Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat

Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by mchusma on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:43PM (#28622272)

I think this article is more clickbaity than it should be. From a physics perspective, of course you should be able to grow meat, because we do it now with a bunch of other unnecessary things like thoughts, nerves, behaviors, etc. There is no reason in principle that it cannot be done.

But it's a lot of work, which everyone agrees.

I personally think a blend of lab grown and veggie (Impossible/Beyond) will be the first "killer app": tastes better and costs less than traditional meat for most applications.

IMO impossible is close now for some cases, cost is probably the main issue with some extra flavor that I think may need to be synthesized.

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by dqv on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:34AM (#28625244)

> I personally think a blend of lab grown and veggie (Impossible/Beyond) will be the first "killer app": tastes better and costs less than traditional meat for most applications.

Well we have seitan which, when prepared, can get very close to a meat-like texture. So I think it will be some lab grown meat and gluten abomination.

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