cultivated meat

Kevin Stenberg

Kevin Stenberg

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My wife just showed me a Facebook article that said that cultivated chicken can be sold to the American public. Can someone explant in laymans terms what cultivated chicken is? I googled it and there was an explanation but I still can't understand what it is.
 
Gary

Gary

SE Kansas
Kevin; remember back in Biology Class when you had to "grow", culture a Bacteria or Yeast in a Petri Dish? Kinda similar with this "synthetic" Chicken. What could possibly go wrong!
 
Rick

Rick

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Meat, a company that grows chicken and other meat from animal cells without slaughtering animals, has cleared a significant Food and Drug Administration safety hurdle. The clearance brings the company one step closer to selling its products in the U.S.

The process of creating cultured meat starts with a cell. In this case, from a chicken. It can be taken either from a live bird through a biopsy, a fresh piece of meat, a cell bank or the root of a feather. That cell is then fed nutrients like those found in soy and corn before being left to mature in a large-scale steel vessel.

Sure am glad I was born when I was. This company is in California.
 
KeithB

KeithB

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Not sure I could tell cultured meat from regular meat in sausage and meat loaf. I think the plant based Whopper tastes an awful lot like the real thing. They're getting better all the time about making alternative proteins.
 
KeithB

KeithB

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They grow insulin in a vat nowadays instead of extracting it from animals as was formerly the practice. Don't see why growing meat cells in a vat is much different. Probably using some of the same techniques that are used to grow human cells for medical purposes.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

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It strikes me as extremely odd that in era where the big thing is "fresh", "natural", "hormone free", "pasture raised", etc. that anyone would want something entirely unnatural, fresh, hormone free, etc. The plant based Whopper is a fine example- you take plant based material and add who knows what additives to it to make it taste and feel like some sort of actual meat product when you bite into it. It makes no sense to me that people can somehow claim it's "healthier". You don't know what it is, what's taken out of it or added to it. It may be lower in cholesterol or something, but how do you know? You trust Burger King to be 100% honest with you? Come on!!!

Meat comes from animals.
 
KeithB

KeithB

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Space travel, that’s certainly one possibility. Conventional farming methods would be very impractical in any space ship smaller than a planet!
 
KeithB

KeithB

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Humans are omnivores, capable of eating and adapting to an almost infinite variety of foods. It's nice to have the luxury of choice in the source of those foods.
 
KeithB

KeithB

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I will when it hits the store shelves. If the folks that make the stuff do it right I doubt I could tell the difference between ground beef from a real cow and the ground beef they would cultivate in a vat, especially if I made chili or meatloaf out of it.

I trust Burger King to be as truthful as the farming/meat processing industry. Does anybody test meat for trace elements and mineral content or just for things such as e. coli and other pathogens? And how many times has that system broken down?

I'm pretty sure that at least the first few cultivated meat processors are going to be under a lot of close scrutiny. My mother worked for the USDA and got to tour various meat packing facilities. It didn't take her long to turn mostly vegetarian. Her stories were enlightening.

Choice is nice!
 
KeithB

KeithB

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Local Chinese takeout place has General Tso's tofu, it's pretty good, especially when you don't have any teeth and can't chew beef, pork, or chicken. They make some other dishes with tofu that are pretty tasty.

Not going to get into the politics of the efficacy of the covid vaccine, just glad I've gotten three of them. I get my statistics on things such as that from reputable sources.
 
Rick H

Rick H

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KeithB said:
I doubt I could tell the difference between ground beef from a real cow and the ground beef they would cultivate in a vat,
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I hope they do a better job of it than they did with turkey bacon. That stuff is just awful. They seem to be able to spice up turkey sausage well enough to be passable but every type of turkey bacon has been horrible.
 
KeithB

KeithB

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Rick H said:
I hope they do a better job of it than they did with turkey bacon. That stuff is just awful. They seem to be able to spice up turkey sausage well enough to be passable but every type of turkey bacon has been horrible.
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Couldn't agree more. I like turkey a lot of ways but none of them involve making it into a different species. I do like ground/chopped turkey in soups, turkey salad, etc. but it's never designed as a way to make it seem like some other meat. Turkey tastes fine as turkey!
 
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