Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab

Re:Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab by cgh on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @08:06PM (#13881135)

It's not just less enjoyable, plant protein is flat-out inferior. The amino acid profile of meat is better (eg leucine) and meat contains creatine, which is essential for explosive athletic performance and which is completely unavailable from plants. It's why powerlifters and practically every other strength and power athlete eats meat.

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Re:Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab by marricks on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @08:11PM (#13881166)

Like this world record breaking vegan power lifter? http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=6137&catId=8

What about this vegan NFL player? https://redditblog.com/2016/06/24/300-pound-vegan-david-cart...

Bit more about myself since I think it's applicable: I'm no world class athlete, but I went vegetarian and started weight lifting a while back. Benched like 120 starting out. Now I'm vegan and can bench 200+ lbs, gained that muscle without eating animals.

Sure, there's some random ingredient that studies show only meat has and may help a little, but plenty of vegan athletes are starting to pop up and show there isn't some special thing in dead animals.

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Re:Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab by throwaway243546 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @11:25PM (#13882231)

Let's not forget the record holder and only male American weightlifter to qualify for the last olympics: http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/articles/why-ameri...

The common theme among vegan athletes is that recovery times improve substantially.

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Re:Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab by allworknoplay on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @08:15PM (#13881193)

There have been a bunch of vegetarian Mr. Universes, and plenty of vegetarians and vegans peppered liberally across every other pro sport. I'm not going to argue with you about the exact impact of meat vs plant protein on your body, but there's plenty of evidence that this isn't remotely a barrier to top performance.

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Re:Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab by lolwaaaat on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @08:13PM (#13881175)

This is just demonstrably false. There are millions of people who don't eat meat and have no protein problems. There are also plenty of vegan vegetarian athletes and strongmen. Please learn about them.

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Re:Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab by mrb on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @11:54PM (#13882358)

"completely unavailable from plants"

True but highly misleading. Even a vegan will have some amount of creatine because this molecule is produced by the liver and kidney.

Also the effects of creatine aren't that well studied: http://www.webmd.com/men/creatine

I don't know why I joined this discussion. I am neither vegan nor an athlete.

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