#Lab-grown meat

[aquitainequeen]

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[incohearent]

Veganism is a PSYOP? (oompaville) by Unnatural Vegan on Youtube

[yearson25]

🌍 2025: A Turning Point in Human History

 We are living in an extraordinary moment in history. The year 2025 marks a point where world-historic, game-changing technologies are not only emerging but also scaling. At the same time, America and much of the world are undergoing deep societal and political shifts.

This is not the first time we’ve been here. There have been three previous moments in American history where the nation stood at this kind of civilizational tipping point. And now, we find ourselves again in the midst of a major shift—a moment where new systems are being born while old systems begin to crumble.

[fiercemillennial]

🚨NEWS FLASH, FIERCE ONES! 🚨 The future of food is here, and it’s making a splash! 🐟 The US just approved lab-grown salmon, and it's already on plates! Wildtype's cultivated creation is redefining dinner and sustainability. #FierceTrends #FutureOfFood

[theglobeandatlas]

FDA Approves Lab-Grown Salmon in World FIrst

For the first time ever, a lab-grown seafood company has met the United States Food and Drug Administration’s requirements for demonstrating the safety of a new cell-cultured product. Wildtype’s cultivated salmon is now for sale in Portland, Oregon.  This marks the first time that lab-grown seafood (also known as “cultivated seafood” or “cell-cultured seafood”) is available for sale anywhere in…

[critical-skeptic]

Rare (Part II): The Lab-Grown Revolution

Let’s take this conversation up a notch because it’s not just about how meat is cooked (or undercooked, if we’re being honest). No, this is bigger—existential, even. It’s about the fundamental stupidity of resisting progress when science has handed us the golden ticket to ethical, sustainable, and technologically perfect meat. Yes, I’m talking about lab-grown meat, the one thing that should unite meat-eaters and non-meat-eaters alike, but somehow manages to attract opposition from every corner of the culinary and ideological spectrum.

Meat Eaters: Primitive Loyalty to Tradition

Let me start by addressing my fellow omnivores. I’m a meat-eater. I’m human, and like most of humanity, I’ve inherited an evolutionary predisposition to enjoy the taste, texture, and smell of cooked meat. It’s primal, it’s ingrained, and I make no apologies for it. But here’s where I draw the line: when meat-eaters cling to the idea of killing animals as though it’s some sacred rite of passage. As if stabbing a cow and carving it into steaks is essential to our identity as humans.

Newsflash: it’s not. You don’t need to worship the blood and guts of traditional meat production to be a meat-eater. If lab-grown meat tastes the same, feels the same, cooks the same, and is molecularly identical to what we’ve been eating for millennia—without killing a single sentient being—why wouldn’t you jump at the opportunity? Oh, right, because “ooga booga, real meat come from real animal.” Congratulations, you’ve just made a cannibal look rational.

Vegans and Vegetarians: A House Divided

Now, let’s talk about the other side of the aisle. There’s a subset of vegans and vegetarians who get it—who see lab-grown meat for what it is: the ultimate compromise, a way to enjoy the sensory experience of meat without the moral or ethical baggage. But then there’s the other subset: the purists, the moral absolutists who oppose lab-grown meat on the grounds that it “still perpetuates the idea of eating animals.”

Let me break this down for you: lab-grown meat isn’t an animal. It’s meat without the suffering, the factory farms, or the environmental devastation. It’s the answer to your prayers, but because it still looks and tastes like the thing you’ve sworn off, you can’t handle it. That’s not morality; that’s dogma. You’ve turned your ideology into a prison, and now you’re standing in the way of the single greatest leap forward for animal welfare.

Capitalists and Industry: Stagnation for Profit

And then there’s the meat industry itself—a bloated, lumbering dinosaur that refuses to evolve. These are the same people who’ll tell you lab-grown meat isn’t “real” while pumping traditional meat full of hormones, antibiotics, and God-knows-what else. They’ve built their empires on the backs of industrial-scale slaughter, and they’re terrified of a future where they can’t profit off mass suffering.

Let’s be real: the technology for lab-grown meat is here. It’s been here. But the meat industry doesn’t want to adopt it because it threatens their bottom line. Transitioning to lab-grown meat would require rethinking supply chains, retooling factories, and—heaven forbid—investing in innovation. Instead, they pump millions into lobbying campaigns to convince the public that lab-grown meat is unnatural, unsafe, or unappetizing.

The Anti-Tech Luddites

Of course, no discussion about lab-grown meat would be complete without mentioning the anti-science crowd. These are the same people who think vaccines are a conspiracy, 5G causes brain cancer, and lab-grown meat is somehow “unnatural.” Never mind that traditional meat production is the most unnatural thing imaginable—an assembly line of death designed to maximize efficiency at the expense of ethics, sustainability, and basic decency.

Lab-grown meat is the culmination of human ingenuity, a way to mimic nature while transcending its flaws. But these Luddites would rather cling to their superstition and pseudoscience than embrace a solution that benefits everyone.

The Cannibal Analogy

Here’s the analogy that sums it all up: Imagine a society of cannibals. You offer them lab-grown human meat—identical in every way to the real thing, but made without harming a single human being. Any rational cannibal would jump at the opportunity. But no, these hypothetical cannibals would rather keep eating their siblings, chanting “real meat taste better” while wiping Aunt Linda’s blood off their chins.

Sound absurd? That’s exactly where we are with traditional meat production. We have the technology to produce perfect, cruelty-free meat, but instead, we stick with the old ways because they’re familiar. It’s embarrassing.

Transcendence Through Technology

I might be biased as a transcendentalist, but I believe humanity’s purpose is to embrace technology that allows us to evolve beyond our primal instincts. Lab-grown meat isn’t just a scientific breakthrough; it’s a moral imperative. It’s a way to enjoy the best parts of being human—our love of food, flavor, and culinary creativity—while leaving behind the worst parts: our cruelty, wastefulness, and ignorance.

Call to Action: Demand Better

We need to demand better—not just from the industries and governments that control our food supply, but from ourselves. It’s our collective mindset that fuels this stagnation. Every time we accept traditional meat as the default, every time we shrug and say “it’s just the way things are,” we’re complicit in our own backwardness.

It’s time to call out these mentalities. The meat purists, the anti-science cultists, the capitalist traditionalists—they’re all obstacles to progress. And if we don’t battle them with reason, logic, and, yes, forceful advocacy when necessary, we’ll continue to be the most willfully primitive species in the universe. An embarrassment to any advanced species out there, and to our future selves.

Final Word: Eat Meat, Advocate for Lab-Grown

Eat meat if you want to. Enjoy it, savor it, celebrate it. But don’t settle for the old ways. Demand lab-grown meat. Advocate for it. Push for a future where we can have our steak and eat it too—without the blood, the suffering, or the shame. If we can’t do that, then we deserve every bit of mockery and scorn any intelligent alien species would heap upon us. And frankly, we’d deserve it.

[trendynewsnow]

The Challenge of China's Meat Alternatives and Global Food Security

The Rising Challenge of China’s Meat Alternatives In late September, a group of 11 Republican members of Congress raised alarms regarding a new and emerging threat from China. They directed a letter to the directors of national intelligence and the Department of Agriculture’s Office of Homeland Security, warning that China is actively pursuing dominance in the production of meat alternatives.…

[may-odaigahara]

one of my main annoying crank opinions is that I can't wait until lab grown meat takes off so we can destroy the livelihoods of ranchers and alfalfa farmers

[truegeorge]

Lab Grown Meat

 J Y Provocative Question #31: What are your thoughts on lab-grown meat? Should lab-grown meat innovation be pursued, or should it be banned? How do you think lab-grown meat should be regulated? It is kind of interesting that meat can be manufactured in a laboratory. True_George has heard that it is done by taking the stem cells of a cow and putting them in a petri dish with ammino acids and…

[meetthemeat]

(via GOOD Meat - Meet The Cultured Meat)

[z0mbiechylde]

The disgust and revulsion I feel only from reading the headline. WHO WOULD EVEN EAT THIS POISON? This is not food!

Follow the science

[fexjam]

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[acti-veg]

“They should improve conditions in farms, but lab grown meat will replace it all one day anyway.”

Okay but you understand that animal agriculture industries are using your money to ensure that neither of those things happen, right? Lab grown meat has just been outlawed in a third US state thanks to the efforts of beef lobbyists. Meat, dairy and egg industries continue to make enormous profits while lobbying against any environmental protections or welfare reforms that would put a dent in their profits.

If you think that there is a way to produce animal products ethically, but you acknowledge that the way they are produced now is not ethical, then why doesn’t your current behaviour reflect the fact that you think these industries are unethical now? Why would these industries change when they know that you’re going to pay them regardless? Why aren’t you boycotting, too?

[probablyasocialecologist]

Using current technology that consumes a lot of energy to grow animal tissue in a lab, cultured meat’s emissions can be as high as those of beef burgers while costing up to 40,000 times more. By replicating beef, the health impacts of lab-grown meat are similarly bad. Although costs and emissions could fall as production processes become more efficient, this would require substantial investment and technological advancements. Public investment in both lab-grown meat and ultra-processed plant-based replacements may not be justified considering their relative impacts. Readily available alternatives are affordable and do not call for new technologies or product development.

3rd December 2024