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Lab-Grown Meat’s Carbon Footprint Potentially Worse Than Retail Beef (www.ucdavis.edu)
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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Yes he is a shithead ghoul. But the people financing cultivated meat are also ghouls (effective altruists). I would also agree with what he's saying here, having worked in a cultivatedeat company. The problem is we're trying to grow single cells that don't want to grow by themselves. They have no immune system, and no hormone production. So you have to supply those things exogenously, and run it in a sterile process. The Humbird report mentioned in the article on The Counter linked above does a good job of explaining it, I also tried to explain it in my own article, which is a top level comment.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    More than 90% of the funding for lab grown meat comes from China not effective altruists. Similar to green energy, the effective altruists are just following in the wake of China

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But the people financing cultivated meat are also ghouls

    And the Communist Party of China thinking-about-it

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Even when you have single cells that want to grow by themselves like yeast its very hard to mantain a sterile process. Thats why lager became the most common beer type. It alows you to run bio reactors at very cold temperatures to give the desired yeast time to outcompete the others. And thus you need to spend less efort mantaining a sterile situation.

    I cant imagine how hard is to mantain a sterile enviorment with meat cells.

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