still didn't know if I could be healthy with this change, and it concerned me, I could see though because of the issues to animals, resources, and the environment, remaining vegetarian would be hypocritical. This way I found a little more than a couple of years later is whole foods all from plants. I know it is called plant-based, but I really only eat real food from real plants. So these things are not considered, with delicious foods I know to make and with this have the benefit of avoiding many of the common serious or deadly issues to people these days. Not all of them, I know, but many are actually really diet related and this way avoids them all. So faux meat does not interest me much, and nothing from animals would be desirable to me, and even lab meat is from animals, not just one, they will use more still, even if not in great numbers for this like there are anyway for what comes from animal agriculture. If I interest others in this healthy way lab grown meat won't be for them. The healthy things of this way don't include that or any things from animals.