Getting lab-grown meat — and milk — to the table

[Peter1469]

The major Israeli corporation working on this is owned by a vegan. From what I understand texture is the holdup. So far it tastes like mush. I would think milk would be the easiest to make.

It certainly would be beneficial for space travel and colonies/space stations.

Getting lab-grown meat — and milk — to the table

Diners at the swanky Atelier Crenn restaurant in San Francisco expect to be served something unusual. After all, the venue boasts three Michelin stars and is widely considered to be one of the world’s top restaurants.

But if all goes according to plan, there will soon be a new dish on the menu that truly is remarkable: chicken that was never part of a living bird.


That peculiar piece of meat — likely to be the first of its kind ever sold in the US — comes from a radical sort of food technology now in development, in which meat is produced by culturing muscle cells in vast tanks of nutrients. A similar effort — to culture mammary cells — is also underway and may soon yield real milk without cows.


The company behind Crenn’s chicken, California-based Upside Foods, got a thumbs-up in November 2022 from the US Food and Drug Administration, which said it had no concerns about the safety of the technology. (The company’s manufacturing facility still requires a certificate of inspection from the US Department of Agriculture.)


This cellular agriculture, as some of its proponents call it, faces formidable technical obstacles before it can ever be more than a curiosity. But if it does reach the mainstream, it offers the prospect of a cruelty-free source of meat and dairy — potentially with a smaller environmental footprint than conventional animal products.


Conceptually, cellular agriculture is straightforward. Technicians take a small tissue sample from a chicken, cow or other animal. From that, they isolate individual cells that go into a bioreactor — basically a big vat of nutrient solution — where the cells multiply manyfold and, eventually, mature into muscle, fat or connective tissue that can be harvested for people to eat.


Products in which these cells are jumbled together, as in ground meat, are easiest to make, and that’s what most cellular meat companies are developing, at least initially. But Upside has a more ambitious goal: to create chicken with whole muscle fibers. “We’ve figured out ways to produce that textural experience,” says Eric Schulze, Upside’s vice president of product and regulation. He declines to explain exactly how they do it.

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“There are certainly immense challenges — no one’s denying that,” says Schulze. “But our plan is to work on that as an industry. It’s effectively a space race for food. The difference here is we will attempt to rationally solve these challenges one by one in a reasonable time frame — and do it safely, of course, since it’s food.”

[carolina73]

So for the last decade the push has been away from processed food and all organic.

Now the push is don't eat natural. Eat all these processed foods filled with preservatives.

Go ahead liberals. Poison yourselves like good pawns.

[Peter1469]

So for the last decade the push has been away from processed food and all organic.

Now the push is don't eat natural. Eat all these processed foods filled with preservatives.

Go ahead liberals. Poison yourselves like good pawns.

It is funny that much of vegetarian and vegan fair is highly processed.

[RMNIXON]

So for the last decade the push has been away from processed food and all organic.

Now the push is don't eat natural. Eat all these processed foods filled with preservatives.

Go ahead liberals. Poison yourselves like good pawns.

The fanaticism is not about health and diet. It is about progressive vegan activism that wants human consumption of animal products eliminated over time.

[RMNIXON]

It is funny that much of vegetarian and vegan fair is highly processed.

If not it would go rotten rather quickly. They would rather you did not know that......

[Ethereal]

Slave food.

[LescoBrandon]

From the same type people that grew COVID in the lab for a living

[Mister D]

It is funny that much of vegetarian and vegan fair is highly processed.

That's because it's a miserable diet that isn't suitable for human beings. Historically, it was almost always the result of poverty and scarcity.

[Peter1469]

If not it would go rotten rather quickly. They would rather you did not know that......

Well that is true. But that doesn't mean it is good for you.

[Peter1469]

That's because it's a miserable diet that isn't suitable for human beings. Historically, it was almost always the result of poverty and scarcity.

Yes, I posted a photo in Non Political Pics that said something along those lines. The vegetarians were the tribal members who couldn't hunt. lol