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by atonse 2995 days ago
Yes, without a doubt. It takes many of the downsides of meat out of the equation (animal cruelty, environmental impact, use of antibiotics).

I don't know how the health effects would change though.

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Don't you think a lab grown meat is something that is 100% antibiotics?

It is odd how one says Yes without a doubt to something that one eats, but also is aware of being unaware of its health effects.

It is very scary though...

Don't you think we should eat something that is guaranteed to bring good health to us...

Wouldn't lab grown meat have no antibiotics since they probably won't encounter any random diseases.
Any idea why they wont have any disease? Because they are not even a living entity. they are just a non living thing, like a stone or sand or plastic or shells in the ocean. Would humans be inclined to eat a non living thing? As a living being i think we should be eating other living beings, like a vegetable or organic salmon...

If we can easily believe that eating lab grown meat and real living natural food is same then why don't we believe fake news as real? They also sound real, they also have words, they also have websites they also appear to have likes...

This effort to make the boundary between nature and artificial disappear isn't it like making ourselves disappear, are we humans not natural beings?

Ok I suppose I should add caveats, like I am assuming that this would be FDA approved and tested by a few independent sources before being put on grocery shelves.

Regarding your thoughts on whether it's a living thing, is purely philosophical. It sounds to me like you haven't actually seen what goes into these artificial meats. They extract cells from animals and feed them the nutrients they need (like amino acids) to cause the cells to divide and grow like they would in the animal's body.

So whether a muscle grew with a cow over years, or it grew in a lab, does that really matter?

Is an organ that's grown on a pig any less an organ than one grown in a human?

I was thinking because they don't need to be exposed to farm conditions, with disease being able to transmit from animal to animal.

Because meat isn't true or untrue, it provides things your bodies need, things it doesn't need, or things that are harmful to it.

I'll be honest, I'm not totally on board, but I don't see any reason we shouldn't grow meat in a lab, and probably many benefits.

But vats can still support bacteria colonies, just like cows can.

Ideally, they'd be sterilized between batches, in a way that left no residue on the product. In practice, though, I wonder if they won't need to use antibiotics (or something like them) in order to ensure a safe product.

The advantage will be that all those antibiotics don't run off into the soil... except for the plant's wastewater. Still, it ought to be more localized than the current practice.

Reading your comments in this post, by now I must ask: what is your continued interest here? Are you honestly interested in "keep Humans natural" or similar? Are you in the meat industry?
I feel like they could keep everything totally sterilized. Hopefully with everything roboticised.