Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming, Whether You Like It or Not

I'm really hopeful for this and things like beyond meat, anything that will reduce of the misery and suffering of the animals we eat.

This may help prod along the technology of artificial blood, since the use of real blood is one of the the most expensive and least ethical parts of this technology, which is still primitive.

However, if they do solve that problem, the medical implications should be obvious.

Great concept for the ever increasing food demand the United States has for beef and proteins. Not sure how it will stack up to totally transparent farm to fork proteins like Meat The Butchers offers. https://latechnews.org/meat-the-butchers/

I suspect that if I decided to adopt a utilitarian vegetarian stance i'd refocus my palette on vegetarian protein sources. I'm struggling to believe that the entire energy budget including the primary inputs is better than animals. The ethical budget might be better, but the CO2 burden of industrial processes to get serum and nutrients in feels wrong, compared to say a bioreactor doing Fusarium quorn.

Mind you, I'd like to try some. I love pate. To any veggies out there, if you haven't tried it, try 'tartex'