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@bencurthoys @argv_minus_one @danirabbit
May I be the joyless bastard and weigh in about synthetic meat? I hope not to crash the party (also, I am several hours late, lol)... :QueerCat:
The problem I see with synthetic meat is about the food system we want.
Synthetic meat is an industrial product, requiring global supply chains, large-scale (sterile) facilities and a stratified and complex (and stratified) social and economic structure.
A part from making the life cycle assessment quite complex (because e.g. the quantification of the environmental impact of a production system depends mainly from where you draw the system boundaries, so it is very easy to leave out processes and obtain a nicer picture than in reality), hyper-technological systems are not resilient (remember when during covid there was a global shortage of lab gloves because *all* of them are produced in Malaysia? there are many components in a lab that are not easy to source in a crisis).On another note, it is also a question of organization. A food system based on small-scale, local and sustainable farms is in my eyes much preferable than megacorporations owning the food production chain. I am not sure that lab meat will be easy to grow in our basements like fungi or so...
Also, be aware that a lot of the lab meat bubble was because it seemed so attractive to investors. Technological, scalable solutions that seem even more sustainable than what we have actually. A very welcome investment opportunity and a good narrative for corporations that want to show that they will save the world (remember biofuels from algae?).
Don't get me wrong, I am not fundamentally against industry or technology, it's just that I think that it is a good idea to keep the influence of the corporate-industrial players out of the food system as much as possible.It is correct that lab meat is probably way more ethical than the current system of industrial agriculture with factory farms. But we also easily tend to overestimate the contribution of industrial farming to feed the world, and overlook the millions of smallscale farmers that provide a way greater part of the foodstuff actually consumed by humanity. @viacampesina_en has more information about this.
#Agroecology #LabMeat #SyntheticMeat #AgroecologicalTransition #Diet #SustainableDiet #FoodSystem #WeFeedTheWorld
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@bencurthoys @argv_minus_one @danirabbit
May I be the joyless bastard and weigh in about synthetic meat? I hope not to crash the party (also, I am several hours late, lol)... :QueerCat:
The problem I see with synthetic meat is about the food system we want.
Synthetic meat is an industrial product, requiring global supply chains, large-scale (sterile) facilities and a stratified and complex (and stratified) social and economic structure.
A part from making the life cycle assessment quite complex (because e.g. the quantification of the environmental impact of a production system depends mainly from where you draw the system boundaries, so it is very easy to leave out processes and obtain a nicer picture than in reality), hyper-technological systems are not resilient (remember when during covid there was a global shortage of lab gloves because *all* of them are produced in Malaysia? there are many components in a lab that are not easy to source in a crisis).On another note, it is also a question of organization. A food system based on small-scale, local and sustainable farms is in my eyes much preferable than megacorporations owning the food production chain. I am not sure that lab meat will be easy to grow in our basements like fungi or so...
Also, be aware that a lot of the lab meat bubble was because it seemed so attractive to investors. Technological, scalable solutions that seem even more sustainable than what we have actually. A very welcome investment opportunity and a good narrative for corporations that want to show that they will save the world (remember biofuels from algae?).
Don't get me wrong, I am not fundamentally against industry or technology, it's just that I think that it is a good idea to keep the influence of the corporate-industrial players out of the food system as much as possible.It is correct that lab meat is probably way more ethical than the current system of industrial agriculture with factory farms. But we also easily tend to overestimate the contribution of industrial farming to feed the world, and overlook the millions of smallscale farmers that provide a way greater part of the foodstuff actually consumed by humanity. @viacampesina_en has more information about this.
#Agroecology #LabMeat #SyntheticMeat #AgroecologicalTransition #Diet #SustainableDiet #FoodSystem #WeFeedTheWorld
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Oooh, a new use for my old brewing yeast, I could grow meat in the backyard 🤪
PHYS: "From pint to plate, scientists brew up a new way to grow meat... Yeast left over from brewing beer can be transformed into edible "scaffolds" for cultivated meat—sometimes known as lab-grown meat—which could offer a more sustainable, cost-effective alternative to current methods, according to a new study from UCL (University College London) researchers."
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-pint-plate-scientists-brew-meat.html
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"Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might."
"Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?"
I've had cricket snacks. They're not bad. If they could show good nutritional value, not missing any nutrients, I would definitely see if my cat would like it.
US pets consumer approx 25% of all animal derived calories in the country.
And it would be an easier path to adoption.
#MeatAlternatives #CleanMeat #PetFood #Crickets #Insects #Nutrition #ClimateChange #Pets #Cats #Dogs #Meatly #LabGrownMeat #LabMeat #NYTimes #GiftArticle
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"Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might."
"Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?"
I've had cricket snacks. They're not bad. If they could show good nutritional value, not missing any nutrients, I would definitely see if my cat would like it.
US pets consume approx 25% of all animal derived calories in the country.
And it would be an easier path to adoption.
#MeatAlternatives #CleanMeat #PetFood #Crickets #Insects #Nutrition #ClimateChange #Pets #Cats #Dogs #Meatly #LabGrownMeat #LabMeat #NYTimes #GiftArticle
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"Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might."
"Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?"
I've had cricket snacks. They're not bad. If they could show good nutritional value, not missing any nutrients, I would definitely see if my cat would like it.
US pets consumer approx 25% of all animal derived calories in the country.
And it would be an easier path to adoption.
#MeatAlternatives #CleanMeat #PetFood #Crickets #Insects #Nutrition #ClimateChange #Pets #Cats #Dogs #Meatly #LabGrownMeat #LabMeat #NYTimes #GiftArticle
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"Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might."
"Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?"
I've had cricket snacks. They're not bad. If they could show good nutritional value, not missing any nutrients, I would definitely see if my cat would like it.
US pets consume approx 25% of all animal derived calories in the country.
And it would be an easier path to adoption.
#MeatAlternatives #CleanMeat #PetFood #Crickets #Insects #Nutrition #ClimateChange #Pets #Cats #Dogs #Meatly #LabGrownMeat #LabMeat #NYTimes #GiftArticle
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"Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might."
"Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?"
I've had cricket snacks. They're not bad. If they could show good nutritional value, not missing any nutrients, I would definitely see if my cat would like it.
US pets consume approx 25% of all animal derived calories in the country.
And it would be an easier path to adoption.
#MeatAlternatives #CleanMeat #PetFood #Crickets #Insects #Nutrition #ClimateChange #Pets #Cats #Dogs #Meatly #LabGrownMeat #LabMeat #NYTimes #GiftArticle
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👏 La chair de laboratoire #cellmeat #labmeat #cultivatedmeat commence sont installation au sein de l'Europe, avec enfin des subventions bien ciblées ! "van Leeuwen serait devenu le premier agriculteur au monde à recevoir un financement agricole pour la production de viande cultivée" -- https://vegconomist.com/cultivated-cell-cultured-biotechnology/cultivated-meat/worlds-first-cultivated-meat-farm-opens-netherlands-collaboration-respectfarms/
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Lab ice cream.
#VeganFood #LabMeat #LabMilk #LabWhey #PrecisionFermentation #Fermentation
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Lab ice cream.
#VeganFood #LabMeat #LabMilk #LabWhey #PrecisionFermentation #Fermentation
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Lab ice cream.
#VeganFood #LabMeat #LabMilk #LabWhey #PrecisionFermentation #Fermentation
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Lab ice cream.
#VeganFood #LabMeat #LabMilk #LabWhey #PrecisionFermentation #Fermentation
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Lab ice cream.
#VeganFood #LabMeat #LabMilk #LabWhey #PrecisionFermentation #Fermentation
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Has anyone told Ron that every risen bread he has ever eaten is essentially "lab grown”?
That the act of baking with things like yeast, baking power, baking soda, salt, and other things turn the kitchen into a home chemistry and biolab?
Finally: How much money did he receive from the cattle industry?
#LabMeat
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/florida-ban-analysis-canada-1.7197136 -
CW: Pol, Big Ag, Lab Meat
What the unmitigated....
Freaking Farm Death industry will do anything to protect their bloodstained profits.
Lab-Made Meat? Florida Lawmakers Don’t Like the Sound of It. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/climate/lab-meat-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WU0.aVVE.MBDSR9IcRSa6&smid=nytcore-android-share
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It exists. There's a couple articles about it:
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/21/1138371310/a-taste-of-lab-grown-meatOne issue i remember hearing years ago when they first produced the $300,000 proof of concept hamburger, was that the source nutrients to grow the lab meat had to come from animal extracts. So it was still indirectly coming from animals.
But it has been awhile. Maybe they've figured out how to get the necessary stuff from plant based sources.
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You've heard of lab meat, now there is lab palm oil.
It is made by feeding yeast cells that produce oil.
It is available to consumers under the name "Palmless".
Producing palm oil involves killing orangutans and burning down equatorial forests.
#LabMeat #LabPalmOil #PalmOil #Palmless #Deforestation #Orangutans
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Re-read this article by George from Feb. this year. Thought provoking and worrying as always. #ClimateCrisis
The linked Reuters item is interesting too and gives a balanced account of where #LabMeat is at the moment.
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Cell-cultured chicken gets the final green light from #USDA
#LabMeat #CulturedMeat #synbio #Agriculture #ClimateChange
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/21/usda-cultivated-meat-approval/
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CW: Lab meat sustainability discussion
From the perspective of animal welfare, lab meat makes sense.
Environmentally, the answer is not so clear in the case of free ranging beef when including soil carbon storage in grassland-rumiant ecosystems. Admittedly, the grasslands would need to be managed very biodiversity-friendly and there are simply not enough grasslands to feed 9 billion people with a western meat overconsupmtion habits.
And for pig & poultry, except in a backyard or really smallscale farms there is anyway no sustainable production.So, for an electricity-based meat production (btw, where do they source their raw materials? Recycled organic wastes? Legumes?), we need to consider the direct and indirect emissions of the electricity system. In many countries, the share of renewables is on the rise, but currently, solar and wind are mainly adding production capacity to cover the increases in consumption, with only slight decreases in total emissions of the energy sector because coal, gas and oil are still burned. All the promoters of tech-solutions assume that their product will use only zero emission electricity, without having marginal effects on the whole system.
Then there is the health perspective: Although I cheer every meat alternative that helps to bring down factory farming, I am reluctant of ultraprocessed foods produced by intransparent companies (But that is not my field of expertise, more a gut-feeling).
And finally, what I think is the most important point and also interesting for anthropologists: the dependence on highly centralized and technizised systems for food production is not a good idea. Not for resilience as they have vulnerable supply chains (a lab needs many components from different parts pf the world, starting with latex gloves). And not from a cultural perspective, as food production is an inherent part of human subsistence. It is unwise, to be totally disconnected from the people that produce our food and their way of live.
#AgroEcology #PeasantFarming #LabMeat #ArtificialMeat #Meat #LessMeat #Vegetarian #Vegan
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CW: Lab meat sustainability discussion
From the perspective of animal welfare, lab meat makes sense.
Environmentally, the answer is not so clear in the case of free ranging beef when including soil carbon storage in grassland-rumiant ecosystems. Admittedly, the grasslands would need to be managed very biodiversity-friendly and there are simply not enough grasslands to feed 9 billion people with a western meat overconsupmtion habits.
And for pig & poultry, except in a backyard or really smallscale farms there is anyway no sustainable production.So, for an electricity-based meat production (btw, where do they source their raw materials? Recycled organic wastes? Legumes?), we need to consider the direct and indirect emissions of the electricity system. In many countries, the share of renewables is on the rise, but currently, solar and wind are mainly adding production capacity to cover the increases in consumption, with only slight decreases in total emissions of the energy sector because coal, gas and oil are still burned. All the promoters of tech-solutions assume that their product will use only zero emission electricity, without having marginal effects on the whole system.
Then there is the health perspective: Although I cheer every meat alternative that helps to bring down factory farming, I am reluctant of ultraprocessed foods produced by intransparent companies (But that is not my field of expertise, more a gut-feeling).
And finally, what I think is the most important point and also interesting for anthropologists: the dependence on highly centralized and technizised systems for food production is not a good idea. Not for resilience as they have vulnerable supply chains (a lab needs many components from different parts pf the world, starting with latex gloves). And not from a cultural perspective, as food production is an inherent part of human subsistence. It is unwise, to be totally disconnected from the people that produce our food and their way of live.
#AgroEcology #PeasantFarming #LabMeat #ArtificialMeat #Meat #LessMeat #Vegetarian #Vegan
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CW: Lab meat sustainability discussion
From the perspective of animal welfare, lab meat makes sense.
Environmentally, the answer is not so clear in the case of free ranging beef when including soil carbon storage in grassland-rumiant ecosystems. Admittedly, the grasslands would need to be managed very biodiversity-friendly and there are simply not enough grasslands to feed 9 billion people with a western meat overconsupmtion habits.
And for pig & poultry, except in a backyard or really smallscale farms there is anyway no sustainable production.So, for an electricity-based meat production (btw, where do they source their raw materials? Recycled organic wastes? Legumes?), we need to consider the direct and indirect emissions of the electricity system. In many countries, the share of renewables is on the rise, but currently, solar and wind are mainly adding production capacity to cover the increases in consumption, with only slight decreases in total emissions of the energy sector because coal, gas and oil are still burned. All the promoters of tech-solutions assume that their product will use only zero emission electricity, without having marginal effects on the whole system.
Then there is the health perspective: Although I cheer every meat alternative that helps to bring down factory farming, I am reluctant of ultraprocessed foods produced by intransparent companies (But that is not my field of expertise, more a gut-feeling).
And finally, what I think is the most important point and also interesting for anthropologists: the dependence on highly centralized and technizised systems for food production is not a good idea. Not for resilience as they have vulnerable supply chains (a lab needs many components from different parts pf the world, starting with latex gloves). And not from a cultural perspective, as food production is an inherent part of human subsistence. It is unwise, to be totally disconnected from the people that produce our food and their way of live.
#AgroEcology #PeasantFarming #LabMeat #ArtificialMeat #Meat #LessMeat #Vegetarian #Vegan
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CW: Lab meat sustainability discussion
From the perspective of animal welfare, lab meat makes sense.
Environmentally, the answer is not so clear in the case of free ranging beef when including soil carbon storage in grassland-rumiant ecosystems. Admittedly, the grasslands would need to be managed very biodiversity-friendly and there are simply not enough grasslands to feed 9 billion people with a western meat overconsupmtion habits.
And for pig & poultry, except in a backyard or really smallscale farms there is anyway no sustainable production.So, for an electricity-based meat production (btw, where do they source their raw materials? Recycled organic wastes? Legumes?), we need to consider the direct and indirect emissions of the electricity system. In many countries, the share of renewables is on the rise, but currently, solar and wind are mainly adding production capacity to cover the increases in consumption, with only slight decreases in total emissions of the energy sector because coal, gas and oil are still burned. All the promoters of tech-solutions assume that their product will use only zero emission electricity, without having marginal effects on the whole system.
Then there is the health perspective: Although I cheer every meat alternative that helps to bring down factory farming, I am reluctant of ultraprocessed foods produced by intransparent companies (But that is not my field of expertise, more a gut-feeling).
And finally, what I think is the most important point and also interesting for anthropologists: the dependence on highly centralized and technizised systems for food production is not a good idea. Not for resilience as they have vulnerable supply chains (a lab needs many components from different parts pf the world, starting with latex gloves). And not from a cultural perspective, as food production is an inherent part of human subsistence. It is unwise, to be totally disconnected from the people that produce our food and their way of live.
#AgroEcology #PeasantFarming #LabMeat #ArtificialMeat #Meat #LessMeat #Vegetarian #Vegan
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CW: Lab meat sustainability discussion
From the perspective of animal welfare, lab meat makes sense.
Environmentally, the answer is not so clear in the case of free ranging beef when including soil carbon storage in grassland-rumiant ecosystems. Admittedly, the grasslands would need to be managed very biodiversity-friendly and there are simply not enough grasslands to feed 9 billion people with a western meat overconsupmtion habits.
And for pig & poultry, except in a backyard or really smallscale farms there is anyway no sustainable production.So, for an electricity-based meat production (btw, where do they source their raw materials? Recycled organic wastes? Legumes?), we need to consider the direct and indirect emissions of the electricity system. In many countries, the share of renewables is on the rise, but currently, solar and wind are mainly adding production capacity to cover the increases in consumption, with only slight decreases in total emissions of the energy sector because coal, gas and oil are still burned. All the promoters of tech-solutions assume that their product will use only zero emission electricity, without having marginal effects on the whole system.
Then there is the health perspective: Although I cheer every meat alternative that helps to bring down factory farming, I am reluctant of ultraprocessed foods produced by intransparent companies (But that is not my field of expertise, more a gut-feeling).
And finally, what I think is the most important point and also interesting for anthropologists: the dependence on highly centralized and technizised systems for food production is not a good idea. Not for resilience as they have vulnerable supply chains (a lab needs many components from different parts pf the world, starting with latex gloves). And not from a cultural perspective, as food production is an inherent part of human subsistence. It is unwise, to be totally disconnected from the people that produce our food and their way of live.
#AgroEcology #PeasantFarming #LabMeat #ArtificialMeat #Meat #LessMeat #Vegetarian #Vegan
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Italy is moving to become the first country in the world to ban its companies from producing lab-cultivated meat, threatening fines of up to €60,000.
Upon introducing the bill to the Senate, the country's Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Minister, Francesco Lollobrigida, said: "It damages small food producers. It damages the environment. It standardises food habits. Studies do not guarantee it's safe."
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#FDA #Chicken #Lab #LabMeat #LabChicken #Vegan #VeganFood #Environment #AnimalRights #FactoryFarms
The FDA cleared Lab Grown Chicken as being safe for human consumption.
I'm glad that it might be there in the future for others, but I will not eat it.
https://www.cfsanappsexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/?set=AnimalCellCultureFoods&id=001
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#PalmOil #Orangatans #LabMeat #Vegan #AnimalRights
Forget lab meat, this org is working on lab palm oil.
https://vegnews.com/vegan-news/technology/cultured-palm-oil-be-save-orangutans
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Is lab-grown steak #kosher? Religious leaders weigh the sensitive question
Kosher stem cells are in the discussion.
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Why are there secrets to making lab-grown meat? And what's the future of the industry anyway?
What's The Future of Lab Meat? #shorts -
#MealWormProtein #InsectProtein #Vegan #GoVegan #Mushrooms #Fungi #LabMeat
There isn't a need for this.
Legumes, grains, and many vegetables produce many more times the protein per acre than livestock. Mushrooms and other fungi are even more efficient and can be grown with far fewer resources. The protein levels can likely be cranked up too.
There isn't a need for people to eat bugs.
https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/22846-insect-protein-maker-to-build-second-us-facility
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#MealWormProtein #InsectProtein #Vegan #GoVegan #Mushrooms #Fungi #LabMeat
There isn't a need for this.
Legumes, grains, and many vegetables produce many more times the protein per acre than livestock. Mushrooms and other fungi are even more efficient and can be grown with far fewer resources. The protein levels can likely be cranked up too.
There isn't a need for people to eat bugs.
https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/22846-insect-protein-maker-to-build-second-us-facility
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#MealWormProtein #InsectProtein #Vegan #GoVegan #Mushrooms #Fungi #LabMeat
There isn't a need for this.
Legumes, grains, and many vegetables produce many more times the protein per acre than livestock. Mushrooms and other fungi are even more efficient and can be grown with far fewer resources. The protein levels can likely be cranked up too.
There isn't a need for people to eat bugs.
https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/22846-insect-protein-maker-to-build-second-us-facility
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#LabMeat #FDA #Environment #Vegan "According to the UPSIDE website, cultivated meat is estimated to use 77% less water and 62% less land than conventionally raised meat."
https://www.verywellhealth.com/fda-lab-grown-meat-6833515 -
Now this is something to look forward to #labMeat https://twitter.com/georgemonbiot/status/1596033732708012037?s=46&t=yQ8MGJX626ofds-fh3XZ1Q
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CW: cultured meat
Off we go: first approval of an animal-free meat. Look ma, no feathers!
Apparently it's a chicken replacement.