Ah, a report that recognises just how significant lab-grown meat could be :
"An independent study found that lab-grown beef uses 45% less energy than the average global representative figure for farming cattle. It also produces 96% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires 99% less land."
Bye bye cows !
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34540193
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ReplyDeletePrice will be the ultimate arbiter of this thing. I certainly hope they can ramp production up to ultimately compete - or beat - dead animal production. Those enviro number are impressive.
Beef production is notoriously thirsty - I wonder how the vat beef compares on water usage.
I like to think that alternative meats could be done as well - meat unlike any ever tasted by a carni-/omin-vore.
ReplyDeleteNext, Chicken Little?
ReplyDeleteOm nom nom....
ReplyDeleteBon appetit, boys!
ReplyDeleteWe have a carniculture plant where any kind of animal tissue we wanted was grown—Terran pork and beef and poultry, Freyan zhoumy meat, Zarathustran veldtbeest... "You can get all the paté de foie gras you want here," I said. "We have a chunk of goose liver about fifty feet in diameter growing in one of our vats."
ReplyDelete–Walt Boyd, Four Day Planet (© 1961), H. Beam Piper