(3/3) … alternative products using other #technologies such as #fermentation or #plantbased substitutes already move forward (e.g. #BeyondMeat), i.e. we can restore #habitats to allow wild mammals to flourish without compromising human wellbeing: ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-... #cleanmeat #diets

Wild mammals have declined by ...

(2/2) … cultured meat has the potential to offer a solution for #consumers who want to reduce their #meat consumption but who are dissatisfied with current alternatives: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... #sustainable #culturedmeat #cleanmeat

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Advancements in the #cultivatedmeat sector defy early skepticism & surpass expectations. Barriers once deemed insurmountable are overcome & production #costs plummet; leading-edge companies achieve costs as low as 8 $/kg already: www.thecellbase.com/news/report-... #meat #sustainable #cleanmeat

Report: A second generation of...

(2/2) … that #consumers associate with #meat cuts. With sufficient #funding, products based on the approach could be available in 5-10 years, and #costs are expected to decrease substantially over time: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #culturedmeat #cleanmeat

Lab-grown chicken ‘nuggets’ ha...

#Patent publications by European alternative #protein innovators increased by 960% since 2015, but important areas (e.g. #plantbreeding of better protein crops to provide raw ingredients for #plantbased products) remain neglected. Few #patents are published on cultivated #meat & precision #fermentation, and just 1% of patents relates to alternative #seafood, highlighting need for more research: https://gfieurope.org/blog/report-european-alternative-protein-patents-jump-by-960-in-10-years/ #innovation #research #cleanmeat #cultivatedmeat #precisionfermentation

The EU's #NovelFood framework is fit for regulating cultivated #meat; the use of the #PrecautionaryPrinciple to ban #CultivatedMeat is not justified (provisional & proportionate). Existing #regulations provide the EU gastronomic #heritage with adequate safeguards: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41538-025-00384-0 #cleanmeat

If all animal #meat is replaced with #plant-based alternatives in Dutch #diets, average utilizable protein intake remains adequate, esp. if the #protein comes from a variety of plant sources: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2025.104562 #Netherlands #cleanmeat #vegan #nutrition

(5/6) Regarding cultured meat, being male, younger, better educated, urban and environmentally concerned indicates greater willing to substitute conventional meat with #cleanmeat: https://doi.org/10.1787/97c4041a-en

First in Europe: UK Approves Lab-Grown Meat
#UK #LabGrownMeat #Meatly #SustainableFood #UKInnovation #CultivatedChicken #PetFood #FoodTech #EnvironmentalSustainability #FutureOfFood #CleanMeat #FoodRevolution #Environment #Tech
https://the-14.com/first-in-europe-uk-approves-lab-grown-meat/

Cultivated #pork has the authentic flavors & textures #consumers expect from traditional pork. With a scalable platform, affordable #meat products for mainstream consumers can be developed: https://futurealternative.com.au/magic-valley-reveals-new-cultivated-pork-bao-buns/ #culturedmeat #cleanmeat

(3/3) But the #culturedmeat industry is still in its early stages and more #funding is urgently needed to ensure it can reach a size where it will have an impact on the global food supply: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23961-8 #cleanmeat #sustainable #foodsecurity

(2/2) To allow #cultivatedmeat to move the needle on issues such as #foodsecurity & #climatechange, public funding is needed: https://cultivated-x.com/meat/supermeats-cultivated-chicken-outperforms-most-efficient-farm-animal-carbon-footprint-study/ #LCA #sustainable #cleanmeat #funding

Modern #meat alternatives (e.g. Beyond Burger) display substantial meat mimicry & target the sizeable #market of meat eaters. While promising #sustainability benefits (e.g. less GHG #emission & #landuse), they do not require behavioral change: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100183 #cleanmeat

(2/2) #Survey: Most Germans want the government to support #farmers in switching to producing a higher proportion of #plantbased foods. They are aware of the economic opportunities offered by cultivated #meat & interested in consumer choice: https://gfieurope.org/blog/survey-germans-and-austrians-say-consumers-should-have-freedom-to-choose-cultivated-meat/ #cleanmeat

#Germany: People believe #consumers should be able to eat cultivated #meat, which should also benefit the economy. #CultivatedMeat is like the #beef, #pork & #chicken people eat today but produced by #fermentation, not farming: https://gfieurope.org/blog/survey-germans-and-austrians-say-consumers-should-have-freedom-to-choose-cultivated-meat/ #cleanmeat (1/2)

Cultivated meat can provide #meat without exceeding planetary boundaries as its #environment impact is lower vs conventional meat. #Livestock farmers can have #bioreactors to grow #cultivatedmeat & use their land for crops: https://www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/929011/cultivated-meat-is-eu-falling-behind-in-approving-novel-food-and-ensuring-global-food-security #farmers #cleanmeat #landuse

@pferal

Thanks for the unlocked article.

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It’s a vision of hedonism — but altruism, too. A way to save water, free up vast tracts of land, drastically cut planet-warming emissions, protect vulnerable species. It’s an escape hatch for humankind’s excesses. All we have to do is tie on our bibs.
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TGTBT

My prediction has been, for years, that they can't scale up. Tissues are complicated and if the tech was viable, it would've already been used for medical needs. My concern was mostly about how the "lab" will replace the immune system, which is a very complex system in animals. This kind of differentiation and maintenance of "identity" in tissue systems, recognizing who they are, is very complex and downright philosophically challenging.

Of course, my overall problem with this "future" is that it's morally lazy and culturally problematic. We do actually need to end meat foods *culturally*, as a form, it's a culture war. There's absolutely no reason a lifetime vegan would need to eat such forms. For ex-carnists, like most of us here, the cultural "meat food" forms are eroding over time and I think it's fairly obvious that these are products for novices used as a psychological crutch to maintain some type of cultural normality unnecessarily.

Lab meat is the purest form of this cultural swap, it's almost ideal ecomodernism: swapping only the production and everything else is "normal". As the author says:

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The answer has to do with much more than a new kind of food. For all its terrifying urgency, climate change is an invitation — to reinvent our economies, to rethink consumption, to redraw our relationships to nature and to one another. Cultivated meat was an excuse to shirk that hard, necessary work. The idea sounded futuristic, but its appeal was all about nostalgia, a way to pretend that things will go on as they always have, that nothing really needs to change. It was magical climate thinking, a delicious delusion.
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In reality, I think that it will still be relevant in the future. But not because it scaled up. Rather, because the energy crisis and climate crisis will reduce agricultural productivity a lot and will make "free range" animal pharming non viable. This scarcity would lead to huge prices for animal products, which will make the "lab meat" cheaper by comparison. Plus, with the loss pressure on the animal sector, they'll push for more deregulation which will lead to contaminated animal products, and people will be looking for "lab meat" for that reason too.

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With that framing, cultivated meat always seemed like a story about optimism. It was about the way people came together and solved big problems in the nick of time. It was about the infinite potential of human ingenuity, our ability to make the impossible possible.
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That's the hype of the green capitalists, the ecomodernists. It's all about not changing anything meaningful while tweaking the technology. The moral philosophy version is called "effective altruism", and it's also plagued by scammers.

Again, I do think that this technology will have some results eventually. And I'm looking forward to human tissues, not to eat, but because I'd like to see humans getting tissue and organs from labs instead of waiting for someone to die in traffic carnage (the car system needs to be replaced too with something nicer and safer).

My favorite depiction so far is in the show "Billions", where there's a vegan character, a genius hedge fund CEO type and they're supposedly trying to get super wealthy in order to have $$$$ to spend on charity and Plant-Based Capitalism.

As @Sentientism says, and I'm paraphrasing, we need people to do the work, as opposed to taking moral shortcuts.

#cleanMeat #labMeat #ecoModernism #greenCapitalism #growth #effectiveAltruism just #goVegan already.

For the organ donor aspect: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/motorcycle-rallies-and-organ-donation-a-curious-connection-202301042870

#CultivatedMeat may satisfy future #protein needs. Inexpensive plant #proteins could be used to grow these cell cultures. A #wheat protein successfully grew striated muscle & flat fat layers, which could produce #meat-like textures: https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2024/january/non-allergenic-wheat-protein-for-growing-better-cultivated-meat.html #cleanmeat #diets

Highlighting #business opportunities from #innovations (e.g. cultivated #meat) can shift perceptions among interests vested in the status quo from “certain cost” to “potential benefit”. Concrete #incentives to turn losers into winners can help: https://foodsystemeconomics.org/policy/global-policy-report/ #cleanmeat

Food capable to ensure #foodsecurity during crises must be found. Insects & #culturedmeat are most suitable to replace chicken and can be complemented by algae, mycoproteins & plant proteins if embedded in the food supply: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-023-01390-4 #cleanmeat #sustainable #ProteinFolding