Would you eat it ? Lab grown meat

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Lab-grown food could be sold in UK in two years

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is looking at how it can speed up the approval process for lab-grown foods.

www.bbc.co.uk

Meat, dairy and sugar grown in a lab could be on sale in the UK for human consumption for the first time within two years, sooner than expected.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is looking at how it can speed up the approval process for lab-grown foods.

Such products are grown from cells in small chemical plants.

UK firms have led the way in the field scientifically but feel they have been held back by the current regulations.
Dog food made from meat that was grown in factory vats went on sale in the UK for the first time last month.

In 2020, Singapore became the first country to authorise the sale of cell-cultivated meat for human consumption, followed by the United States three years later and Israel last year.

However, Italy and the US states of Alabama and Florida have instituted bans.

The FSA is to develop new regulations by working with experts from high-tech food firms and academic researchers.

If it's safe for consumption then I see no issue although I can understand the philosophical concerns regarding it not being natural and also possibly long term issues like turning us into mutant hellspawns but it must surely not be that much difference from all the processed food we already consume ?

 

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If it has cost-parity with normal meat, sure

Make a poll please!!

 

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I'll say it cos I say it every time this thread comes up but "Animals" agricultural breeds would simply cease to exist after a year or 2. Maybe a few thousand kept in museums or by governments for when it all goes wrong
It's a weird argument to say their welfare is better because they don't exist.
Maybe we should do the same with people, Austrian painter under tones...

Not sure you can compare holocaust to simply moving away from eating livestock, those animals only purpose for existance is for human consumption, they've been bred through years of genetic breeding to create the perfect specimen for produce, is it really that bad if they cease to exist when they wouldn't exist in their current form without our meddling anyway ? Nothing is really "natural" about them apart from the fact they are alive

 

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I wonder if vegetarians and vegans will eat this?

I'm former carnivore turned vegetarian and I would definitely eat it provided there's no mutation risk

 

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Much of the UK was forested in your medieval idyll with small villages, few towns and a poorly fed population. If we reverted to a pre agricultural system the population we could support may be a few million.

Yes we had rainforests