You definitely do you… as an omnivore I look forward to a more ethical way to eat my diet. Vegans have some good points, and I hope seeing society move toward ethical meat gives them hope the world is getting better.
it's more ethical in the way that pulling the lever on the trolley is ethical. Feel free to blow up the entirety of animal agriculture instead, I'd do some jury nullification.
They can't reproduce fetal bovine serum. It's a byproduct of the cow killing industry, so every lab-grown meat product uses the processed blood of a real cow.
Not yet, but there's a few alternatives in the R&D pipeline. I'd think the economics of lab grown meat probably don't make sense until a decent substitute is found, because it's so expensive. A small bottle was like $500 when I was doing lab work.
FBS is the growing medium. The cell lines (the stuff that becomes meat) is reproduced, so very few cells need to be taken from animals. For growing chicken meat for example, the cells can be taken from their eggs, a live donor (well, chickens can't consent so I guess not a donor), or a corpse. Also, it turns out there are techniques that use alternative media, so idk give it a decade.
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You definitely do you… as an omnivore I look forward to a more ethical way to eat my diet. Vegans have some good points, and I hope seeing society move toward ethical meat gives them hope the world is getting better.
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it's more ethical in the way that pulling the lever on the trolley is ethical. Feel free to blow up the entirety of animal agriculture instead, I'd do some jury nullification.
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I didn't know that, that clarifies things for me thanks.
They can't reproduce fetal bovine serum. It's a byproduct of the cow killing industry, so every lab-grown meat product uses the processed blood of a real cow.
Not yet, but there's a few alternatives in the R&D pipeline. I'd think the economics of lab grown meat probably don't make sense until a decent substitute is found, because it's so expensive. A small bottle was like $500 when I was doing lab work.
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FBS is the growing medium. The cell lines (the stuff that becomes meat) is reproduced, so very few cells need to be taken from animals. For growing chicken meat for example, the cells can be taken from their eggs, a live donor (well, chickens can't consent so I guess not a donor), or a corpse. Also, it turns out there are techniques that use alternative media, so idk give it a decade.