In vitro meat for public consumption may become a reality relatively soon. Tetrick said that "before the end of 2018 is an accurate timeline" for some products to be offered in a number of restaurants in the United States and Asia, starting with chicken nuggets, sausage and foie gras.
Other companies forecast that we're a few years away from seeing clean meat in your local grocery store. Shapiro believes we will see clean meat on store shelves by 2021.
Clean meat will be sold at a premium when it's introduced. Though his first hamburger in 2013 was $330,000, Post claims that when it is offered to the public, it will be "maybe $11 for a hamburger." Friedrich said clean meat "only totally supplants animal meat when it becomes cheaper."
Natural reluctance may have been part of the reason why 80% of respondents in a 2014 Pew survey said they would not be willing to eat meat grown in a lab -- but that might be changing. A 2017 survey showed that nearly a third of people would be willing to eat clean meat regularly or as a replacement for traditional farmed meat.
I eat meat, but ggaaaarrrghhh what's wrong with people ? Lab-grown meat is ickier than animal flesh ? That doesn't made a single damn lick of sense.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/health/clean-in-vitro-meat-food/index.html
Not necessarily ickier, but I expect many people to have less trust in lab-grown meat with ill-understood methods (for them) and potential secondary effects no-one saw coming to a multi-million-year tested system.
ReplyDeleteSame problem with GMO, and it will probably be exacerbated for the same reasons - whatever evidence of harmlessness you can present, if something like Montsanto was involved, you know there are good chances they managed to screw you (and the entire production chain) big time.
I suspect Montsanto gave the entire biotech industry bad reputation for decades to come, the same way Uber is striving to with self-driving cars.
Well, distrust start with simple things: clean meat. It means it have to be produced in very dirty process they want to name it that way...
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