Lab-Grown Meat Coming to Supermarket Shelves Soon?
@http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/01/lab-grown-meat-coming-to-supermarket-shelves-soon.html
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Using the power of weaponized Silicon Valley, we are proudly introducing a new kind of chicken that tastes like chicken, feels like chicken, smells like the chicken--but is actually not the chicken. What we have here is science at work surpassing the levels previously thought known to man, and literally using animal cells as the fundamental resource for the chicken tendies at your local Rite Aid. So basically meat supply is going to look like cells growing on a petri dish and the development of muscle will prompt Science Guys(tm) to harvest it and cook it for you. It is said that this technique would take a whopping 6 weeks to fully amalgamate that pseudo chicken taste, and frankly the technique and speed calls into question some economic implications. Production as of now is $6000 per pound of meat which may be raising some eyebrows for Agriculture guy at Washington but this is actually a significant reduction from the initial $18000 it cost per pound. Obviously, when this left stroke goes viral the meat industry is going to be in shambles. We are looking at a $200 billion meat and pultry empire about to collapse because some kids in Silicon Valley decided $5 20 chicken nugeest from Mickey-Ds wasn't good enough. By genetically creating the meat, this is that technology thing that Mr. Felder was talking about that is increasing the supply and lowering production costs rather than slaughtering the chickens at Davis. It's going to be interesting to see what the meat scene is going to look like once we graduate college, and hopefully there will be cheap dinosaur chicken nuggets for all.
Questions:
1. Do you think there are ethical concerns by being Bill Nye and creating artificial chicken meat?
2. How do you think the meat empires (Foster Farms) is going to respond to their gradual destruction?
3. Do you think their will be health propaganda against these fake chickens by the kids at Washington?
4. What is your favorite place to get chicken tendies, and how do you feel about the possibility of that being replaced by lab-grown chicken meats?
I think artificial selection has been a big part of civilization in general. But i think the main concern of big meat corporations is how they treat the animals
ReplyDeletei think that companies like foster farms will respond negatively because they have been around for a while and worked hard to build their company.
ReplyDeletei think that foster farms will probably create advertisements that will fight back the new "chicken". My favorite place to get chicken tenders is Burger King and I would loathe the person that thought of this idea in the first place if it got replaced.
ReplyDeleteI feel that this is an interesting development and will be slow to be allowed to sell
ReplyDeleteI think that it will not sell as quickly as others, as many will be hesitant to buy them but it might start a conversation as to if its better/worse than the "chicken" we eat now
ReplyDeleteI think that people will not really care about this because so many people are already careless with what they eat
ReplyDeletePeople shouldn't be fed fake or artificial food, so it's definitely not ethical and there will most likely be protests against it. It's possible that companies such as Foster Farms to promote their products and demote these kinds of products.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is a good idea to put lab grown chicken in supermarkets. Meat empires like Foster Farms will probably not respond too positively about it.
ReplyDeleteI will never try this kind of chicken because anything that not grown naturaly is not healthy, and I don't think it will taste good no matter what other people think.
ReplyDeleteThere will always be people trying to cut corners and use this type of meat if it ends up being cheaper than processing real meat. This is a new step, but not necessarily in the right direction. There will be a large amount of people boycotting this new "meat", and won't eat it as long as real chickens are around.
ReplyDeleteI would not try this because I prefer my chicken grown naturally. Although I eat McDonalds, I know that the chicken I am eating had been alive on a farm at one time in its life.
ReplyDeleteI don't usually eat chicken tenders but even if I did, i wouldn't want to eat anything that isn't actually chicken. I think it's very unhealthy because we don't know how it was made.
ReplyDeleteI find it hilarious that everyone is so surprised about eating lab grown meat when almost everyone eat this everyday at lunch. The meat patties that our schools pack are packed with GMOs. (genetically modified organisms) We need to be more aware of this.
ReplyDeleteI think you will find foster farms is going to lose some stock at first and is going to be paranoid and then they will point point how the other meat is all fake and 100% processed and people will stop buying it
ReplyDeleteSo much of our food is artificial, I don't see why this is an ethical problem.
ReplyDeleteI agree that in this day and age so much of the food in America isn't real I don't see why this is shocking to anyone.
ReplyDeleteI agree with caroline, so much food now a days is processed and fake, like what even is real now a day?? although this does make me uncomfortable because it isnt actual chicken
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