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The Potential of Lab-Grown Meat: Affordable, Sustainable, and Healthy
TLDR Lab-grown meat, although currently expensive and missing essential ingredients, has the potential to become a viable solution to the impending hunger crisis. It could be manufactured at a competitive price, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and offer health advantages such as controlled fat content and easier control of pathogens.
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Lab-grown meat, also known as in vitro or cultured meat, has been a topic of interest since 2001, and in 2012, the first taste test of in vitro hamburger took place.
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Modern Meadows is a company aiming to make lab-grown meat tasty and affordable as a solution to the impending hunger crisis.
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A scientist grew goldfish muscle in a vat of nutrient-rich fetal bovine serum, resulting in a 14% increase in mass, but when he tried to cook and eat it, no one wanted to try it.
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Lab-grown meat could potentially be manufactured for $5,000 a ton, making it competitive with real meat on an economic basis.
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Lab-grown meat is currently missing essential ingredients like blood and fat, and is expensive to produce, with the first lab-grown hamburger costing around 350 grand.
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Lab-grown meat is seen as a niche industry, with the first products likely to be leather and flour, and it has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and water consumption compared to traditional meat production.
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Lab-grown meat has the potential to become more viable as the price of traditional meat rises, and it could have health advantages such as controlled fat content and easier control of pathogens.
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Lab-grown meat has the potential to become more viable as the price of traditional meat rises, and it could have health advantages such as controlled fat content and easier control of pathogens.
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