Rethinking the future of lab-grown meat

In 2021, cultured meat companies raised $1.8 billion dollars in investment. But with so many roadblocks ahead and lots of different visions for the future, it’s hard to know exactly what shape the industry will take. Perhaps more importantly, what role will that future play into our lives and tastes as consumers? Watch our new video to learn more - and meet a friendly neighborhood pig.
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00:00 Intro
00:44 What is lab-grown meat?
01:30 Pros and cons of lab-grown meat
02:11 How to grow lab-grown meat
03:58 Challenges of lab-grown meat
04:41 The future of lab-grown meat
05:54 The pig in the backyard
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[@Seeker]

What are your thoughts on lab-grown meat?

[@caribbeanman3379]

Why not just create genetically modified animals that are incapable of experiencing pain and suffering? And while we're at it maybe we can engineer them to produce healthier meat too.

[@Toledotourbillion]

I'm excited, It will be like milking cows for cheese instead of the whole slaughterhouse mess.

[@zachcrawford5]

I don't understand how this would be better for the environment. To make this cultured meat, you still need to feed it and remove and manage its waste (what do you feed meat that has no mouth or digestive system and how do you source that?). It still needs oxygen and will excrete CO2. You still need to keep it at a precise and very stable body like temperature. You need to keep it free of disease. You need to simulate contractions in order for it to grow properly. To do all this properly you will need very large ultra secure buildings with perfect climate control (which is energy intensive), you will need completely STERILE conditions (not just sanitary) which will require lots of one time use, disposable equipment(tubing, cleaning supplies, gloves, quite harsh cleaning chemicals, full protective suits to keep the facility safe from gross humans and the humans safe from hash chemicals, ect), you will need numerous sensors for each vat to measure dozens of chemical and environment parameters feeding into a computer, than you need computer controlled outputs that can adjust each of those parameters. You will need to feed these cultures an extremely refined and complex soup of chemicals (since it had no brain to select what food it needs or a digestive system and other internal organs to refine it with). You will also have to somehow produce hundreds of different hormones and have them be administered in an exact regimen (since it has no specialized organs to produce and regulate such things). A cow or chicken already has ALL of this built into it. Not only that, but in the animal all that "equipment" self assembles and is entirely compostable or in some cases is a commodity in itself. It runs without electricity, self replicates (and is usually VERY enthusiastic about it lol), and you don't need a PH.D or even need to be literate to produce them. All the arguments I hear against animals as food are really arguments against poor farming practices some of which that are so obvious that even a preschooler could call them out. Or they are pretty much complete B.S. "It takes 20,000 liters of water to make one kilogram of beef!"? REALLY?! Ok then, I think NASA needs to have a meeting with these magical beef farmers so they can find out the secret of fitting 20,000 liters of water inside a kg beef because that would save them so much money and rocket fuel. My point being that they use doublespeak (and extreme over exaggeration) to intentionally mislead and scare people to push for their cause.

[@caribbeanman3379]

@@zachcrawford5 I think the point is that you can produce a lot more meat from just one animal than with conventional farming. And it's actually more environmentally friendly. Using the lab grown method produces less greenhouse gases over time than conventionally farming the herds of cows to produce the same quantity of meat. Cows produce tons and tons of methane which is an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. It is definitely more environmentally friendly. But there is also the ethical part of not having to cause animal suffering. My only issue with it is that it seems a bit technologically unwieldy - like they're solving the problem in an overly - unnecessarily - complex way. It seems easier to me to just use CRISPR to engineer cows that are incapable of suffering and pain - maybe even unconscious - and to not leave as big of a carbon footprint; and maybe even engineer them so that they produce healthier meat.

[@stopscammingman]

100% in favour!

[@fredburns6846]

The real question is, would it be legal to grow meat from ur own cells and essentially self canibalise?

[@listenhere2006]

real!

[@sabec30]

In fact that was the beginning of all this, the "intention" was to help burned people, and so they did. But, as you just said, it can be misused for freak people.

[@xsforreal]

Actually, cannibalism is NOT illegal if both parties consent to being eaten / consuming human.

[@sabec30]

@@xsforreal True!!

[@Chris-jw8vm]

Was gonna post that lefties would do this and here you are.

[@Vector_Ze]

Plant based 'meats' haven't been a part of my diet due to one fact: They are not price competitive with real meat. And, I suspect the same would be true for these lab-grown meats, but the price difference would be even wider. Also, since one of the big reasons for attempting this is to address the climatological impacts of livestock farming, the impacts of this lab meat production at scale should be closely examined.

[@jasonsinn9237]

Plant-based meats aren't price competitive to real meats because of Agricultural Subsidies. Subsidies are supplied by tax payer dollars and make meat and dairy prices artificially low so consumers can still afford it. Meat's health impact has been well studied and it is connected to numerous cancers and diseases. The environmental impact of alternative meats has also already been well studied. Their processing is far more energy efficient and the greenhouse gases are minimal compared to real meat production.

[@chapileite]

@@jasonsinn9237Environmental impact already well study? That is false. There are maybe a dozen papers about it, and for example the range in the estimated reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of cultured beef range between no reduction at all (or even higher GHG emissions) to 10-20% reduction, compared to conventional beef, with high uncertainty because there is no clear cultured meat process yet!

[@Vector_Ze]

@@jollyroger8164 I don't know whether you're addressing me, or just talking in general. I can only answer for myself. I love vegetables, but I'm no (longer) a vegetarian. Was never vegan. I eat meat because it affords variety in my diet, plus I"m an addict. But, I'm also very aware of the harm inflicted on Earth by the industrialized production of animal products. A concern I expressed in my OP, and that I'm not convinced plant based 'meat' at scale would be a better alternative environmentally. I'm not a consumer at their price points for products like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, cause I'm not rich.

[@ericsilberstein667]

The cost has gone up for meat and fish. Not plant-based or vegan foods. Inflation hasn’t affected me at all.

[@Vector_Ze]

@@ericsilberstein667 You know, I buy plenty of groceries that are not meat, nor fish. I call BS. But, if self-deception is your bag, more power to you.

[@Aragorn7884]

Bacon & bacon & bacon 🥓

[@phasm42]

A future moral dilemma: using a bioreactor to grow human meat, possibly of a specific person 😅

[@fisqual]

Ethical cannibalism yesssssss!

[@FreedomFROMReligionID]

From a LiveScience article: "While cannibalism is fun to talk about . . . the real question is how clean meat will change humanity's relationship with food from something that requires animal suffering to something made in a lab."

[@Doomroar]

Let's face it, someone is bound to go there sooner or later

[@yashizuko]

Twitch thots selling their meat lol

[@MostlyPennyCat]

I thought it was going to be something horrifying like you do surgery on the pig to get your bacon. And then let it grow new bits.

[@TheSimba86]

It's not far from it, you have one animal that gets stabbed with a biopsy instrument and has little bits of meat taken from it over and over

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@TheSimba86 Well, I get stabbed for blood tests every day so I think I'd take that over getting murdered, cooked and eaten!! 🤣 Reminds me, I need to buy some sausages

[@chapileite]

@@TheSimba86 Not over and over. You can take a single biopsy, isolate cells, return them to the pluripotent stage, and create a stable cell line that you can stock and freeze for all future experiments. Some companies are already doing this

[@Theodorus5]

Why not just isolate a stem cell that you could find in the pig then you don’t need to do the extra work to make it pluripotent ?

[@deathlytree434]

when i first heard of bio grown meat my first thought was a single cow chicken pig ect... everyone on earth treated like a best friend whos cells were used to make the meat of the world and when it finally died we would morn it collectively across the globe for its contributions and we would make sure it had the best life almost like a celebrity without all the weird worship of ego that comes from being a rich celeb. the main thing is a huge reduction in suffering for animal meats and a close bond to the creatures who help us enjoy meat in a more ethical way.

[@thijsriezebeek790]

So, where does this magical mix of 'food' for the meat-cells come from? If we want to feed a lot of people with this lab grown meat, then we'll need to produce a lot of this meat-food. This mixture is some combination of specific proteins / amino acids (if not all amino acids), fats, carbohydrates and minerals / vitamins. I feel that this will be the biggest challenge here. Even if the end product seems harmless to the environment and without animal suffering, how we produce the food mixture for this meat seems to me to be the deciding factor.

[@theholisticdog3381]

Hmm, why don't we eat the mixture instead?

[@googlesucks3713]

@@theholisticdog3381 you use manure to feed plants so they can grow healthy and fast for human consumption You wanna eat the manure instead? I mean, by all means bro

[@charsiu_808]

From dead bodies

[@Ice90001]

How about we treat the animals way better ? My chickens in my back yard are probably way higher quality than the meat i get from the store !

[@thijsriezebeek790]

Maybe we can use the eggs from your well treated chickens to feed the lab meat, it contains all essential proteins and even some fats! But this is kind of what I mean. Where are we getting these proteins? Can we really take enough from plants, soy, etc. And is that even sustainable? All wonderful questions.

[@mohammadnazriabdsamad8286]

I remember an episode of the sci-fi series "Eureka" where a farmer mass-produces lab-grown chicken meat for a town banquet. To make her procedures "organic", she uses a plant extract to substitute a compound not present in her lab-grown meats as she only grows parts of the chicken that humans eat. Unfortunately, that extract doesn't play well in the human brain once consumed, and those who eat her "chickens" at the banquet suddenly develop rock-bottom IQs.

[@aniketbiswas7660]

Didn't test it properly before sale to the general public.

[@rockerdax]

I think my biggest concern is, how sure can we be that this will end factory farms? If someone can afford to keep their factory farm running, why wouldn't they do that AND collect cells from each animal on their farm to maximize profits?

[@samvandervelden8243]

Because it will probably be much more expensive in the future than lab grown meat

[@CheapCreep]

Soylent Green is people! Yum

[@freedomwatch3991]

How do you get the vitamins and minerals into the lab grown meat?

[@dwaynethemineraljohnson412]

It too expensive and un needed it would also causes a loss of jobs for farmers if i for some reason becomes viable

[@Sam-ux8gh]

@seeker, love the content you guys put out. Im studying biotechnology at wageningen university and there is a lot of interesting biotech research going on in the netherlands. I myself am interested in microbiology and its aplications, you guys should look into that field! CO2 fixation with the ljingwood pathway is the most efficient way to capture CO2 in the enviroment. Maybe this could be a great video. It uses bifurcation to get ferodoxins in their ionic form that drives a sodium gradient for energy production. This is one of the only pathways that has an ATP neutral metabolism.

[@calebfranks3903]

Thank you, I hope there is cultured meat in our future. But thank you for being honest about the challenges still being faced.

[@grayrecluse7496]

Why?

[@calebfranks3903]

@@grayrecluse7496 to reduce suffering on the planet.

[@skybluskyblueify]

Fetal bovine serum needed to grow cultured beef always comes from a fetal cow when the mother is slaughtered.This needs to change if it wants to be truly humane.

[@Theodorus5]

Yes we need artificial FCS

[@milobickmore1053]

This is proof humanity has lost its collective mind .

[@robsoul]

As a backup in case of an emergency is great but for comercial use sounds crazy, it will worsen the current chronic disease pandemic from bad food.

[@stratos7755]

What about the fetal bovine serum? Is it not required for this? From what I heard, it is kind of a necessity for any lab-grown meat and is very expensive and as the name suggests, it comes from cows. Specifically from blood of a bovine fetus.

[@th4fl4sh4]

There are FBS-free media in development and some companies already have it.

[@stratos7755]

@@th4fl4sh4 Are those cheaper? That seems to be the biggest downside for the lab grown meat at the moment.

[@chapileite]

@@stratos7755 There is, and companies have moved or are moving towards this. Not only because of animal welfare reasons, but also because you have much more quality control on a medium free of fetal calf serum (FCS), and less batch-to-batch variation. Nevertheless I agree that significant cost reduction is essential for this process to work. How we get to that cheap medium is still a point of discussion, with many possibilities being explored now

[@Theodorus5]

Is there anything special in FCS ?

[@chapileite]

@@Theodorus5 Serum is a mix of many proteins (including growth factors, which help cells to grow and differentiate into muscle/fat/connective tissue), essential fats, and other small molecules that are important for growth. Either you add serum to the soup of nutrients that you are using to feed the cells, or you reverse engineer what things in serum are really being essential for the process and you only add those. Of course you want to move away from using serum as soon as possible to really have an animal-free product

[@markshiman5690]

Lizzie has the best looking eyes out of all the people on this channel. Blue with the dark border.

[@12q8]

I wonder if cultured meat would actually have the same nutrition, or if we can make it have even more benefits.

[@primalmind32574]

This is the plot to a eureka episode

[@piec6062]

Can not wait to see this on store shelves!

[@yigitboylu8543]

There is no shortage of goods. Fair distribution is what human need. Capitalism is the only obstacle

[@ahmadyousef7943]

Question is how many countries will accept this technology in to be legalised to where shopping companies accept this in on their frozen food ill

[@paul9299]

As much as I would love to see the idea they had at the end of the video about a local meat source and at home bio reactors, the practical application of this would be an impossible ask. Maybe in a few hundred years we'll be able to get it to where technologically it is feasible to idiot proof a bio reactor, but currently it's too much to ask. I can see some idiot thinking they're going to create meat and forgetting one step in process and serving botulism to their entire family and suing anyone and everyone. It's almost reminiscent of where nuclear technology was in the early 1950's when they were postulating that every family would have a nuclear reactor in their house, nuclear powered cars, etc

[@ismaelrodriguez714]

Idk, I think there be a middle ground of both. Most people would buy it from the market like we do meat today and a few woul have their own bio reactors as a hobby like the ones who make wine, jams, pickes and fermented stuff.

[@cageybee7221]

maybe not at home one, but imagine a restaurant like subway where you could customize your own cut of meat?

[@High-Tech-Geek]

I'm sure part of the process would be testing the final result. People have been preparing and making their own food since the dawn of time. People take risks all time. They eat raw unpasteurized milk, raw eggs, mushrooms, flowers and herbs they've picked, parasite infested fish (most fish), steak tartare (raw), sea urchins & blowfish that can be poisonous if not prepared properly... Heck, even raw chicken is a death sentence if you don't prepare it properly and clean your work area.

[@louf7178]

Other animals don't have a problem with eating other animals. We regard that as "survival".

[@putyograsseson]

other animals don’t exactly have a choice in eating other animals

[@louf7178]

@@putyograsseson You have the choice not to eat at all.

[@willbyrob6582]

Other animals don’t have a problem with beating each other up. Does that make it okay for someone to beat up their dog?

[@shaunm9025]

to think we thought downloading food would be impossible.

[@DaveSomething]

reminds me of the joke about the pig with wooden legs... and the punchline of "you don't eat a great pig like that all at once!"

[@baz3184]

Isnt it cheeper to grow meat on an animal by a farmer than growing meat in a lab by a scientist?

[@nickthaskater]

One of the biggest benefits is being able to scale upward rather than having massive sprawls of animal agriculture. The amount of land dedicated to cows farting is obscene. Cultured meat can mirror vertical farming not to mention be cultivated in city centres cutting down on transportation costs (financial and environmental).

[@Zukunftswerkstadt]

when it come to the market i will buy it that´s for shure

[@jpelorat]

So, you can cute talk to your lovable living pet pig and say to it how delicious it is with 100% certainty and 0 irony😜

[@chocolate4135]

If the food and meat is not real then no deal

[@alexselg]

Nice thumbnail :)

[@svetlioivanov3506]

I think there might be another application in the future - for Mars colonies. It will be extremely expensive to have real animals there.

[@thstroyur]

And that's pretty much how your average brainstorming session for your average sci-fi dystopia goes

[@angadsingh9314]

@@thstroyur What’s dystopian about it? If there is no way to distinguish between meat from an animal that was once living vs cultured meat, then there’s no problem.

[@thstroyur]

@@angadsingh9314 Speak for yourself - the Martian colonists are free to think differently.

[@jmoney2568]

And thus The Matrix is born and the countdown begins.

[@yunseiprod]

I like this girl she doesn’t read le script she just talk

[@edwardchester1]

There's some truly insane discussion in this video. Why on earth would anyone want to grow their own meat? The whole point of processes like this is that they would inherently lend themselves to being industrial. There are no concerns about animal welfare so you just make the meat in as efficient a way as possible. Might there be artisanal meat producers that use better starter ingredients? Sure, but not people at home. It's equivalent of saying that because people like to grind and brew coffee from beans they'll want a coffee roaster at home. The level of skill, risk of failure and overall complication is just way beyond anything anyone wants to do at home.

[@dparsons85]

Yeah, it's insane to think that humans will not pursue convenience at all cost especially when that's how we've always worked. Sure, there will be some outliers that want to take the time go to a farm, get a biopsy sample, do their at home cultivation and eat that meat a couple days or weeks later but EVERYONE else is just going to go to the grocery store or have it delivered to their house. The pig-in-the-backyard example is simply wishful thinking for people who want that type of life. Everyone is going to be fine with cultivated meat the second they bite into a deathless hamburger that is indistinguishable from the real thing.

[@chapileite]

I agree with you in not seeing a future on the idea of local small production meat plants. There are many technical challenges that would make this impractical and, more importantly for our hypercapitalist society, less cost efficient

[@TLM860]

Bosco needs more petting

[@thejmelus]

I just want to know when Star Trek food replicators will be invented 🤪

[@Fanimik]

Lab meat is great fantastic fabulous idea 💡 great 👋👋👋👋🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@peterkiss3591]

This video made me wonder. We could bypass the structural problem by providing an existing structure, like mycelium. We create the structure in a 3D modelling software and find a way to grow mycelia that way. Once you have the grown structure, you deactivate the mycelia, place the meat you wish to culture and put it in a bioreactor. Now there is a chance, the meat will not come out as a slurry, but actual meat with structure.

[@marygreen1495]

This is essentially what was referred to in the video as scaffolding. Some labs are working on using bio molecules like collagen and silk to create this scaffold. I think it’s even possible to use a bioprinter that suspends the grown meat in a solution. This allows the printer to create a high-resolution scaffold where cells will be placed.

[@chapileite]

Fully agree with Mary Green's comment. The challenge, however, is to scale up this production using scaffolds and make it economically and technically viable.

[@Theodorus5]

Why use scaffolds tho? Can’t cells make thier own scaffold like when the animal embryo grows normally?

[@redcolonybigfoot]

I never thought the movie Idiocracy could become true but now. These same people would water their lawn with Gatorade

[@dnaann1867]

Wow

[@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

I'm going vegetarian

[@Theodorus5]

Vegan is better :)

[@bbenso691]

Lmao BARF

[@monishmaha]

Since the whole idea of lab grown meat is projected as alternative to animal farming. Does this have low/negligibale impact on climate change or these companies don't take about it?

[@nicolascalvache8102]

It will reduce the amount of animals needed for meat, meaning less methane gas, less land consumed, and less resources to support livestock, thus positively impacting the Earth's health. I believe this is part of the mission with this technology.

[@ToneyCrimson]

No more billions of cows burping out methane is always better for the climate.

[@rahmadrenaldi2624]

@@nicolascalvache8102 yeah, but in larger scale, how much resources does this method use ? Like raw material for growing the culture, energy consumption for the machines, and so on and so forth

[@BUCURPOPA]

Why aren't they using embrionic stem cells to create the meat, as those have a much bigger multiplication potential with far less dna mistakes/mutations. The older an organism gets, the harder it is for its cells to multiply an do so correctly. Also... Isn't there a higher possibility of getting prions (mad cow disease) in the cultured meat?!

[@valentine8161]

Well that's exactly the goal

[@vicky116]

Wow never thought of that.

[@bin4ry_d3struct0r]

Does any part of the meat growing process involve tumors?

[@Theodorus5]

:-o

[@Zukunftswerkstadt]

it will be Nice to see how i can Grow my own Meat at home ...

[@ericcarabetta1161]

The problem is capitalism, not meat. Humans have evolved as omnivores and have eaten meat for thousands and thousands of years without issue. It only becomes a massive problem when giant corporations try to profit off of it and then we get all the subsequent problems with pollution, animal cruelty, etc.

[@angadsingh9314]

What are you even on about? Steep rise in population is to blame, not capitalism. Larger population to feed translates to larger animal numbers which means more pollution. In fact, agriculture of all kinds under the Soviets was laughably inefficient. Not everything is about capitalism vs communism.

[@Incorruptus1]

I would rather eat meat coming from a lab, than slaughtering animals for it. But giving up on meat is not a thing. We humans are omnivores. Every time I run into someone mainly vegetarian I can see they are, simply by the lack of showing completely healthy to me. Specially seen in heir hair growth and skin tones, as well as their muscle build up and - behavior. I am a "flexi-tarian" mainly to hand the chance to other food sources than what I was brought up with and to show respect to animals. I try avoid pork at all since they are mistreated most often.

[@ztipsamme]

Not me eating vegan hotdogs and losing my appetite from the sight of the meat in this video. Should have chosen a different video as entertainment while eating, he he.

[@garrafa517]

Why do I have the feeling that sounds like more ultraprocessed food?

[@chapileite]

I would argue that cows also ultra process the grass they eat in order to convert it to muscle. But I see your point: a cow in Germany or in the US have biologically the same metabolism (roughly). While a production plant in Germany may use completely different nutrients and supplements (ultra processed nutrients?) for growing the cells than a US production Plant. Playing Devil's advocate here: I also don't know how meat is processed even in my local farm.

[@ThomasSchannel]

You could teach the pig to farm vegetables

[@zerocool1344]

Humans are not going to stop eating meat, but if meat could be lab grown I personally see no issues. It could really help developing nations that rely on imports.

[@Fanimik]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@LumberingTroll]

What kind of pig is that? I want one :D

[@Seeker]

Bosco is a teacup pig! 🐷

[@ToneyCrimson]

@@Seeker Doesnt look very much like a teacup to me...

[@PerceptionVsReality333]

@@Seeker They're cute.

[@REOsama]

Eating the meat grown from an animal still alive is actually more disturbing in my opinion

[@Theodorus5]

That’s true in normal animal farming? Animal family and descendants still alive...

[@rustyshackleford3862]

Down with Frakin Fish

[@JamMcG]

If only there was a biochemical system containing a digestive system, immune system, locomotive, self proliferative and could digest otherwise unusable biomass such as grassland. It’s such a shame….

[@angadsingh9314]

Mass animal husbandry is devastating for the environment, wiseass

[@JamMcG]

@@angadsingh9314 Explain the thermodynamics that allows a factory to do the same things for less? Animal husbandry has been practised for millennia, its modern agricultural practices that are unsustainable and that is true for crop production also. How on earth does replacing biochemical systems optimised by millions of years of evolution and hundreds of years of selective breeding with hydrocarbon driven factories, with lower efficiency do less environmental damage? Animals recycle the nutrients uptake and make them bioavailable for plants, as well as providing environments for mycelial activity and microorganic diversity. Synthetic sludge is the only thing that could be produced more efficiently that real meat.

[@willbyrob6582]

If only there were a biochemical system that could convert waste products into food, kinda like Elwood’s Dog Meat farm, where their dogs convert waste products into tasty nutritious calories for people to enjoy.

[@shnarfy]

Vegan is Latin for poor hunter.

[@MikeLawlorBarefoot]

I'd be willing to try it out once the technology got there. By then we may have found a different way that would be more efficient. But I'd bet my bottom dollar religious groups are Gunna go bat sh8t crazy when the idea is perfected and able to feed the world.

[@chinookwynds3206]

Pass...

[@martinb5367]

Is the future. Very soon only the richest people will eat a meat from a living animal.

[@paulbunyan9436]

How much fossil fuel do we need to produce a pound of lab grown meat?

[@Ice90001]

I feel like the electricity used to make this would outweigh the cost of growing the food in our back yards

[@TrU_homie]

Nuclear energy / or put the facility in the desert or near a dam get energy from the sun or hydro energy

[@elizabethgary2640]

How about eating less meat. What would be the long term effect? It’s a no for me.

[@tariqmartin5826]

This literally could solve world hunger

[@robford2122]

Nice. Bugs and human grown meat. Hopefully we can still have soy milk. Can't wait!!

[@nahoj.2569]

Plants are more resource efficient.

[@InfiniteProdu]

Some pig!

[@Chris_0202]

lab grown nice

[@wyktron]

She's beautiful

[@benjoleo]

yeah that's a really nice pig

[@anasfaqih7507]

In 20 years, lab meat will become everyday food at affordable prices and real meat from animals will become a luxury/expensive item

[@The_Natsu.]

Well, if there a far future, "real meat" would probably be illegal. Unless you are at a place that can't do lab meat.

[@ExopMan]

Agreed

[@ChristaFree]

@@The_Natsu. you vote your lawmakers into office. That means you're in control.

[@Trip_Ts]

I wonder they had try making animals grow meat ball like fruits on tree?

[@sammysam2615]

That's the Goal of people like Gates and Schwab Only the elites will eat real food while the peasants eat fake food

[@arboreal9153]

Erm would rather eat plants then eat those things.

[@mafzaalafzaal4196]

Urdu translate please

[@Fanimik]

❤❤vegan 🌱🌱🌱

[@thecooldude71]

Have fun with Bill Gates

[@shugadaddy4841]

Really tired of those who think EVERYONE should give up meat. Don't force your diet and way of life onto others.

[@jeanneanvreeland3999]

100% correct !!!

[@armzbarmz]

How one pig can feed a Christian neighbourhood

[@willbyrob6582]

How one dog can feed a Christian neighborhood

[@RichMitch]

No no no

[@il_vero_saspacifico6141]

The problem Is that the "juice" used to grow that meat Is not susteinable at all, nor economically, enviormentally or from the Animal suffering side

[@chapileite]

Yes and no. It is not economically viable yet. But all meat based companies have moved or are moving away from using fetal calf serum, which indeed is not animal cruelty free.

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

There's no reason slaughter houses should be so stressful. More people need to experience what being choked out feels like (Spoiler. It feels like falling asleep) We never should have trusted meat production to the people who don't love the animals

[@Theodorus5]

What

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

@@Theodorus5 what has you confused?

[@Theodorus5]

@@GaasubaMeskhenet seems like a bad idea....choking animals I mean

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

@@Theodorus5 sounds like you think the only kind of choking is crushing the wind pipe~ If an animal trusts you they won't mind you petting their neck. And if you get them used to hugs it's even easier

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

@@Theodorus5 could probs even be automated. There are already several strange machines that cows love or are at least comfortable in

[@TheSimba86]

It will never be as cheap as raising and slaughtering or hunting your own. I don't care what they say, synthetic meat will never be cheap or even tasty

[@Marcus-kz7rw]

The world needs more regular meat production to make it available to everyone that wants it.

[@Theodorus5]

No it is cruel

[@lightsnaketv]

nope.

[@TheCian19]

Even though I love meat, I can't wait for something like this to happen just thinking of world hunger, environmental effects and nutrition

[@Alia-ms1rp]

Or, instead of waiting, you could just go vegan.

[@dwaynethemineraljohnson412]

@@Alia-ms1rp no and also this idea is stupid think of all the farmers who could lose their jobs

[@chapileite]

I agree that culture meat can help solving current environmental and food security problems. However, I think we should see it as only one tool in an arsenal of strategies to tackle those problems. Other things we should be doing: less meat in our diets, more plant-based proteins, more efficient crops, etc.

[@putyograsseson]

@@dwaynethemineraljohnson412 better to have farmers losing jobs than animals losing lives

[@PerceptionVsReality333]

@@Alia-ms1rp Or the third world stops having so many kids. Edit: That will never happen.

[@brokinglet5483]

But it can also wipe out ranchers. We gotta also realize what’s going to be the reaction to that action. No one will be able to work for the land anymore, of course for meat which pays for the ranch.

[@brokinglet5483]

Yea they can do plants but cows can bring in thousands which is what is needed to run a ranch.

[@jctoad]

Put solar panels on the grazing land to power the bioreactors in what was the barn

[@brokinglet5483]

@@jctoad only practical with a lot of acre. You don’t make much off 1 acre of solar you need multiple. There is huge fields all around here with solar fields but 1 acre of livestock is a lotttttttttt more profitable. If you have 45-100 acres and have funds to buy solar sure

[@dermonch7959]

This could be one of the most revolutionary tech since decades. So much pollution around traditional food products.

[@Karma_616]

Amazing! It's really sad people don't stop eating animals. That we have to come up with crazy contraptions to get them to be kind.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Taking a major food source away from people shockingly does this.

[@thstroyur]

And next time you meet a hungry carnivore in the wild, try politely asking them to be kind, and see what happens.

[@bjrock1235]

@@thstroyur You’re really comparing humans to hungry carnivores? Give me a break.

[@thstroyur]

@@bjrock1235 Yes, I am - and you gave no reason why I shouldn't - so gimme a break, yourself...

[@bjrock1235]

@@thstroyur Humans aren’t carnivores dumb dumb

[@chocolate4135]

NO!!!

[@johndoe4441]

homegrown meat, you can bet your A I will eat myself XD

[@Entropy825]

The solutions to most of the problems of cultured meat will be found in genetic engineering. In principle, cells can be made to do anything. Currently animal cells only grow in certain ways under certain conditions, because they're genetically programmed to behave as though they're part of a larger organism that is living a regular life. But with genetic engineering, it should be possible to make them grow the way we want and produce regular (or better than regular) meat in a vat

[@Theodorus5]

What genetic code do we need to do that is it a lot

[@andyreznick]

I could see this having huge applications off-earth as humanity expands into the solar system.

[@DonkeyKong64InstructionBooklet]

NO WAY.

[@DonkeyKong64InstructionBooklet]

All the people in this video look like the kind of people who'd be excited about lab-grown fake meat.

[@droops001]

First! Such a rare achievement!

[@benoitgagnon8134]

Second!😂

[@davidmedlin8562]

It's actually not rare there's one for every video and thousands of videos a day

[@DonkeyKong64InstructionBooklet]

I can't believe there's still people out there creaming their pants over being the first idiot to comment on a video. Reminds me of that reddit mod that snatched up the free switch just to gloat about it.

[@droops001]

@@davidmedlin8562 Don’t be jealous David. You’ll get your shot on day!

[@ChristaFree]

Nope.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

_Yeeeeees_ 🤩🤩

[@James-Tanner]

Absolutely not this is gross.