Cultivated meat, precision fermentation, and GMO agriculture are expanding globally as regulators, researchers, and farming industries debate long-term impacts on health, food security, and traditional agriculture.

  • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    It’s not because they want to change, but because droughts, diseases, cost of fertilizer and the like will force them to look for other cheaper ways to produce meat or they’ll have to go vegan.

    The cyberpunk name is scop: single celled organing protein. Real meat is there only for the rich.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      For now, lab grown meat is super expensive, and I honestly can’t see a way it will ever catch up to faciry farmed animals. Factory farmed animal meat is very close to optimal in terms of cost efficiency.

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          5 days ago

          Right, the true cost efficiency is lentils and chickpeas. People who dislike these just don’t know how to make them in appealing ways which is frankly not hard with just some exploration.

      • timestatic@feddit.org
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        5 days ago

        Honestly aside from the nutrients the infrastructure around them is crazy. For now lab-grown meat still is very expensive but I think if optimized and produced at mass scale the cost could definitely go below what meat from animal facotries costs