[atonse]

Arthanari, I've noticed you're pushing this idea of artificial ingredients being added to the meat.

Genuine question, are you talking about certain lab grown meat products vs others? Look at this excerpt from a wired article [1]: At Finless Foods, they take a bit of fish meat and filter it for a particular kind of cell, not so much stem cells but stem-like cells, what they’re calling progenitor cells. “We're looking for cells that have the ability to differentiate into different lineages,” says Selden. “So we're looking for cells that are stem enough.”

The idea is to trick these cells into thinking they’re still in their owner. So by feeding them nutrients like salts and sugars, Finless can get the cells to turn into muscles or fat or connective tissue. Think of it like sourdough yeast: Once you’ve got a starter strain, you can keep making a distinctive bread. “Once each of these companies has a cell line going,” says Selden, “they never have to go back to the initial animal.”

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/

[Arthanari]

>> Cultured meat production requires a preservative, such as sodium benzoate, to protect the growing meat from yeast and fungus. Collagen powder, xanthan gum, mannitol and cochineal could be used in different ways during the process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

This is what wikipedia says.

They are all bad for health and simply used to extend the life time of a product beyond its natural lifetime so that the seller does not loose the money and with no other healthy intent.

https://www.glutenfreeschool.com/2014/06/10/what-is-xanthan-...

15 grams or not. Why eat it when there can be better choices.

[Arthanari]

The whole process is artificial.

[atonse]

But with that rationale, so is our current factory farming process.

Animals don't naturally graze, they are fed all the food they need. They don't naturally die. They are killed. They aren't naturally conceived, they are inseminated.

Where does the "natural" absolutism end?

[Arthanari]

So instead of working on improving this process we are totally jumping ship to a artificial process? So basically we have given up on such a simple task of raising good cattle which our ancestors have been doing for centuries because some scientists found some cool trick to multiply cells in the lab and are looking for ways to push their cool inventions on the masses to feel good and important?