Chicken grown from animal cells. Yum or no way?

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Sassy Colombian said:
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This month an American company was approved to sell cultured meat in Singapore.
"The cultivated or no-kill meat contains all the protein and nutrients of real chicken without causing deforestation, food safety risks or animal welfare issues associated with livestock production" says Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick. "We shouldn't have to deal with all that to have a chicken dinner with our families. We can have real, high-quality meat without killing an animal, without tearing down a forest, without exacerbating climate change, without increasing the probability of another zoonotic disease.”

When I first thought of the idea of eating chicken grown in a lab, the thought of it didn't sound very appealing. But there is also nothing appealing about the animal cruelty that occurs regularly at many chicken farms, at least here in the US.

How do some of you feel about eating such meat? Do you think this way of producing meat could be a solution to some of the environmental issues currently caused by meat production? Or shoud we instead be focusing resources to transforming our animal farms to become more like working biodiversity ecosystems instead of finding solutions in a lab grown meat?

Some food for thought!

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Lab-Grown Chicken Meat Will Make Its Restaurant Debut This Saturday

Earlier this month, Good Meat Cultured Chicken was approved for sale in Singapore. Now, it’s heading to its first commercial restaurant.
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All chickens grow from cells, in fact everything that grows does.
 
Sassy Colombian said:
Totally agree, that's one of my main concerns too. Like organic food became a niche for those with money, I can see the same happening with this industry. Right now a chicken nuggets can cost $50. Totally absurd and not reliable to feed the masses but according to the people experimenting with this project cost will come down once major production is in place.
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bit of the chicken or the egg... going to need mass consumption to justify mass production .. but might need mass production to bring the price down to allow for mass consumption..

which will come first.
 
PaddyJames said:
Watch that Arnie doc "Game Changers"

You'll be surprised how easy it is to go off meat.
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I have stopped eating meat before for ethical reasons. However, I never seem to get enough protein from other sources and my iron dropped really low there for a bit. So now I invest on meat that has been raised ethically, try to do my best to purchase from local farms, and also try to eat several vegetarian dishes throughout the week but I wish I could go off meat completely. Although my husband my not like that at all ;)
 

Sassy Colombian said:
I have stopped eating meat before for ethical reasons. However, I never seem to get enough protein from other sources and my iron dropped really low there for a bit. So now I invest on meat that has been raised ethically, try to do my best to purchase from local farms, and also try to eat several vegetarian dishes throughout the week but I wish I could go off meat completely. Although my husband my not like that at all ;)
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You can talk to me xx
 

Baines' left foot said:
I am in favour of it and would happily try it. I’m interested to see how much it’d cost. If it was competitively priced then more people would be willing to give it a go.
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At the moment is really expensive but according to the people engineering it this project once it becomes mass produce the prices would go down to similar prices that are paid for chicken.
 

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