I’m not a vegan, but in excited by the idea of lab grown meat replacing traditional evil farming practices
Well, the last time I checked in they were still relying on fetal bovine serum and cancer cell growth to make lab meat production work (look it up yourself tho). I mean on paper it seems like good option if animal suffering is your concern, but (long term) health impacts of cancer meat are still a mild concern ig. And also it’s exorbitantly expensive (citation needed) if you can even buy it and still requires loads of resources to produce. I’d much prefer a cheap alternative, not imitation, for cheap meat. It may be hard to replace a grilled stake (in flavor, texture and most of all people’s preference) but looking at cheap pink slices of processed goo I half way expect them to already be vegan, but like in a really bad way. I feel like meat alternatives should start where it’s easy and tackle ‘authentic’ meat a later time. In the meantime I’m way more concerned with ending special meat subsidies in favor of supporting resource efficient vegan alternatives. Make vegan food cheap and people will follow, no need for perfection. For the record I’m not (quite) a vegan and price and convince are like the only things holding me back so far.
health impacts of cancer meat are still a mild concern ig.
It seems pretty unlikely to me that eating what is effectively a tasty tumor would have any significant health effects over regular meat.
True, but then health impacts of normal meat (over-) consumption are a concern too. No idea if perhaps the unnaturally uniform lab meat has less diverse macro and micro nutrients, but then again, nobody knows (I suspect, prove me wrong otherwise). But yea, over all this wasn’t my biggest concern anyways so it hardly changes my outlook either way
100% agree with this. I wanted to ask though, have you tried those new mycelium steaks that are out now? They’re so so good! Delicious and affordable and made pretty sustainably too. I’d like to see more of that kinda stuff around