A San Francisco Startup Is Serving Chicken That Was Made in a Lab

They apparently taste good.Arun Nevader — FilmMagic
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A San Francisco Startup Is Serving Chicken That Was Made in a Lab
Madeline Farber
10:45 AM Pacific
Wall Street Journalreports. But ahead of the release, the company invited a few lucky people to taste-test the chicken. Duck meat was also created in the lab, and was used in the taste-test as well.

According to theJournal, those who tried the chicken strip said they would eat it again, and said that both options tasted like the real thing.

The idea behind this "clean meat" is to revolutionize the $200 billionmeat industry, theJournalreports. Scientists, startups, and animal-welfare activists are all behind the idea, as the products could potentially replace the billions of cattle, hogs and chickens that are normally used. It is also a way to avoid the cost of grain, water, and waste disposal that comes with caring for livestock.

http://fortune.com/2017/03/15/memphis-meats-lab-grown-chicken-peta/

 

I've been to the burger tasting here, in the NYC. It's pretty darn close to the real thing, these companies have legs - once they reach some efficiency of production, I am pretty sure these products will be competitive with real meats.

 

Might be competitive and there be plenty of dumb people who will eat anything and twenty years later you might wish you never ate it. It is like when McDonalds started huge in the 1960s with trans fat, man the French fries were incredible and now they are grown with new kind of potato that tastes like crap and the new oils they use.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32983108/ns/business-us_business/t/mcdonalds-holy-grail-potato-farmers/

Now let's talk about McDonalds meat, you must want to die eating this crap.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/mcdonal...gers-chef-jamie-oliver-theyre-not-only-249387

 

Hope this catches on similar to the nut milks replacing cow milk.

I for one would love to see an end to human-kind's terrible obsession with the consumption of animal flesh.

There will be energy/resource benefits too. I remember seeing somewhere that about 40% of all agricultural products grown in the world are used as feed for meat producing animals.

 

I really hope this technology develops and becomes a lot cheaper soon - it could solve a lot of problems for a lot of people.

 

It could replace caring for animals?

 

One thing that scares me....
I'm all for Trump cutting regulations and trimming fat in various agencies... but I hope they leave the "food" part of the FDA in tact.
When I buy groceries like vegetables or meat, you have to just trust they don't have some kind of poisons/pesticides on them because the producers are being inspected. Naive I know. But what are ya gonna do aside from going full Amish? I think that is some of the few tax dollars that are actually well spent.
I'm afraid by the time Trumps done we'll be ingesting DDT because its cheaper and they can get away with it.

 

The concept of the FDA is a lot better than the efficacy of the FDA.

 

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

― Milton Friedman

 

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