Lab-Grown Meat: Investors Love It, But Scientists Question Safety

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06/27/22


Lab-Grown Meat: Investors Love It, But Scientists Question Safety

Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson, Hollywood actors, venture capitalists — they’re all pushing lab-grown meat as the solution to world hunger and environmental sustainability, but scientists last week told a panel of experts they have serious concerns about the product’s safety.

By
Martha Rosenberg
 
Lab-grown meat — also referred to as cell-cultured, cell-based, cultivated, lab-grown and in vitro meat — is produced by taking biopsied cells from a living animal and using them to grow meat in a laboratory.

According to the Center for Food Safety (CFS), at least 70 companies are working on cell-cultured meat, but so far Singapore is the only country where the product is sold.

The CFS last week assembled a panel of experts for a webinar to address the many questions surrounding lab-grown meat, especially its safety and how the products will be regulated.

Panelist Michael Hansen, Ph.D., senior staff scientist with Consumer Reports, questioned the safety of lab-grown meat.

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[Smokin Joe]

Could be a prion factory...and, unlike cattle, lab "meat" won't fall over sick and let you know something is wrong with it.

If it can't, at some point, run around on its own, it isn't meat.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The same scientists that brought us Covid-19/SARS2, Killer Bees, and Olestra?

[roamer_1]

Could be a prion factory...and, unlike cattle, lab "meat" won't fall over sick and let you know something is wrong with it.

If it can't, at some point, run around on its own, it isn't meat.

That's right... Don't matter  the how or  why... it's just... wrong. Hella wrong.

[Cyber Liberty]

Could be a prion factory...and, unlike cattle, lab "meat" won't fall over sick and let you know something is wrong with it.

If it can't, at some point, run around on its own, it isn't meat.

Is Mad Cow Disease the result of prions?

[Cyber Liberty]

That's right... Don't matter  the how or  why... it's just... wrong. Hella wrong.

I wonder if this is even practical?  Will it be another "Beyond Meat" that tastes like crap that no rational carnivore can eat?  Seems to me all they could really get from this is "pink goop."

[roamer_1]

I wonder if this is even practical?  Will it be another "Beyond Meat" that tastes like crap that no rational carnivore can eat?  Seems to me all they could really get from this is "pink goop."

Beats me... It will never enter my body. No need. It's already sh*t.

Here's the real thing... Range fed meat is adapted though uncountable variables, from the vagaries of weather, to how often they run from predators to the widely varied things they consume...

The reason wild game and range fed livestock is worlds better than feed lot raised is because of all those uncountable variables encountered in the wild. How much less the meat evolved in a petri dish?

God makes meat. And he's the best at it. Leave it alone.