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I'm far more interested in cultured/clean meat grown from real cells.

I am interested in both, but we're still a bit away from cultured meat. We are closer than I expected we would be in 2021, though. See this press release from this week: https://www.perishablenews.com/meatpoultry/future-meat-techn...

That said, I think there is room for both. In the hamburger/chicken nugget space, I think plant based is going to keep beating cultured for the next decade - if cultured wins, it needs to figure out fat (afaik it still hasn't.)

Same. I'm highly sceptical of plant-based meat substitutes from a health perspective. There's so much we don't know about micronutrients, bioavailability, and the human body, I don't believe that these highly processed alternatives are fully known to be healthy replacements for real meat, even if they tick the macronutrient boxes of sufficient protein and B-complex. It strikes me as something akin to a tasty multivitamin at best.

We're already so far removed from the way out ancestors ate meat (various organs, connective tissue) and this is yet another step away from that.

Cultured meat seems to be a way to get the real thing without the negative side effects of environment damage and animal cruelty.

Are there any commercial products and has anyone tried it? I do recall some video somewhere of a US restaurant and people said it was reasonable but that could have been plant based.

I tried the impossible burger at Burger King. I could not tell a difference personally from any typical fast food burger. Would buy it again to satisfy a craving.

That's not cultured meat. It's plant-protein based.

See my response to another poster.

The Impossible burger is not cultured meat, it’s a plant-based product. OP is referring to this https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-...

Ah I misread his wording. I thought he was just asking for someone's opinion on restaurants that had served any meat alternative product, not specifically lab grown meat.

Impossible burger is still created from plants. "Clean" or lab grown meat isn't commercially available anywhere, it only exists is some labs AFAIK. It's sadly very expensive to make today.

There are a few startups working on this, Mosa meat and meatable are some examples.

The company behind Just Egg is vat-growing cultured chicken. It is limited to Singapore for now. See https://goodmeat.co/

I'm intrigued and want to read more about this, but that site is crazy. Takes >10 seconds on my phone to load the 'experience' which is a long-form scrolljacking narrative that starts with the history of the chicken.

Their FAQ page is really interesting, but I can't find a way to link directly to it.

40 MB of transfer for an FAQ. wonderful.

But yeah, it does look really cool and they say they are working with the FDA to bring it to the US.

Is any of this stuff anywhere near as nutritious as real beef?

I wonder what chronic diseases the next generations will have because of eating so much low-nutrition food.

it will never scale.

Never is a long time.

How about, not in our lifetime? Not until the Federal government stops subsidizing the industry.

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