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The Potential of Lab-Grown Meat: Tasty, Cheap, and Environmentally Friendly
TLDR Lab-grown meat, also known as in vitro or cultured meat, has the potential to be a viable solution for those who want to eat meat but have reasons not to, or to help solve the impending hunger crisis. While currently expensive and complex to produce, lab-grown meat could offer health advantages, be more environmentally friendly, and satisfy the increasing demand for meat due to rising incomes around the world.
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Lab-grown meat, also known as in vitro or cultured meat, has made progress since 2012 but still has a long way to go before it becomes widely available.
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Modern Meadows is a company aiming to make lab-grown meat tasty and cheap enough to be a viable solution for those who want to eat meat but have reasons not to, or to help solve the impending hunger crisis.
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A guy named Morris Benjaminson grew goldfish muscle in a vat of nutrient-rich fetal bovine serum, resulting in 14% more mass, but when he tried to cook and eat it, no one wanted to try it.
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In 2008, a study in Norway found that lab-grown meat could potentially be manufactured for $5,000 a ton, making it economically competitive with real meat.
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Researchers are using cow stem cells to create lab-grown meat, which initially looks like calamari and tastes bland because it lacks essential ingredients such as blood and fat, but companies are working on improving the taste and texture to make it commercially viable.
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Lab-grown meat is currently expensive and complex to produce, but it has the potential to be more environmentally friendly and energy efficient than traditional meat production methods.
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Lab-grown meat has the potential to help satisfy the increasing demand for meat due to rising incomes around the world, as traditional meat production methods are limited by available land and would result in higher prices, and lab-grown meat could also offer health advantages such as controlled fat content.
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Lab-grown meat has the potential to help satisfy the increasing demand for meat due to rising incomes around the world, as traditional meat production methods are limited by available land and would result in higher prices, and lab-grown meat could also offer health advantages such as controlled fat content.
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