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if this was available in a store today I would prefer it over most offerings. Likely anti-biotic free, no added hormones, vastly reduced risk of contamination. It reduces the threat of swine flu and bird flu. Vastly better for the environment. No idea why anyone would have an issue with it besides the initial mental gymnastics of accepting where it comes from.

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If most people saw how their meat was processed then I think they’d be converted to lab grown meat (or turned vegan).

How is raw meat processed?

Don't want to speak for OP but they could be talking about the way animals are actually killed for meat. It's pretty barbaric. I eat a lot of meat and do some mental partitioning to just not think about it. Would be all about having a real alternative that provides all of the the nutrition with none of the death and torture.

Note: Personally I don't see veganism as an alternative for myself but I fully support those that choose it.

There are a lot of studies that need to be done to show it has the same nutritional value as real meat.

The food industry has managed to completely obliterate the nutritional value of bread so I'm not going to just trust some lab grown meat will be fine.

> No idea why anyone would have an issue with it besides the initial mental gymnastics of accepting where it comes from.

People are fine with the way things are. If it's not broken don't fix it.

To be fair though, it is very broken. we get new virus strains every year due to mass poultry and pork farming. Mad cow was not super fun. Mass meat farms are a large driver in climate change. Not to mention the ethical issues in killing millions of animals a year if there is an alternative not too.

The alternative not too also means millions of those animals just won't exist. There will be no reason to have most of the farm animals we have.

sure, but they were going to be killed anyway. We just wont force / allow them to have kids and the problem will be resolved. Its a one time kill of animals that were going to be killed anyway. Cycle stops there.

What cycle? You have a subjective opinion that it's better not to exist at all than to exist and be killed (which happens to everything on this planet).

There are plenty of farm animals that live good lives.

People need to drop this weird utopian idea that we can live in this world without death.

I won't be touching lab grown meat until they can prove it has the same nutritional value as meat from an actual animal. I have my doubts since it won't be actual absorbing anything from the food it eats out of the ground like a real animal. I have absolutely zero problem with animal death if they're not treated inhumanely during their lives. Nature provides a far worse death for many of them than what they get being raised on a farm.

Is there any information about the economic viability of lab grown meat? I can't imagine it's cheap to supply whatever nutrients they're using.

Resource usage: https://agronomics.im/benefits-of-clean-meat/

> Likely anti-biotic free

I wonder how they solved that problem, because traditionally lab grown meat has had to be full of antibiotics, since there is no immune system.

They grow in a sterile environment

I'm sure all lab meat experiments have been done in a sterile environment, anything else would just be silly. But no sterile environment remains sterile for very long, hence the use of antibiotics. What I'm wondering is what other technique there is to maintain the sterile environment they've come up with that doesn't kill the desired tissue.

You know, solving the classic Trumpian lung disinfection problem.

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