• save_vs_death [they/them]
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    8 months ago

    banning it is doubly stupid in the face of it not being mass producible to begin with, check the literature, the bioreactors keep self-infecting; the only people pushing these are weird venture capitalists that are down bad on this investment, just eat some gosh darned beans, smh

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      8 months ago

      The fact that today's semiconductor industry exists is proof enough that you shouldn't discount cultured meat ever becoming feasible. People are definitely getting ahead of themselves timescale-wise though.

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      8 months ago

      banning it is doubly stupid in the face of it not being mass producible to begin with, check the literature

      I’ll be completely honest and say I have never read any of the literature, but having said that there are clearly agricultural interests involved trying to kill it in its crib, why wouldn’t they make fake propaganda about it? Big oil kept climate change off peoples lips for generations.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        The fact that they're preemptively banning it makes me feel that it's impressive enough to be nervous

        • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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          8 months ago

          Yup. Before this I’ll be honest and say I took everyone here at their word that it was not feasible even without looking into it myself, but this bill made me think “wait a minute”.

            • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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              8 months ago

              It does feel like it's more a culture war nonce thing, given that the ban is happening in Florida - a state that doesn't even produce oranges any more.

    • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Yeah I'm extremely skeptical that it will ever be scalable, maybe I'm wrong. One of the reasons is that you need pharmaceutical grade bioreactors, completely clean. When animals get disease they have an immune system to fight it. In a bioreactor, if they get contaminated, instead of a animal cell culture you'll just get a bacteria cell culture, because they reproduce so much faster.

      Where I think there's some optimism is for precision fermentation to produce some types of animal products like milk, egg whites, cheese

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        Easily producible cheese products that don't require the horror show of modern milk production would be pretty awesome

      • kristina [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        Apparently China has had very good luck with pig skins for noodles

  • buh [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    libertarians torn between eliminating the threat of soy and letting government dictate what can be produced

      • buh [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        Doesn’t matter, to chuds it’s all soy the same way everyone to the left of George Bush is a communist