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Cultivated meat is coming to the US. Whether it’ll clean up emissions from food is complicated.

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[–] tallwookie 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll try it.

if it tastes the same, cooks the same, and costs no more than real meat, I'll buy it a 2nd time.

too many "alternatives" lack the same taste, or have 45+ ingredients, or don't brown in the pan the way that real meat does, or are 4x the price.

for vat-grown meat to have any appeal to and adoption by the masses it has to be identical to the real thing, in looks, in price, and in taste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily. In the unlikely scenario it was tastier, it could even fetch a better price despite not being the same. In some circumstances (really stringy old meat from a stressed animal) this is not so unlikely, actually. There is plenty of 'real meat' I have no desire to touch twice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm hopeful that this turns out well, and have less impact on the environment like they mentioned.

I wish they delved more into what the differences were between the "pharmaceutical grade" and non-pharmaceutical grade versions of meat.

Either way, I worry that it'll probably be a bit more expensive, just like the current meat alternatives.

At the moment, Beyond meat is the best meat substitute I've eaten so far.

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[–] DevCat 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have ever watched a documentary on slaughterhouse conditions and the handling of meat, you'll probably run for any meat grown under clean laboratory conditions.

[–] 200ok 4 points 1 year ago

Also, most "wild" fish is riddled with worms and legal to sell. Well, there is a "worms per pound" limit in many countries.

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