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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by Falling3 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:04PM (#11490638)
In-vitro meat is looking like a more viable option by the day. And it has the obvious moral ground.
Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by Ygg2 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:40PM (#11491503)
Forget moral high ground. It's energy efficient. You don't have to feed whole animal and then cut away stuff you don't like or can't eat. Just grow the thing you need.

Plus you only need a couple of animals for breeding/cell harvest.

Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by bsder on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:38PM (#11491489)
It also will have both a medical and commercial high ground.

If you don't have all of the nasty digestion bits of a bird, you lost a lot of the nasty disease bits.

If you only have the meat parts of the bird, you don't waste any growth resources on non-saleable parts of the bird.

Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by bitL on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:19PM (#11493676)
In vitro meat would be great. Yet you still need to introduce a small number of pathogens to improve your fitness (your body needs to fight small battles all the time to keep in the top shape). Sanitized stuff brings you allergy and other fun, like inability to adapt to changing environment.
Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by Natanael_L on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:51AM (#11495144)
Should be solvable by frequently swapping out the cell sources for the breeding, using fresh samples from live farm animals (tested for harmful pathogens first, of course).
Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by nommm-nommm on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:45PM (#11491544)
In-vitro meat has a huge environmental advantage as well.