Hey My J's,
Here I am, back with your daily dose of banter on the blockchain and today. I thought I'd take a stab at the emergence of lab-grown meat. Cultured meat as they call it, (probably went to a good school in a white neighbourhood and shit) is meat produced by in vitro cultivation of animal cells, instead of from slaughtered animals.
This new form of cellular agriculture is straight out of a sci-fi movie but only it's real and this. cultured meat is produced using many of the same tissue engineering techniques traditionally used in regenerative medicine.
So basically, they take cells and replicate it until it turns into a nice juicy ass steak, so they just grow the parts you want to season and throw in a hot pan.
Forget farm to table its now lab to table
Labs across the world are now trying to refine the process and scale it to produce mass quantities for production and competition with traditional meat produce to subsidize the market and provide an alternative as well as a sustainable food source for the growing population but I highly doubt this will be the case.
This tech is marked as a way to end world hunger but we could have ended that years ago, we choose not to because it's not part of the current profit motive and synthetic meats will fall into the same category. Perhaps food will get cheaper over time but it will by no means reach the hands of the poor and needy any time soon, nor will it reduce the demand for traditional meat.
It will probably spark a new subculture and have an education drive until the fad dies out if they are able to reach commercial viability at any sort of scale.
Farming of the future
Where I really feel this tech will become helpful will be in combination with space travel, if you're able to grow your own produce and replicate it in labs you've just created a sustainable way to travel long distances away from the planet and even remain off the planet. Perhaps starting colonies in space, the moon, mars without having to plan so many refuelling missions saving a massive amount of money and improving our chances of becoming an inter-planetary species.
Have your say
What do you good people of steem think? Would you eat lab-grown meat? Do you think it will catch on? What does it do to the no meat/vegan debate?
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