• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    What ever happened to synthetic meat? There was a lot of chatter about it years ago, and then it faded into obscurity. We desperately need it right now…

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      1 year ago

      Culture meat is still in the works. In the meantime, we should be looking at the wide variety of plant-based foods out there because if we only wait, harm will continue to be done

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          1 year ago

          From what I understand, yes it’s in scaling and getting the cost down. It’s not that it is not technically possible, it’s that it’s hard to do at scale and at a low cost

          While not quite culture meat, there is one thing that’s pretty cool that’s already here: precision fermentation. Essentially you can get biologically identical proteins from it so there’s stuff like non-animal whey ice creams you can get right now