[elcritch]

In theory would it be possible (at scale) to design and deploy completely self contained pods? Essentially, seal them up and they run through a decontamination cycle then you use pre-steralized sealed starter kits from the Class 8 clean rooms?

Though, complete sterilization of even a sealed closed environment is hard, and if using heat can require a lot of energy. Then I guess you'd need to pasteurize all nutrients as well.

Makes me wonder if a form of fermentation could be made to work with meet growth? It'd screw with cell density of the meet, but perhaps you could create an artificial symbiosis. The fermentation bacteria inhibit growth of bad bacteria, but wouldn't take too much of the overall energy from the meat cells.

Wow, that's a tricky problem.