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You'll know because it'll be 10x the price.

know your local butcher

I hope so as well. Consumers deserve transparency.

me too, who knows what sort of chemical baths and other elements this material passes through to get to its final state and how much of that adulterates the end product. It sure ain't pristine organic regenerative grass fields etc with creatures output from it which our bodies have long adapted the consumption of.

as long as the end-to-end manufacture of the cells is done in a sterile environment...

the lab-grown stuff will actually be _cleaner_ than anything made 'organically'

cells don't poop (the same way), and aren't exposed to pathogens in a lab

Cells absolutely produce waste. That's why animals have things like kidneys and livers.

Animals also have immune systems to survive mild infections. Cells grown in a lab are much more prone to any form of contamination at all.

It's possible to deal with both things in a lab, but not inexpensively.