Florida House Republican Ryler Sirois introduced a new bill on Monday, aiming to make it illegal to manufacture, sell, hold, or distribute lab-grown meat within the state.
Sorry to burst your bubble but it’s decades away if it’s even possible. The current process involves putting animal cells in a bioreactor(vat) with nutrients and having them propagate. It’s hitting hard limits on scaling though because the larger the vat the harder it is to get waste out and nutrients in without some sort of vascular system. Even if it did scale it’s not producing steaks or even meat chunks, it’s just making meat cell slurry that’s mixed with a bunch of other stuff to make something like beyond burger but with some actual “cow” cells for probably 3 times the price.
It took evolution billions of years to efficiently make complex multicellular structures, humans are a long way off.
It also took evolution billions of years to make a meat computer that can do math, but we took some sand, purified it, doped it, and used it to make thinking machines in a tiny fraction of that time.
Making things biologically and making things with silicon and plastic are two completely different animals. Were far off from making something to simulate the brain in all it’s parts, much less making a biological one from scratch. Same thing with a chicken leg, we can make a robot chicken leg that does all the functions of a chicken leg, but you probably wouldn’t want to eat it.
Sorry to burst your bubble but it’s decades away if it’s even possible. The current process involves putting animal cells in a bioreactor(vat) with nutrients and having them propagate. It’s hitting hard limits on scaling though because the larger the vat the harder it is to get waste out and nutrients in without some sort of vascular system. Even if it did scale it’s not producing steaks or even meat chunks, it’s just making meat cell slurry that’s mixed with a bunch of other stuff to make something like beyond burger but with some actual “cow” cells for probably 3 times the price.
It took evolution billions of years to efficiently make complex multicellular structures, humans are a long way off.
It also took evolution billions of years to make a meat computer that can do math, but we took some sand, purified it, doped it, and used it to make thinking machines in a tiny fraction of that time.
Making things biologically and making things with silicon and plastic are two completely different animals. Were far off from making something to simulate the brain in all it’s parts, much less making a biological one from scratch. Same thing with a chicken leg, we can make a robot chicken leg that does all the functions of a chicken leg, but you probably wouldn’t want to eat it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lab-grown-meat-approved-for-sale-what-you-need-to-know/
Fair point.