Yuyarl@sh.itjust.works to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 4 days agoMeat rule, neat rulesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square153fedilinkarrow-up1665arrow-down18
arrow-up1657arrow-down1imageMeat rule, neat rulesh.itjust.worksYuyarl@sh.itjust.works to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square153fedilink
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·3 days agoThe tricky part of lab grown meat is you need to keep it from being infected. Keep the factory perfectly sterile. Any time a vat is colonised by fungi or bacteria or a virus its contents would have to be dumped and the equipment sterilised That’s going to be expensive. It will need feedstock. It will produce waste CO2 Meanwhile a cow has an immune system and eats low quality grass. Lab meat will not be able to compete with field grown meat
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI’ll bet dimes to dollars that it’s not that hard to turn grass into labmeat-consumable nutrients. Cows use bacteria to digest grass, anyway, and enzymes are usually pretty easy to make in a lab, too.
The tricky part of lab grown meat is you need to keep it from being infected.
Keep the factory perfectly sterile.
Any time a vat is colonised by fungi or bacteria or a virus its contents would have to be dumped and the equipment sterilised
That’s going to be expensive.
It will need feedstock. It will produce waste CO2
Meanwhile a cow has an immune system and eats low quality grass.
Lab meat will not be able to compete with field grown meat
I’ll bet dimes to dollars that it’s not that hard to turn grass into labmeat-consumable nutrients. Cows use bacteria to digest grass, anyway, and enzymes are usually pretty easy to make in a lab, too.