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    Lightbulb What if you could eat chicken without actually killing a chicken?



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    San Francisco-based startup Memphis Meats announced this week that it had grown chicken in a lab — chicken strips, to be precise, according to The Wall Street Journal. The strips, which were grown using self-reproducing cells, are technically “meat,” but because the cells were not from an animal, the process by which this “meat” was “raised” is much cleaner, resulting in animal food that has the potential to sate both environmental groups as well as animal rights activists and vegetarians. Memphis Meats says it’s hoping the product is ready for commercial sale by 2021.

    The company is part of an ever-increasing horde of Silicon Valley startups trying to solve the complicated problems of the meat industry, which range from cultural ideas about food to industrial and environmental issues to, increasingly, discussions about animal cruelty. A 2012 Gallup poll found that 5 percent of Americans consider themselves vegetarians, although people routinely lie about meat consumption. Still, this represents a fairly steep increase from just a few years ago, when it hovered around 1 percent. And it’s not really vegetarians that lab-grown meat startups are after, anyway: It’s meat eaters.

    Netherlands-based Mosa Meats is another company that is focusing on creating lab-grown beef. But Memphis Meats’ focus on chicken might be because Americans now consume more chicken than any other meat, with each adult in the country consuming an average of 90 pounds per year, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. The environmental impact of raising chickens to meet this demand is devastating.

    Factory farms such as those owned by Tyson, the largest producer of chicken in the U.S., do not follow environmentally clean practices by almost any standards, polluting local water supplies and using up land and water for feeding. Perhaps that’s because raising each animal quickly and to a weight that is unnatural is a very expensive process. Estimates vary, but small farms say that each bird costs about $40 to raise, while at larger farms it costs about $4 per animal from hatching to slaughter. The cost differential is clear evidence of the harsh methods used in factories. Factory farms regularly give animals antibiotics to combat unclean conditions and increase size; this is commonly attributed as a primary cause of human resistance to the drugs. About 99 percent of animals raised for slaughter in the U.S. come from factory farms, and about a third of the land mass of the Earth is used in raising livestock. More so than chicken, livestock is incredibly inefficient to raise: It takes about 2,500 gallons of water to produce just a pound of beef.

    It is surprising then that giant meat companies such as Tyson, which has an annual revenue of $40 billion, would signal an interest in lab-grown chickens, but that is just what it has done. Last December, Tyson launched a VC fund to invest in “meatless meats,” signalling that it sees an opportunity for a cheaper way to make a buck while feeding the masses.

    Lab-grown meats are a new frontier in meat replacement, distinct from products meant to taste like meat but are actually plant-based, like most veggie burgers and newer products from companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger, which is made from coconut oil, wheat, and potatoes. If successful, the lab-grown meats will actually be, well, meat. The Memphis Meats chicken strips cost about $9,000 per pound to produce, but they are prototypes, which are expensive to make. When a final product is determined, costs will likely fall dramatically. Companies working on lab-grown meats know that in order for them to be commercially viable, they will have to cost roughly what livestock-based meats cost. And that is the challenge.


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    Oh, yummy.
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    hey! brilliant idea..

    Monsanto Meats!!

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    test-tube meats

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    I was talking with one of my vegan friends about this and she and I agreed that the entire meat industry is going to be flipping upside down with meat grown without living animals. Actually killing animals for food is going to be something future humans will look at with disbelief.

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    Lab-grown meats? Damn, vegans all over the world would have rejoiced, including me. But the primary concern are still the health issues of eating the lab-chicken.
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    Agree and big welcome to you Hannah191

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    Nice to see you here Hannah!

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    Welcome Hannah! Love this idea. No more guilt period.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elen View Post
    Nice to see you here Hannah!
    Indeed.


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    Gmo meat scary stuff

    Monsanto meats stuff of nightmares
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    yeah, I'm on board, too...it does sound a bit suspect, though. Perhaps, no meat, lab grown or otherwise is the best option. When one has to think about it in either case, it is a bit of a stomach churner...

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    Well, there is no reason to have animal protein cloned or otherwise. "Beyond Meat" created a pea protein based "meat substitute" which has as much protein as regular animal flesh, but without the trauma. I've tried it, and there is a type of spiritual like experience (no Sh!t seriously) that happens, because there is no animal program associated with the protein.. Like ur brain goes, wait, I experienced MEAT, without any animal protein... Freaky good stuff without animal genes..

    Google (or whatever search engine you use) "Beyond Meat"

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    I'm more with Bob on this one. I'd rather use the plant based substitutes.

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    One day it will be understood that our dietary habits and the manner in which we treat our "food" has prevented the more evolved other-worlders from wanting anything to do with us. Reptilians are more than happy to eat us and have no problem with our cruelty toward other sentient beings. Hunting is a different topic. Although is is a nuanced difference.
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    Have been looking at the title of this thread and thinking and have seen the subject discussed elsewhere - declined to join in and today I will comment. If a person wants to eat Chicken then eat the meat but think about the health aspects please. Natural Chickens who are allowed to roam around outside and are living healthy natural lives - that would indicate the meat would have some type of nutritional value?

    Laboratory grown anything is suggestive of no natural or nutritional value - yes or no?

    This is what I really want to share - not discussed much but I do have some journal/magazine articles from many years ago that indicate this: The only reason that the farming of animals has been supported and is now a thriving business, is to prepare Humans for the day it is them being pushed into trucks and trains and delivered to deep underground bases for slaughter. Whether you believe it or not - it does provide some deep critical thinking matter particularly for those who are well and truly in the awakened state.

    I personally don't care for meat one way or another. Oh Amanda you are a vegetarian. I hear this often when the subject of eating meat is mentioned and I join in. No I am not - I have one label and that is my name - Amanda and that is all I need. If I were to come to your home and you make me a meal with meat - I will be grateful and I will eat it - why I hear you ask? I would eat because you have invited me into your home and have been gracious enough to feed me. The other reason I would eat the meal is due to knowing that soooooooooooooooooo many people are starving on this planet - and - they do not need to be starving.

    Not trying to be self righteous just trying to explain that food is a luxury these days for some people. Lab grown Chickens - how about the farmed ones get given a healthier life before we move into the laboratory??? If meat of any type disappeared from the supermarket - I probably would not notice. I barely eat meat and I think there are actually health benefits for Humans to not consume the flesh of another animal. Am a work in progress on that thought.

    In essence - Chickens grown in an artificial atmosphere - would produce artificial nutrition - yes? Did I just type that sentence??? All I know is that plenty of people do not eat meat and are in excellent health. I feel for all the Magnifique Animaux that suffer dreadful lives and then die in absolute fear and then that meat is eaten. Very similar to practices of certain groups of people who I will not mention here.

    Much Peace & Much Respect - Amanda
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