Posted on 12/21/2021 11:53:43 AM PST by Red Badger
There has been a lot of activity in the world of cultured meat since we reported on a US$330,000 lab-grown burger back in 2013, as scientists and startups work to bring the price down to something resembling the real deal. Making inroads in this space is Israeli startup Future Meats, which has just received the largest investment ever in the cultured meat industry and is rapidly reducing the production costs of its lab-grown chicken.
Future Meats is one of a number of cultured meat companies working to reach cost parity with traditional meat products, with Impossible Foods, Eat Just and fellow Israeli outfit Aleph Farms also making significant advances in the last couple of years.
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With its own proprietary technology it calls a "media rejuvenation process," Future Meats is looking to make up this ground, fast. Its approach involves taking cells harvested from live animals and using stainless steel fermenters to continually remove waste products, while feeding the cells nutrients so that they proliferate and develop into tissues and, in turn, edible cuts of meat.
The company says this process leads to yields 10 times higher than the industry standard, while generating 80 percent less greenhouse gas emissions, using 99 percent less land and 96 percent less freshwater than traditional meat production. In February, Future Meats announced that its technology had advanced to the point where it could produce a cultured chicken breast for US$7.50, and then in June it opened the world's first lab-grown meat factory in the Israeli city of Rehovot, where it was able to produce these breasts for $3.90 a pop.
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Food Ping!....................sorta..........
Mmmm.. Frankenchicken!
Heaven forbid you raise and eat your own...
ummm...no
Just because something can be done, does not mean it should be.
This thread is timely. Heard women complain that Freeper males have breasts on their minds all day.
Makes me so glad I raise chicken, cows, etc. on my little plot of land in the rural country of SE Virginia.....
Soylent Green is People!
if we do not kill chickens any more to eat them, then what do we do with all the chickens that will be around?
Hey, remember when Dolly Parton fell down on stage
and it took four men to help her off.
Yep, two abreast!
Gross.
This crud will be jammed down our throats whether we like it or not.
Feed them to the hogs.......................
For a $1.70 I can grow a breast?
WHITE MEAT ONLY..................
2$ a breast, already cooked, is the current supermarket price. Making meat cells without having to have the rest of the Chicken is pretty neat. It could lead to cheap custom made organs down the road. Imagine replacing your heart every 40 years or so like an oil change . So much awesome stuff on the horizon if only we could only defeat the Communists at home .
We did a batch of meat birds several years ago and have currently 5 meat goats with more on the way in a few months. I’m wanting some Kunekune pigs for some fat content. I’ll have to look into doing another batch of meat birds. We did Red Rangers and hunting season postponed up our processing date so we had to feed them an extra week plus they take longer and cost more to begin with compared to Cornish Cross. We ended up at $5-6 per bird that were big enough to be considered roasters instead of fryers. I went in on them with a neighbor who simply wasn’t going to have hunting season interrupted. Even Cornish Cross are getting up there in price for day old chicks. Should be able to keep it down close to $4/bird for fryer sized though.
If I’m going to keep symmetry I need to borrow a couple of bucks.
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