Scientists Flesh Out Plans to Grow (and Sell) Test Tube Meat
In five to 10 years, supermarkets might have some new products in the meat counter: packs of vat-grown meat that are cheaper to produce than livestock and have less impact on the environment.
According to a new economic analysis presented at this week’s In Vitro Meat Symposium in Ås, Norway, meat grown in giant tanks known as bioreactors would cost between $5,200-$5,500 a ton (3,300 to 3,500 euros), which the analysis claims is cost competitive with European beef prices.
With a rising global middle class projected by the UN to double meat consumption by 2050, and livestock already responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gases, the symposium is drawing a variety of scientists, environmentalists and food industry experts.
“We’re looking to see if there are other technologies which can produce food for all the people on the planet,” said Anthony Bennett of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. “Not only today but over the next 10, 20, 30 years.”
Give one to the “Turtle Man”… He got a perdy mouth.
How long before that thing becomes alive?
Oh, and how about not eating so much meat?
Eating a lot of meat is what has led to our evolution for millions of years. It has been less than ten thousand years since we “industrialized” plant production to replace our normal diet. And now, yet another fake food resource to make us even less human. No thanks,…
Well, now vegetarians won’t have an excuse to not eat meat.
Kind of reminds me of the replicated meat they had on STNG.
Most people aren’t aware that this initiative is being sponsored by the real estate industry. Calculations are that their investment will be paid back on the first round of commissions realized from competition for property stemming from the doubling of Earth’s population every 10 years.
RBG
Back in the 80’s I heard of a research guy who was trying to figure out how to ‘grow’ tomato soup in a vat, skipping the actual tomato stage. I never heard anything about it since, but if one could do such a thing and come up with a product that was close to the ‘real’ item, it would be quite a breakthrough if it worked… (I-know-I-know probably a matter of taste if it turned out to be like a lot of artificially processed foods nowadays).
But I related this story to some vegan acquaintances to say hey, with this maybe someday they won’t have to kill animals anymore. They were quite scornful of it anyway, implying it was typical of the agribusiness greed tyranny of the modern world.
Perhaps, but it seemed to me that they are also leaning towards a kind of conservative anti-technology politics…one that just can’t cope with it all and would have us just go back to living in grass huts and eating it, too.
“I didn’t make it all the way to the top of the food chain just to become a vegetarian.”
– T-shirt
I’m all for it.
Meat with all the meaty goodness but less time to wait for an animal to mature.
We can mix it up so if we want good fats like omega 3 in a well marbled (and you can assure every single time well marbled) ribeye.
You want lemon pepper chicken? Why not form it with the meat and not try and inject it or slop it on.
Meat that resists e-coli, salmonella or trichinosis? Oh hell yeah! Think of getting eggs without that? Welcome back sunnyside up!
And more meat with less impact? Oh its a no-brainer.
Anyone against this is either a luddite or has no clue of what it means.
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Somehow, this doesn’t sound too appetizing.
“Dick’s Deli – Stuff yourself with our sausage.” Har!
Soylent Green.
Cursor, it’s nice to see know that there are still people (like you) who haven’t lost their childish trust in all things corporate. It’s so much easier to just accept any bullshit, than to question.
In the news this week, the maker of the inhalant version of insulin had to pull it because it caused cancer in almost everyone who used it.
What I need is a steak printer.
Stu it is good to see there are still people like you that automaticlly assumes that everyone is out to get you.
I look forward to this.
Stu, funny moniker to be plugging the disadvatages of easier to acquire meat, it is strange that so much comes from corporations that you are against them that much.
Why in fact I’ll bet your car came from one.
You job is either working for, supplied by or serving one.
Bet you’re friends also work or have some ‘collusion’ with corporations.
Even went to a retail chain store? Corporation.
Buy your food from you local farmers only? I doubt it.
I’ll even bet that computer that you wrote your drivel on is mande by a corporation and uses a corporation’s OS and a corporation’s browser.
Unless you are like Ghandi and spin your own clothes, I’ll bet you are in corporation made bvds as well.
Please. Until you can prove you made everything you own out of your own processed materials You are just as much dependent on corporations as the rest of us. But send us a picture of your corn cob carved computer and I’m sure I will retract everything and call you a GOD.
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How about:
Give you less, COSTS less, and CHARGE you more for Less taste??
I KNOW real pepperoni, and whats on my PIZZA, ISNT.
I think this product has been on the market for years===canned Vienna Sausage?
Can’t call it meat. The only way I find it edible is as a filler in cornbread. Then its quite tasty, or is it the cheese?