Perhaps, another question you like answered is when you are going to start seeing cultured meat on the store shelves.
And what problem is it trying to address, anyway?
Cultured meat is supposed to be an alternative to traditional meat that has a high carbon footprint, which contributes to climate change. (Is climate change real?)
And one of the reasons why cultured meat isn’t hitting the market at scale (yet) is this:
Cell culture facilities are resource-intensive—and critics argue that, if powered by fossil fuels, their environmental footprint could be even worse than that of traditional meat.
Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.
Apparently, there are a lot of things that need to converge to make way for cultured meat in the future.
From Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.:
But the truth is this: For cultured meat to move the needle on climate, a sequence of as-yet-unforeseen breakthroughs will still be necessary. We’ll need to train cells to behave in ways that no cells have behaved before. We’ll need to engineer bioreactors that defy widely accepted principles of chemistry and physics. We’ll need to build an entirely new nutrient supply chain using sustainable agricultural practices, inventing forms of bulk amino acid production that are cheap, precise, and safe. Investors will need to care less about money. Germs will have to more or less behave. It will be work worthy of many Nobel prizes—certainly for science, possibly for peace. And this expensive, fragile, infinitely complex puzzle will need to come together in the next 10 years.
On the other hand, none of that could happen.
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