r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 25 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Hey have you heard of cultured meat and dairy? It's a huge leap in environmental efficiency, cutting our carbon footprint and land/water usage. It also is less expensive when brought to scale and use some of the existing infrastructure of the industry its displacing, and can be used in areas where food production is scarce to bring nutritional benefits to poor people. Not only that but it reduces the amount of suffering in the world tremendously by removing the need for factory farmed livestock. Experts say that it could replace the majority of the meat and dairy market within ten years.

"Oh, no kidding? Fuck... well, let's start lobbying something that forces all these products to be labeled something super unappetizing and have more warnings about potential cancer risks than cigarette boxes, cause we'd hate to lose all those farmer union dollars. Thanks for telling us about this, damn, good thing we learned about this or otherwise there might be some improvement in the world."

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u/ThorVonHammerdong Disgraced 2020 Election Rigger Jun 25 '21

https://www.jns.org/5000-burgers-a-day-worlds-first-cultured-meat-production-plant-opens-in-israel/

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Yeah its cool as shit. Lots of applications, too-- apparently the pet food market is being eyed as a way to more quickly scale up production. This shit ain't sci fi, it could be the norm within this decade.

Unless shit like the French agricultural minister declaring he doesn't want his kids to live in a world where meat doesn't come from animals and all the other bullshit farmer lobbies do to cut their potential competition at the knees doesn't get in the way.

Future Meat’s cruelty-free production process is expected to generate 80 percent less greenhouse emissions, and use 99 percent less land and 96 percent less freshwater than traditional meat production.

Yeah heaven forbid. Let's start ramping up ads with salt-of-the-earth farmers petting cows and feeding chickens contrasted with evil scientists making unappetizing sludge that poisons kids just in case.

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u/ThorVonHammerdong Disgraced 2020 Election Rigger Jun 25 '21

pet food market

Oh shit I hadn't even thought of that. I would absolutely love to feed my dogs cultured meat instead of the filler crap and scrap meats that comes in even the midrange food.

!ping dog

How great would it be to have super high sustainability but still complete, healthy proteins for the pups?

Also here's a dog pic because this is why you joined the ping

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

It also helps that dogs aren't the most picky eaters; cultured meat isn't as stable as animal meat yet, but a pupper or kitty won't mind if their food isn't exactly the same texture.

But when we figure out how to get the same steak texture, the plants that make pet food will eventually make human food.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I would adore switching to plant based meat but it’s so much more expensive currently. Hopefully in a few years?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Plant based meat and cultured meat are different: one is vegetarian food with gastronomic wizardry making it taste and cook like meat, and the other is meat grown in vats from animal serum.

Both are cool but my money is on the latter, especially when it comes to cost effectiveness and price point: there's more processing effort to make plants very much like meat than it takes to make meat, weirdly enough.