SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken

Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by drb91 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:01PM (#16055583)

Er, compared to what?

Animals may not be an energy efficient food, but they are the only way to get meat.

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by luisramalho on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:07PM (#16056228)

> Er, compared to what?

I meant compared to lab-grown meat, as most of the energy from food is not used for building muscles but rather for the brain.

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by chrisseaton on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @09:11PM (#16057724)

> I meant compared to lab-grown meat

How are you able to say this? Have you seen any data about how efficient lab-grown mean is to produce?

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by akgerber on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:22PM (#16055793)

Eating non-animal foods and producing meat (muscle) inside your body.

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by jriot on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:29PM (#16055883)

It is far more efficient to eat animals and produce muscle. There aren't many world renowned athletes who are vegan for obvious reasons.

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by mdarens on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:30PM (#16056456)

seeing as how veganism is not the default choice in most of the industrialized world, this is a misleading frame. it's also incorrect that it's more efficient to "eat animals" to produce muscle if we're being pedantic (as a vegetarian, however, this is not a meaningless distinction to me)— amino acids in dairy & eggs have a measurably higher bioavailability than those in meat, whether ranked by the PDCAAS or DIAAS https://web.archive.org/web/20151010170125/http://www.idf-is....

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by rsynnott on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:43PM (#16056015)

I assume they mean efficiency as in land area used etc. You have to put quite a lot of calories into a cow to get one calorie out.

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by jriot on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:01PM (#16056180)

https://qz.com/749443/being-vegan-isnt-as-environmentally-fr...

Being vegan is that efficient either.

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by tgb on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:18PM (#16056341)

That's a poor summary of the article you link, given that it says vegan diets are almost twice as efficient as the standard American diet. (It just also says that low-meat diets are even more efficient in terms of land use.)

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by marcc on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:37PM (#16055961)

Will you elaborate on the obvious reasons? Pretend they aren't obvious to me.

I'm interested in reading more about athletic advantages gained from consuming meat. Is there a reason that other sources of protein aren't giving the same benefit?

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by jriot on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:54PM (#16056103)

Here is a good article breaking it all down along with the amounts you would need to eat to get the same benefit.

https://www.muscleforlife.com/animal-protein-vs-plant-protei...

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by gruez on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:57PM (#16056138)

efficiency in that context means from a global of view, not how much time you're spending eating.

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by xexers on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:34PM (#16055938)

Compared to just eating the grains ourselves.

For cattle, it takes 100 calories of grains to produce 10 calories of beef.

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by emusan on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:42PM (#16056001)

I think it's important to point out though that cattle can digest and "convert" a significantly wider variety of plant sources into meat. Our bodies simply can't digest a lot of what they can.

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by xexers on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @08:15PM (#16057501)

Sure... but it's also important to point out that while cattle "should" eat grass and can eat silage... 78% of beef in America comes from feedlot cattle[1]. On feedlots, the cattle are fed grains, not grass/silage... grains that we humans can easily eat like soy, corn, and barley [2].

1. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nil-zacharias/its-time-to-end...

2. http://www.goodfoodworld.com/2012/01/grass-fed-vs-feedlot-be...

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by jjeaff on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:20AM (#16059859)

None of those cows are raised on feedlots. Feedlots are used to fatten and "finish" the beef.

Most all cattle start their life being grass fed.

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