A few years ago, they ate the first cultured burger patty. It was terribly expensive, but the cutlet looked like meat. The idea was not to kill the poor animal, but to biopsy him like a hospital and grow a whole bunch of cutlets from the resulting cells.
The process was very complicated, it was necessary to isolate stem cells, place them in the right environment, feed them, force to divide and even mechanically stretch so that the muscle understands that it is a muscle and gains well weight.
The main idea was not to slaughter the cows. But to grow the cells, they first had to use the blood of dead calves. The vegetarians didn't like it.
In addition to a nutrient medium made from calf blood, artificial meat had to be watered and fertilized with all kinds of hormones and growth stimulants. It turns out that hormones are prohibited on livestock farms, and chemicals must flow like a river to produce clean, sterile meat. And there are not only hormones, but also a bunch of antibiotics. Because there is no immunity in a test tube with artificial meat. Such meat will easily rot.
It should be noted here that it will not work to grow a piece of meat. A normal muscle needs blood vessels and some kind of internal framework. Artificial meat is more like mashed potatoes or soup spread over a plate.
It can be harmful
At first, it was about the fact that such meat is just safer, because it does not come into contact with the environment, worms, manure and other infection. Even in our time, a huge number of people are dying from intestinal infections that catch from meat.
On the other hand, test-tube-grown meat grows uncontrollably. There may be some kind of cancerous tumor that looks like meat. And people will eat it. The devil knows how this thing will be digested and affect our body.
The future belongs to plants
In short, all of this is complicated, unreliable, suspicious and expensive.
Now, without artificial meat, vegetable protein is enough. All sorts of pea sausages and other substitutes have been fed to vegans for a long time, and they seem to survive. Soy is often shoved into meat products, so you don't even need to invent anything. Everything has already been worked out.
If you think that soy sausages are unusual, then think of some horse meat or guinea pig meat. Did you eat them? This meat has been eaten in some countries for thousands of years. Test-tube meat will be even more unusual.
It looks like we will get more soy sausages.
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