How Chicken Is Being Grown in Labs

[@erinpilla]

I'd like to know how they got the cells. If this process was done with least harm possible towards the animal, I might consider going back to eating meat exclusively obtained this way.

[@Lucas-zg1vz]

Usually, it's a biopsy taken from a living animal from whichever tissue you'd like to have.

[@erinpilla]

@@Lucas-zg1vz I see. I am sure this sample must have been taken ethically and painlessly?

[@Lucas-zg1vz]

@erinpilla not 100% sure about that to be honest...

[@dvdv8197]

I was haunted by something that looked like a ghostly chicken once... It was a poultrygheist. 😭😭

[@sherylhyatt3065]

🤣

[@TheLo354]

😂😂😂😂

[@lauraholzler1417]

Thank you. I didn't know that I needed that joke for my hubby. 🤣😆

[@mr.mrs.d.7015]

😂😂😂😂

[@willsmith39]

🤣🤣

[@plaidpanda]

I wonder if vegetarians will eat this. If not, why? It elimates the cruelty of animal farming, and certainly lessens the negative environmental impact. Edit: thanks for the thoughtful answers, guys! I'm genuinely interested in your perspectives 😊

[@powerfulberry237]

As a vegan I will. I actually know why I'm a vegan instead of treating it as a religion

[@bilwisss]

i would like to know more about the harvesting of the "cells" are they .... zygotes? stem cells?

[@iconsumechildren9531]

​ @baashdi hobstocking Its probably just thousands of microplastics and oils made to taste vaguely like chicken that also contain enough flouride to turn everyone into droids

[@MischievousMischief]

In my opinion, theoretically they could, even vegans :)

[@sean3000]

I try to eat a vegetarian diet most of the time but I would 100% eat cultivated meat.

[@magerted64]

No thanks

[@aliciarobinson4107]

IDK how I feel about this. I DO know that I should've went into farming and agricultural past 4H. 😖

[@nntflow7058]

How would human get their meat when they colonizing mars or the moon then? You don't expect them to send frozen chicken meat twice a year into the space right?

[@mr.mrs.d.7015]

This is wonderfully humane and I cant wait to be able to try it

[@dvdv8197]

We did it... Frankenchicken!

[@Bmanritchie]

I’d more wonder about DIFF CUTS of meat being lab grown. Do the cells grow to differ in texture from a chicken breast to a chicken thigh? Some cuts cook or suite for diff dishes.

[@donnacollins1356]

These aren't chicken that are nature fed this is probably alot or chemical they don't mention the process

[@powerfulberry237]

Of course we would get clown responses like this

[@bilwisss]

@@powerfulberry237 you are a "we" ? complaining about complaining?

[@wyomii]

That already happens, upwards of 95%> of chickens are factory farmed in overcrowded areas. If anything, this would be cleaner.

[@benc.enlots]

You are correct, Donna. "Let's pretend it is chicken like we pretend that the fauci ouchy is an actual vaccine."

[@iconsumechildren9531]

@@powerfulberry237 federal agent

[@Anuchan]

I assume this cultivated chicken only has the flesh, no bone. Seems like boneless breast would be the best way.

[@kennyholmes5196]

Yup. Though if you want bone-in cuts, you can simply grow the meat around a "pseudo-bone" of a hard, heat-resistant, food-safe material.

[@feels6233]

Better for animals and for the climate yay!

[@hbgriss]

Start at 5star restaurants then no one other than rich will ever be able to afford

[@Lucas-zg1vz]

The industry is working hard at making it match normal meat prices

[@courtjester2555]

I’m pretty excited to see how the Walking Dead stats up in real-time

[@timmylittle2406]

So the production plant, the chemicals, and all the power are actually “better”?

[@powerfulberry237]

Pro tip: remove quotations before pretending to understand better something which you obviously have 0 ideas about. It would make you look less like a clown

[@timmylittle2406]

@@powerfulberry237 “pro tip”: your kale dealer is also your mom.

[@benc.enlots]

@@powerfulberry237 =🤡 Or it could convey a tone of the question for people with any clarity of thought.

[@kennyholmes5196]

Yes, actually. Production plants can ensure a lack of bacterial outbreaks when properly sanitized. Ditto for the chemicals; and the chemicals used in this process are all ones that the animal would either consume or produce on its' own. As for power, all you need is to hook up the facility to a clean energy source like nuclear or renewable energy, and then the only carbon footprint it'll have is the footprint produced by the actual product as it grows.

[@timmylittle2406]

@@kennyholmes5196 “clean” energy? Nuclear is the cleanest we have, but the push is too shut all those down.

[@badsaturnz23]

How will this affect the economy though? If this takes off, wouldn't farmers lose their jobs?

[@Larry11181]

Robot Chicken. It’s ALIVE!!!

[@dvdv8197]

I grilled a chicken for two hours. It still wouldn't tell me why it crossed the road... 😔😭

[@PinkyakaAyannaj]

😅🤣😅

[@a-d-m23]

😂😂😂

[@sherylhyatt3065]

Classic 🤣

[@andrewmacdaniels212]

What's the real reason for stem cell research? Is it to make humans in a lab too?

[@plaidpanda]

They're not growing a living animal... duh. Not only that, but yes, human tissue has been grown in labs for decades, primarily for skin tissue grafts.

[@vrj40]

This is a case where science has gone too far! Yet, they can do all of this unnecessary nonsense, but they cannot cure illnesses like cancer that has killed millions of humans, lol.

[@CharleneDrakes]

It's not organic if it's made/produced in a Lab

[@marilynaicardi1860]

What parts of the chicken are grown? For instance, I prefer the dark meat.

[@tntfamilyinc1984]

I dont trust the FDA.

[@joshuacarson6576]

Let's see the process all the way through since it so clean. Also this is just another way for elites to control your food.

[@arnaudmarch788]

How often have I asked myself while eating meat: "I just wish this was made in a lab"...

[@knobrotknobrot]

Lol

[@DeKKH]

Yay!!!! Now I can have meat without killing ❤

[@Theholyherbs]

These people are beyond sick

[@sissaroyce8772]

It has no bone, that's how you know it's artificial . It's probably gummy

[@patriciacuozzo359]

My thing is how healthy can this meat be? What is go to me later? That's the question I have?

[@GottaGetBeefy]

It's not a chicken, it's grown from a chicken

[@benc.enlots]

"Trust the science"... it hasn't been wrong the last couple years, has it?🤔🤣🤣🤣

[@iconsumechildren9531]

​ @Ben C. Enlots When they backtrack on their statements they just sweep them under the rug. What happened to the thousands of wrong climate predictions made just 10 years ago

[@bilwisss]

@@benc.enlots science is ok, just not when mixed with a profit bias. ....folks get weird when profit is involved.

[@benc.enlots]

@@bilwisss So you're basically saying when one mixes science and profit one gets science fiction... explains a lot about the last couple years, eh?

[@bilwisss]

@@benc.enlots just a vague generalization by me. ... user experience may vary.

[@kosiekoos9408]

He got it all.planned. yhe sweet spot and all. You wont resist.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

If it was exotic meats and organs, that could hopefully reduce the strain from poachers for things like tigers. I'll take a Petri dish of gator myself and swordfish. I stopped eating swordfish a long time ago.

[@plaidpanda]

Genuinely curious about why swordfish in particular.

[@kennyholmes5196]

Sharks, too. Shark-fin soup made using cultivated shark fins would prove a massive help for getting the pressure off of wild shark populations.

[@asmodiusjones9563]

@@plaidpanda swordfish are apex predators and build up concentrations of mercury that are too high for human consumption. Many fish have this issue, like barracuda, tuna to a lesser extent depending on the species, several species of shark.

[@asmodiusjones9563]

Bro gator is not an exotic meat. Alligators are thriving due to innovative farming/conservation efforts (they take eggs laid in the wild, hatch them, grow them into adolescents, release about 12% because that is how many of an alligator brood survive in the wild, and harvest the rest). Eat alligator meat with abandon. It is significantly less environmentally taxing than beef.

[@plaidpanda]

@@asmodiusjones9563 Good answer, thanks! I knew about tuna; this makes sense. My dad used to catch swordfish, smoke it, and FedEx it to me. I often made dip out of it, which was a real treat. I hope we see lab created seafood that's contaminate free in my lifetime!

[@PockyFiend]

So, who's doing something like this with beef?

[@edmunddantes7097]

This looks expensive....

[@willsmith39]

This definitely won't give you some ghastly cancer years down the line 🙄

[@danielhill3665]

Can you do that with people.? Like grow a liver.?🤔

[@patriciacuozzo359]

I don't eat alot of meat.

[@pqlasmdhryeiw8]

Humans have NOT been eating chicken for 1,000s of years, though. It's originally a forest fowl from Asia and it's only been a consistent source of meat since the 1800s. And only the 1900s has seen progress in raising a chick into a muscle-heavy chicken. As opposed to an older hen.

[@asmodiusjones9563]

I’m sorry, but this just isn’t true. It’s true that they probably weren’t first raised for food and it was millennia between when they were domesticated and started to be consumed, but at some point around 2,000 years ago people started eating them in the Middle East. It is also true that they were relatively expensive as food until the 1800s, but it’s also the case that farmers raised them on a subsistence basis well before that, because they are relatively low-investment and provide eggs.

[@EA-js1me]

All the Luddites in the comments. If we listened to those people, humanity wouldn’t even have invented the wheel.

[@kennyholmes5196]

Or have gotten the first computer. The first computers were made to weave fabric, funnily enough!

[@grapeseed427]

"It's not a tumahh" it's a...chicken???

[@ludwigiapilosa508]

Would people eat it if it were grown from human cells? The Dahmer burger.

[@lisamewborn7102]

No thank you!

[@prodantech]

Just like the chicken we’ve been eating for thousands of years? Our craze for meat is a modern issue. Part of the solution is for us to reduce our meat consumption. The amount of meat we eat is silly.

[@GhANeC]

Great thumbnail

[@powerfulberry237]

Of course we are getting sceptical comments coming from people with no contributions to our society who somehow think they are qualified to comment on the "dAnGeR" or the "dIsGrAcEfUlNeSs" of all these as if they have eaten this and suffered the consequences to warn us. It would help if you actually sound like you know what ur talking about before issuing baseless warnings

[@bilwisss]

conjecture and projection?

[@vootamu1]

@@bilwisss ,that's exactly what it is.

[@bilwisss]

@@vootamu1 and a provoking stance?

[@iconsumechildren9531]

federal agent

[@edwinnakamura1726]

Ugh, sounds sketchy…….dolly the cloned sheep was traumatic enough!!

[@andrewmacdaniels212]

People already eat "Beyond" and "Impossible" fake beef.

[@downwiththeclique7239]

Unless I'm raising it, I'm going to have to cut meat out of my diet 😭 you want me to eat ENGINEERED chicken and act like it's normal 😂

[@powerfulberry237]

Living in caves was normal too, please be my guest

[@downwiththeclique7239]

@@powerfulberry237 growing your own food is not the equivalent of living in a cave, but if you want to eat manufactured meat, be my guest.

[@mbaysek]

@@powerfulberry237 caves provide natural thermal regulation, including thermal mass. They also provide a generally leak proof roof with basic mitigation as well. What exactly is your problem with caves, as compared to debt based dwellings?

[@plaidpanda]

You seriously think the meat you're eating now wasn't "engineered?" Bless your heart, honey.

[@kennyholmes5196]

did you know? Humans have been engineering crops since even before day one of agriculture. That means you've been eating engineered foods your whole life. You just didn't complain about it because those engineered foods were done in an unguided manner. This is just speeding up the process that happens naturally and doing it in such a way that there's absolutely no wasted material, as opposed to having to rely on getting minimal waste like is normal for animal-based agriculture.

[@bizzjoe]

What an absolute disgrace

[@plaidpanda]

Why?

[@user-Jamie218]

To quote the clerk in don’t be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood: You don’t like, You don’t buy!

[@powerfulberry237]

@@plaidpanda something about god and blah blah. Tbf we need to remove 90% of our IQ to really comprehend the compelling argument hidden within his short spam of a comment

[@vootamu1]

@@powerfulberry237 , are you a paid troll or something? You've commented numerous times so I'm wondering why that is.

[@bilwisss]

@@vootamu1 i would like to understand better... their motive, agenda and stance, ...

[@fangslaughter1198]

Awesome A miracle

[@jc4me4eva91]

But then there will be too much chickens roaming around the world. Natural life cycles and food chains promote balance.

[@Noctem_pasa]

You could just not have the chickens in the slaughterhouse reproduce en masse

[@plaidpanda]

There's _nothing_ natural about factory-raised animals. When was the last time you saw a pesky, wild chicken? What a spectacularly stupid comment.

[@ludwigiapilosa508]

Bonehead argument we've all heard a million times. Just a thought, but maybe there are so many chickens because we breed them into existence on an industrial scale? Not exactly part of a natural life cycle...

[@jc4me4eva91]

@@ludwigiapilosa508 did you know if we disrupt the lives of bees 🐝, the human race could die! I believe the same goes for artificial chicken, God gave us all this real chicken to use, not avoid. And yes, I believe people do over breed chickens and some livestock.

[@jc4me4eva91]

@@Noctem_pasa historically, humans have always kept livestock from the beginning of times after the nomad ages when nomads settled down. Today we just misuse our power over livestock. They shouldn’t be held in slaughterhouses but on contained, humane open lands.

[@jennypotts2008]

Smh

[@1indefinitetruth]

may i recommend using a more appetizing dish as an example to sell me on lab chicken...😕

[@jamesva7363]

Now the wealthy will have real chicken meat, while the poor eats this

[@ENigma-um8zw]

“Tastes like, Victory..!”

[@karenacton3854]

Well….that should Jack up the price.

[@plaidpanda]

Price will be higher in the beginning, as with any new technology.

[@sberesford2523]

Another Margaret Atwood story coming to fruition

[@plaidpanda]

Spoken like someone who's never read Atwood.

[@sberesford2523]

@@plaidpanda read Oryx and Crake and get back to me... oh snotty one

[@danieldipalma704]

One day I hope we will not have to slaughter animals for food. Instead we will grow our meat in a lab.

[@cynthiajones4332]

In the end times there will be a great falling away from the truth, lawlessness will abound. If you confess Jesus is Lord, believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead you will be saved (fromhell) Romans10:9 Jesus died for you believe & repent the consequences are eternal.

[@seanmcgovern1779]

This is a phenomenal breakthrough.

[@sciencesaves]

I can't wait to try human meat!!!

[@Squishmallows154]

First comment!

[@boom8606]

Now this fake news

[@Lucas-zg1vz]

What about it is fake?

[@douglaswright9701]

"It's better for the environment!" Right, because that high tech lab absolutely doesn't look like it uses the same energy as a small city!

[@superme2k1]

but if that small city can produce enough meat to satisfy an entire country, why not?

[@GetYourPull18]

It's not that simple.

[@Meiseptemberx]

It’s not just energy it’s also the water we use to grow the crops we use to feed livestock from birth to death, it’s the land we use farm the crops and house the livestock, it’s the emissions that the livestock themselves produce, it goes on and on there’s probably more in the chain of production I’m not thinking of.

[@richmoney3238]

this is sick!

[@botmes4044]

This technology, among others, will help us colonize space. At the very least, it will free up millions of acres of farmland currently dedicated to feedstock. I say make it happen now.