Current Events > Singapore is the first country where cultured meat is available to the public

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Several enterprises have been working on developing cultured meat for several years now: real meat that is grown and harvested from animal stem cells without having to slaughter animals, in an effort to provide an alternative meat source that does not harm animals or adds to climate change.

The American-based company Eat Just has been granted regulatory approval in Singapore to sell cultured meat, grown from chicken stem cells developed in a plant-based serum.
This is the first time regulatory approval has been given anywhere to sell cultured meat.

As for the costs: although one of the challenges so far has been to keep the costs low, the fact that a plant-based serum is used in growing the meat means that the price of cultured chicken nuggets will be close to that conventional chicken products.

Eat Just aims to lower the price further and to focus on developing cultured beef next.

This is a huge step toward reducing the growing bio industry.
Over the past decade or so, as more people wanted an alternative to eating meat because of climate change and animal cruelty, more and more meat substitutes have become available, though very few of those products actually managed to taste like 'the real thing', whereas cultured meat actually is the real thing, while still providing an alternative to meat that harms animals and damages the environment.

Other companies throughout have been developing cultured meat as well, some of which are ready to supply restaurants with their products. It is expected that more of them will gain regulatory approval within about 5 years.

https://www.fooddive.com/news/eat-just-lands-first-regulatory-approval-for-cell-based-meat/589907/

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/singapore-issues-first-regulatory-approval-for-lab-grown-meat-to-eat-just.html

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Can any Singas weigh in on this?

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What about lab grown human meat

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Cultured meat is grown in a lab where scientists play opera music and read Thoreau to it.

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Fucking Disgusting

This just isn't right

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Looked gf posted...

What about lab grown human meat

In vitro maturation of human cells already exists, though for better of worse, that is not for eating.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Cultured meat is grown in a lab where scientists play opera music and read Thoreau to it.

Yeah, I always wondered why it's called that in English. In my native language it translates as 'cultivated meat', or 'growable meat'.

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Aressar posted...

Yeah, I always wondered why it's called that in English. In my native language it translates as 'cultivated meat', or 'growable meat'.

Growing cells in a lab is called culturing. Etymologically, it comes from the Latin cultura, meaning cultivation

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itachi15243 posted...

Fucking Disgusting

This just isn't right

Many would say the same about meat gained from slaughtered animals. One of the main reasons cultured meat is developed is to stop, or at least cut back significantly to needless animal slaughter and confined unhealthy living conditions for animals.

Tbh I think cultured meat is a solution where everybody wins: those who are worried about climate change and animal cruelty gain a solution, and people who really want to eat real meat can eat all the meat they want, as cultured meat is in fact real meat.

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itachi15243 posted...

Fucking Disgusting

This just isn't right

This is more disgusting than eating animals that are slaughtered?

itachi15243 posted...

Fucking Disgusting

This just isn't right

factory farming and torture that would make the holocaust looks a babby's first genocide isn't right

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Eat Just sounds like a knock-off of Just Eat.

Which is funny, considering the topic.

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Not gonna lie, it sounds kind of creepy to me. Is it less morally wrong then killing animals? Yeah. Still though...creepy.

i'm all for it, hopefully it reaches the usa soon

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Interesting

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I'm 100% for this, and hope it becomes cost effective and tastes exactly like the real thing.

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Grischnak posted...

Not gonna lie, it sounds kind of creepy to me. Is it less morally wrong then killing animals? Yeah. Still though...creepy.

Somewhere I can understand that people are unsure about it, since it's a relatively new way of creating meat. However, if it's a matter of thinking it's unnatural, that is not that big of an obstacle to overcome, as the same applies to lots of things that are now common, like smartphones.

So far taste tests have shown it to be perfectly safe, and equal in taste and quality to conventional meat.

https://www.mosameat.com/blog/2019/9/20/our-latest-taste-test

https://youtu.be/QO9SS1NS6MM

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Ill have the cultured blt, hold the t

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I'll gladly eat this if it means we no longer have to slaughter innocent animals.

Cows and pigs are quite nice.
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Looking forward to trying some of this, especially when the cultured cuisine is expanded. Some enterprises like the Dutch company Mosa Meat have already successfully grown beef burgers and mince. And American company Finless Foods even grew cultured fish meat.

More complex and specific textures like steak will prove to be a much bigger of a challenge. But even if cultured mince, burgers and nuggets were to enter the mainstream food market, that alone to significantly lower the need for a big bio industry as we know it today.

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I just read another article about this, great stuff and a huge step in the right direction

Can't wait for this to get widespread approval

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I looove meat. I don't love that animals have to die for me to eat it. If this lab grown meat turns out to taste good, and if it's healthy longer-term, I'll switch to it.

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I heard/read about this throughout the years. Glad to see it's getting somewhere. It may look like just another eco-friendly fad to some, but I genuinely think this could grow to become one of those things that actually makes the world a healthier place. Hell, this could even make the difference for some countries in achieving their Paris Climate Accord goals.

Will definitely be keeping an eye on this. Might invest in it once more places are allowed to sell it.

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SoIidLegacy posted...

I heard/read about this throughout the years. Glad to see it's getting somewhere. It may look like just another eco-friendly fad to some, but I genuinely think this could grow to become one of those things that actually makes the world a healthier place.

Definitely, I think it'll be pretty big.

Even Tyson and Cargill have stakes in one company working on this, Memphis Meats

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CaptainMarvel95 posted...

This is more disgusting than eating animals that are slaughtered?

yes, the fuck is wrong with you lol


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Continuing that march away from agriculture as we know it.

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Cool as fuck and wonderful if we can stop slaughtering so many innocent and intelligent animals constantly. The meat industry is fucking cruel.

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Love meat, but hate the meat industry.

Meatless meats and lab-grown meat like this are the future IMO. Can't wait for them to be cheap enough to put them on par with real meat products, price-wise.

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Aressar posted...

This is the first time regulatory approval has been given anywhere to sell cultured meat.

For reals? Lab-grown meat has been commercially available in Brazil for a while now, I had a burger at a place with that kinda meat last year or so

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only boomer brains would be against this tbh. there's no reason to slaughter animals when cultured meat becomes widely available (assuming it tastes the same and its safe) except that it "feels wrong" or you just don't like change, aka boomer brains

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sauceje posted...

For reals? Lab-grown meat has been commercially available in Brazil for a while now, I had a burger at a place with that kinda meat last year or so

Are you certain it was cultured meat? Would be great if business is already up and running there, though I can't find anything about Brazilian cultured meat.
Do you remember the name of the company that grows it?

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CaptainMarvel95 posted...

This is more disgusting than eating animals that are slaughtered?

Yes, at least you start with something living there.

This is up there with human genetic manipulation, cloning, and 3d printing organs to me. Makes me want to vomit

You're not eating meat like this, you're eating something made to be meat. It's not natural


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Or I could just eat real, natural meat as God intended.
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I wonder if people who think this is disgusting also think its disgusting that they're also looking into stem cells to grow organ replacements for people

"Hell no! Give me someone's actual liver instead!"

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itachi15243 posted...

You're not eating meat like this, you're eating something made to be meat. It's not natural

And mashed up meat slurry that gets reformed into shapes, laced with synthetic colors, preservative chemicals, and flavorings is?

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LostForest posted...

And mashed up meat slurry that gets reformed into shapes, laced with synthetic colors, preservative chemicals, and flavorings is?

More natural than this

I don't even typically eat meat as I used to be a vegetarian that started eat fish and pork here and there but it sound just as, if not more wrong

Especially if they do all of that you just said which will happen.

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Aressar posted...

Many would say the same about meat gained from slaughtered animals.

Its the circle of life.

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itachi15243 posted...

You're not eating meat like this, you're eating something made to be meat. It's not natural

We eat things that aren't natural every day, man. At the end of the day, it's all just proteins and other elements being stuck together in particular arrangements, whether by natural development or lab-grown tinkering, it's the same concept.

We're just doing what DNA would normally do.

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Aressar posted...

Are you certain it was cultured meat? Would be great if business is already up and running there, though I can't find anything about Brazilian cultured meat.
Do you remember the name of the company that grows it?

It was this stuff, now that I look at it it seems to be plant-based not lab-grown, my bad


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itachi15243 posted...

Yes, at least you start with something living there.

This is up there with human genetic manipulation, cloning, and 3d printing organs to me. Makes me want to vomit

You're not eating meat like this, you're eating something made to be meat. It's not natural

Factory farming isnt natural either. Eating hormone pumped tumor machines isnt natural. Buying a steak from a grocery store isnt natural. Nothing about the meat industry is natural whatsoever.

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fucking cool I love it

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Why on earth do they call it cultured?

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Aressar posted...

Many would say the same about meat gained from slaughtered animals. One of the main reasons cultured meat is developed is to stop, or at least cut back significantly to needless animal slaughter and confined unhealthy living conditions for animals.

Tbh I think cultured meat is a solution where everybody wins: those who are worried about climate change and animal cruelty gain a solution, and people who really want to eat real meat can eat all the meat they want, as cultured meat is in fact real meat.

What do we do with the sudden surplus of animals should this become mainstream?

Also, what's wrong with slaughtering animals for food? It's called the food chain, it's not my fault I'm on the top species.
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SquirtleSkwad posted...

Why on earth do they call it cultured?

cultured
/klCHrd/
adjective
Biology
(of tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) grown or propagated in an artificial medium.
"cultured tumor cells"


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nfearurspecimn posted...

cultured
/klCHrd/
adjective
Biology
(of tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) grown or propagated in an artificial medium.
"cultured tumor cells"

I hate connotative and denotative uses of words...

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Aressar posted...

As for the costs: although one of the challenges so far has been to keep the costs low, the fact that a plant-based serum is used in growing the meat means that the price of cultured chicken nuggets will be close to that conventional chicken products.

this sentence threw me for a loop

seeing that keeping costs low was a challenge I was expecting it to be like 4-5x the price of normal meat

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Lord_Wombat posted...

What do we do with the sudden surplus of animals should this become mainstream?

Also, what's wrong with slaughtering animals for food? It's called the food chain, it's not my fault I'm on the top species.

You ramp down production of farmed meat as lab meat takes its place. Its not an overnight transition, you just stop breeding so many damn animals to slaughter.

And slaughtering animals is horribly unethical. Creating sentient life just to kill it after giving it a horribly tortured life is fucked up.

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Lord_Wombat posted...

What do we do with the sudden surplus of animals should this become mainstream?

Also, what's wrong with slaughtering animals for food? It's called the food chain, it's not my fault I'm on the top species.

Initially, that was indeed quite common for as long as humanity has been around. Over the last two centuries however, humanity has grown exponentially, and with it, a higher demand for food, especially in the more luxurious civilizations. The meat industry grew bigger and bigger. More livestock had to be bred and grown faster.

Maintaining continuous generations of so much lifestock is taking its toll on the environment, due to the resources that are required and the pollution it causes.

Then of course there's the matter that a lot of this lifestock is forced to live in painful, confined, stressful conditions, their young taken away to be raised and slaughtered as soon as they've matured enough, or just killed off right away if they happen to be a gender that's not in high demand (usually males).

The reason that there is so much livestock today, is because humans have bred them to such numbers. If there would be a new way to produce meat, without having to continuously slaughter animals, then there'd be no need for that much lifestock. After a generation, the various lifestock species can shrink back to smaller numbers (much like with horses, when cars became mainstream).

This will also significantly reduce the strain on the environment, which in turn is better for all of humanity and life in general. This is the change that cultured meat could bring.

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