Yuyarl@sh.itjust.works to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 9 months agoMeat rule, neat rulesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up1651arrow-down17
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minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·9 months agoThe tricky part of lab grown meat is you need to keep it from being infected. Keep the factory perfectly sterile. Any time a vat is colonised by fungi or bacteria or a virus its contents would have to be dumped and the equipment sterilised That’s going to be expensive. It will need feedstock. It will produce waste CO2 Meanwhile a cow has an immune system and eats low quality grass. Lab meat will not be able to compete with field grown meat
The tricky part of lab grown meat is you need to keep it from being infected.
Keep the factory perfectly sterile.
Any time a vat is colonised by fungi or bacteria or a virus its contents would have to be dumped and the equipment sterilised
That’s going to be expensive.
It will need feedstock. It will produce waste CO2
Meanwhile a cow has an immune system and eats low quality grass.
Lab meat will not be able to compete with field grown meat