FDA Says Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe To Eat. Would you consume?

#1

Upside Foods has been approved to sell its lab-grown or “cultivated.” chicken. Would you consume?

#2

I try anything if it’s cheap, my body surely can handle it in tiny amounts. I can do research later if I want to eat it galore (okay, I would never do that with anything resembling chicken…). But it won’t be anywhere soon for sure.

But I want crickets more.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #3

It’s easier, less expensive, and more eco-friendly to grow chickens naturally, than to build meat in a lab. The carbon footprint of lab-grown meat is horrendous, whereas chickens, if managed properly, can help regenerate the soil.

#4

No. :grimacing:

#5

Nope.

#6

But it’s probably tied to the costs or at least both are high… I don’t expect ever eating lab-grown meat as it surely will be nowhere in the not too distant future I would guess…
I don’t even get my crickets! And they are simple, one just breeds them, nothing fancy…

I actually like that I eat normal meat and I totally plan to get richer and get most of my pork from the local farm. But trying out stuff? Sure. If it’s a viable option already.

(KM) #7

I eat small regenerative farm-raised chicken. I pay through the nose for it, so I’m mostly about eggs. But if the lab raised chicken were a comparable price to battery cages / other cruel practices (in other words if I could buy meat without causing that unnecessary suffering), I might consider it. … probably not, but at least I wouldn’t be quite as disturbed about the conditions.

#8

No, because that’s gross. But also the LAST people I would ever trust with my health is the FDA! I can’t think of a single organization that’s related to food that’s proven itself more incompetent than them, it’s pretty easy I guess when it’s impossible to hold them legally accountable for anything they say/do.

(B Creighton) #9

“stem cells are taken from the source animal (either via a biopsy from an adult animal, or from an in-vitro embryo) and are encouraged to multiply in a bioreactor filled with a nutrient-rich broth.”
Just because something is “safe,” doesn’t mean it’s healthy. The FDA lists sugar as safe… nuf said.

(KM) #10

I wonder how much crap carb is in the “nutrient” rich broth. Perhaps they mean “bathed lovingly in corn starch and glucose.” :frowning:

#11

I would agree 100%. Let’s hope this experiment/company goes broke and others are not tempted to also peruse Frankenstein meat.

#12

Beyond meat is showing how many people “want” their test tube meat! Impossible will follow, they just have more money to fake it for the time being.

(Alec) #13

Like all foods, before I ate it I would need to understand the ingredients and the manufacturing process.

As I don’t eat anything processed or from a plant, the chances I would eat this don’t look good! :joy:

#14

I don’t even know what FDA is but I don’t trust food industry either and still use their product as I need to eat something. I trust my body to tell me if it’s too bad. I can’t magically figure out things…

I am a VERY curious person, I would try many things. I only never tried vegan faux meat because I just can’t bring myself to pay money for something I definitely know that is bad and not good tasting :smiley: (I am still curious.) I can buy some tasty pork with that money… So I always do that instead…
But if test bites would be offered, I surely would try out very many things.
Eating them regularly is a very different matter entirely. But I am totally open-minded and hate animal cruelty.

#15

Food and Drug Administration, Federal Government.

#16

Yes, I would be willing to consume lab-grown meat if the FDA has determined it is safe to eat.

(Joey) #17

Laboratories are for conducting experiments. Having already discovered what food is, it’s unlikely I’d feel the urge.

Then again, context matters. While exploring Mars on a multi-year mission? Yeah, I’d probably wolf it down.

#18

Don’t have a headache do you? Got some surplus Vioxx if you need it, FDA cleared it so what could go wrong? :roll_eyes::roll_eyes::roll_eyes:

(MC) #19

No.

I was excited about lab grown meat as a vegetarian. It’s being marketed as meat without the cruelty or carbon footprint. Now I’m seeing more articles about the ‘immortal cell lines’ they use to replicate cells. These are used in the pharmaceutical industry all the time but never used in human health before. Another name for uncontrolled cell replication is a tumour.

Maybe after a few years or decades to study the long term effects and it might be a viable food source.

(Joey) #20

A compelling point. :thought_balloon:

(Been reading Dr. Thomas Seyfried’s extensive treatise on cancer as a metabolic disease. Fascinating stuff.)