Meat The Future

Meat the future is a project that intends to inform people about todays unsustainable and inhumane meat industry. But also give hope for a change as there is a solution in sight, called In Vitro meat.

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Posted by Tom  on  08/05  at  12:26 AM

Saturated fat is healthy and grass finished meat is already high in omega 3. If your going to have in vitro meat you might as well base it on healthy grass finished animals instead of cows that are fed grains that make them sick.

Posted by Keith  on  08/08  at  02:44 AM

The great thing about in vitro meat is that once it gets to where you can generate texture and scale production to factory-sizes and have a six-week plasma-to-harvest cycle, you can pretty much tinker with the genetics and epigenetics and feed-nurtient solution so that you can make the meat produce fats that are healthy for you and free from any necrosis products and other red meat bad stuff like cholesterol and indigestable tissues--basically you turn meat into a vegetable in the way it's produced, and you control the environment, so you control the output and whether it's tasty and healthy or tasty and suicidal to eat. I forsee problems like factories that rely on single genestocks for their prioduction risking some kind of virullent meatrot, or other problems that occur with monocultures. I also have concerns regarding how an in-vitro meat factory would present as an environment for microbial evoloution that could be a threat either to the food supply or the human population, how would antivirals and antibiotics be used as the vitromeat grew, etc. It's already been shown that making plants produce their own "roundup" all the time makes bugs resistant at a geometrically increasing rate that is at two percent now but increasing annually, rather than shocking pests with chemical roundup and killing them before they have exposure and time to develop resistance, and the ones that resist the best pass that on to the next generation; I am not so concerned that I think development should be halted or anything, but I do think that as it's developing, measures need to be taken and science should be done by whatever the industry will be called that develops this that prevent and identify weaknesses in the process and facilities that could encourage something contagious and horrific to evolve in what could become a dominant part of the food supply by 2048-68, and therefore ultimately damaging to an industry that is potentially easy to destroy in it's cradle if such precautions aren't actively part of the development process. One vitromeat-borne outbreak in the early stages and confidence in the entire product and the process used to manufacture it would fall over a cliff; it would do to the industry what the Hindenburg did to Zepplin travel

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