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Beyond is made from plants; it's a meat substitute that looks and tastes like meat. This stuff actually is meat.
A lot of people are hoping for lab grown steak or other luxury foods made by labs, but I personally will be happy if we just get some good lab grown ground beef where I can't tell the difference from regular beef when making burgers and tacos. And hopefully it will one day be a cheaper option in stores than regular beef. >

That's my opinion too. If it's cheaper and more environmentally sustainable than meat (and preferably plant-based), then I will be more than happy to make burgers, tacos, chili and more out of it. This could be a game changer in how humanity eats, and really change many lives for the better. I can't wait.  
EDIT: I think I phrased this wrong. I meant "if it's cheaper and more environmentally sustainable than both meat and plant-based". To that point, I've tried a number of plant-based and while I love the idea and I'm glad it exists, I don't like the taste enough to pay extra for it. Sorry to the cows dying to feed my ass :( >

Cost is a really big issue for me. I know that Impossible burgers are hit or miss for people, but I think they’re pretty good. The problem is that it’s currently $6 or $7 for just two frozen patties. Thats insane! >

The hit-or/miss phenomenon you mention has been fascinating. It really makes you think about how differently people perceive things. I heard so many rave reviews and anecdotes from people I trust about how they are supposedly indistinguishable from real beef. How disappointing it was to find out they tasted vaguely like raw tomato paste from a rusty can, or at least they did to me. I’m looking forward to the lab-grown option. >

I actually enjoy the taste of plant based meat options, or at least more than you did, but you know what actually threw me off the most?
The texture. It's reasonably meaty in texture but the patties were uniform in texture in a way real meat just isn't.
That being said, I'd actually buy them more if they weren't a good 25-30% more expensive than actual beef >

Most of the plant based meat options are loaded with fat. They are just gross processed food, of the addictive variety, that's killing people. >

Fat = flavor.  Fat also doesn't have the bad reputation it used to in dieting.  My issue with the plant based meats are the carbs (i.e. sugar), which I generally try to avoid or keep to minimum. >

Yeah i should have said fat, sugar, salt. 
But IMO if you are going to eat fat there are healthier ways to get it. That taste better than this fake meat as well (but that last is just my opinion). >

Oh, I don't disagree.  I was just pointing out that a high fat content is likely pretty important for fake meats to taste good or similar to real meat. >

This seems like a poor choice of words for the title, lol. >

The more I read it, the creepier it gets. >

It's all the same to your stomach >

/r/wheresthebeef is the sub where people are keeping track of this technology. >

Would have guessed it was about people arguing with each other heh >

That's /r/Subredditdrama >

No that's The Donald >

Florida and Texas will ban it. >

Wyoming is now into banning new tech >

All 500,000 of them.
There are frats bigger than that. >

And they still get two Senators >

Just like Stateslyvania >


Just one country, Singapore, has so far approved the product for retail sale. But the United States is poised to follow. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in November that a cultivated meat product - a chicken breast grown by California-based UPSIDE Foods - was safe for human consumption.

I mean Singapore and the FDA being the only ones aren't exactly shooting my confidence through the roof, let's be real. >

Can’t wait for the conspiracy theories linked to lab-grown foods. “They are engineered to make people infertile” >

Birthrate is going to sky rocket in the rural area's of the British Isles without all those sexy sheep strutting around. >

People are forgetting that you also don't need meat in every meal. I have no doubt it's contributing to many Americans' health problems. >

I’ll be happy if it’s actually similar.   The meat industry is terrible both In Treatment of animals and for the environment.    
If I can get a lab grown brisket that’s smokes the same or ribs to bbq I’d be down to make a switch. Even starting with ground beef,  steaks or chicken breast would be a huge leap.    
But what are the repercussions on other industries like leather.   Leather alternatives are almost always less durable and create a ton of plastic pollution. >

The demand for leather is far less than the demand for meat. If meat became a byproduct of leather production because we switched predominantly to lab grown meat, we would still be doing much better than we are now, in terms of environmental impact. >

I'm not opposed, but I always think of that Better Off Ted episode where they have their lab grown meat taste tested and the guy says "it tastes like sadness." Lol >

Fuck I wish that show didn’t get canceled. >

So the lab grown meat has legs and it will eventually arrive on our tables!? >

I’m curious about the health side. How does growing it in a lab change it, and how would that affect the consumer >

For one, there won't be diseases and tumours and fecal matter all over it. >

It'd worked well for. Tilipia >

It's going to be fucking glorious. Designer steak perfectly marbled with fat - wagyu is going to be no big deal at some point. >

I am extremely excited
I won't be happy until every McDonald's has their own chicken vat and extrudes fresh mcnuggets for every order >

In twenty years, it will be the only thing you can afford. >

Hopefully. Domestic livestock account for 60% of all mammal biomass on earth. We make up 36% and wild animals are 4%. They are the leading contributor to climate change. It's completely unsustainable. >

The world switching to 90% lab-grown meat would make more difference than switching to 90% electric vehicles!
But lets do both, asap! >

I would %100 try this meat. On a longer timescale, it gives me hope for overfishing and the trade in endangered animal meat--we don't even know what kind of fish we're actually eating half the time anyway--if we can just get more traditional customers on board about it being real meat. Real fish without the mental image of all the damn parasites thanks reddit? Hell yeah. On the shorter time frame, I really enjoy meat, but I don't feel great about the lives these food animals live, or the toll factory farming takes on our environment. Can it be scaled up to the point we can have our misery-free steak and the industry can profit off it, too? I guess we'll see. 
My other thought is can I have a small household bioreactor in the garage next to the party fridge and grow me own meat? Because that would be pretty cool. >

Yeah, I'm not eating this shit. >

Have they done effects on the body with these? Such as does it absorb and digest the same in the human body? >

Hehehehe so long as it remains a choice. >

My only concern is this is corporate-driven. I am all for technology to help solve any problems but I am sure we are getting the short version on how this is created. Hey, fast food is created in a kitchen-lab with all its chemistry included. Not that the current method of getting a steak on everyone's plate is in the best interest of consumers either because it is not. Hope this is a better, cleaner alternative all around. >

I'm personally very excited for this, especially if it gets proper investment and ends up cheaper than conventional meat. Why spend the money and effort and time raising and taking care of livestock when you can just pour nutrient broth into a tank and adjust some dials now and again? Why dedicate something like 80-90% of our arable, fertile land to growing feed crops for livestock just so people can have their Big Macs every day?
I expect the corn lobby to fight lab meat tooth and nail, though. >

I have stupid terrible food allergies,so I can't eat current meat alternatives or even real poultry.
Maybe I'll finally be able to eat not-chicken? I don't know, but I'm willing to eat the vat beef. >

I've always been allergic to nuts but have recently developed a problem with gluten and barley, so now i'm eating more meat than ever. This sucks because I would really like to be at least vegetarian but my vegi options are now severely limited.
I need that fake meat to feel better about my diet. >

Hey, if it tastes good and is a comparable price to meat, I would try it. >

If it tastes the same/better I don’t care where it came from I’m sure it’s sterile or at least edible. I’m sure there’s still kinks to workout as well. >

I’m so excited for this! >

I can just see Tucker Carlson's face now. >

Fucking an m&m? >

Looking forward to seeing how the Q folks react to this. It's going to be insane, but which flavour of insane? >

pork flavored >

Even if it tastes nasty I'll prefer it to real meat. I can't keep living with the guilt of knowing I'm contributing to the mass suffering of animals. >

You could go vegan now? You're already 200000 steps ahead of the average person who isn't willing to make a small sacrifice on taste to not contribute to the mass suffering of animals. >

I need the protein unfortunately. Tried it once for a month and was miserable. But once I'm in a better life position, I'm definitely redoubling my efforts to go vegan. >

Here's an article regarding protein on a vegan diet. At first it takes a little bit of time to sort out how to do it but then it honestly ends up being the way you eat. I'm an endurance athlete and coming up on a year following a vegan diet. I've seen no change in my performance. There are more athletes going plant based all the time and often with performance gains. If they can do it the average person will also succeed. I don't know your life position but I urge you to swap out some meals you would normally be eating meat with a plant based meal. Beans and tofu have become our family's staple for protein. If you are US based Aldi has the cheapest tofu. >

Thanks for this. >


meat grown in massive steel vats could be on the menu within months

Sounds kinda gross, but yay for months!

Along the way, they must overcome a reluctance among some consumers to even try lab-grown meat.

I wonder why?

Cultivated meat is derived from a small sample of cells collected from livestock, which is then fed nutrients, grown in enormous steel vessels called bioreactors, and processed into something that looks and tastes like a real cut of meat

Can’t wait! >

I’d certainly think something grown in a steel vat is safer than something grown in a literal field of shit the way cows are typically kept. >

A cow's body (specifically the 4 stomach chambers) is designed to live in that environment and keep the meat healthy. A steel vat, while probably very sterile, leaves room for some lazy-ass minimum wage fuck-up to not properly sterilize the lab-grown meat equipment and taint a whole batch with E. Coli. >

Cow's shit all over themselves while they are being slaughtered.  And they have shit in their intestines.  
The most common way to get an E. coli infection is by eating contaminated food, such as: Ground beef. When cattle are slaughtered and processed, E. coli bacteria in their intestines can get on the meat. Ground beef combines meat from many different animals, increasing the risk of contamination >

I never said "cows prevent the transmission of E. Coli.". I used E. Coli as the example of what an irresponsible human actor could potentially let occur. While my point about the cows being, that their bodies have been genetically adapted over time to keep the animal healthy autonomously. >

People are way cleaner than nature. That's why we have medicine, antiseptics, pasteurization, etc. >

Isn't it well known that livestock are basically given antibiotics just in their feed because it's assumed that they're sick and probably need it anyways? Cramped and unsanitary conditions are perfect breeding grounds for disease. >

One day, real meat will only be affordable by the rich. >

Sounds like something from attack of the killer tomatoes. >

Does lab-grown meat cells come originally from a single cow/ox? Do all of them have the same DNA if tested? It's very Utopic to think eventually people would be eating the same creature over and over for years.
I really hope religion doesn't poke their fingers in this technological advance. >

"We no longer enslave animals for food purposes."
-Commander Riker in TNG, and hopefully us all soon >

Can they make it have less cholesterol? >

Probably, but why does it matter? Eating cholesterol doesn't raise your cholesterol. >

Ironically, it’s carbohydrates that raise your cholesterol. Because your body will use the simplest energy(sugars/starches) to fuel your body first. Guess what happens to the more complex energy, it gets broken down and stored as fat on your body and in your bloodstream. >

We will have to wait a few more years after to see it on lunch plates or breakfast plates though >

This technology coupled with hydroponics could make large cities selfsustaining and allow for swathes of agricultural land to be returned to a natural ecological state. Now one of the big hurdles to achieving that is corporate greed, as I doubt they would give up their farmland for something in the spirit of our national parks. >

You mean ALL our food being controlled by Amazon >

People who go, “Ew! It’s grown in a lab! I’ll never eat that!” have never seen where their meat currently comes from >

I’d be all for it, if it had the taste and nutrients to support my carnivore ass. >

Wait till they can do mastodon, tiger, and other shit you can’t legally or feasibly eat “the natural way!” >

ITT: dumbasses that don't realize it's meat and not genetically modified foods; it just grows freely (and thus infinitely) in a vat, not constrained inside the skin of a critter.  Otherwise, the meat-cell does what the meat-cell does: divide.  And we just let it.
L2learn. >

I wonder if there will be minimum cooking time or whether it can be eaten blue or rare. >

I read only half the title “Lab-grown meat moves…” and was starting to freak out. >

This is how the zombie outbreak starts >

Gross! Call me when it doesn't move. >

But it doesn't mooooove.... 😄 >

So excited for when this happens. I will 100% switch to full lab grown and plant based only the moment it becomes available and affordable! >

Not in my house. I’ll never eat new world order synthetic soy bullshir meat. >

I'm glad you understand what this is at all. Thank you for your informed opinion. >

Mmmmmm!
Meat grown in a Petrie dish. Like bacteria! It’s how cheese is made! >

That makes me wonder, is all lab grown meat inherently a forcemeat? >

This is so awesome. I'd love to get to using a mix of lab grown meat and meat from local farms in my cooking. >

If it tastes feels and has the same nutrition the only thing I want to see next is cost.
I also think it would be cool if they could give us better than current lab grown meat.
Like make a filet mignon but the size of a porterhouse. >

Be careful what you wish for my friend.
After you open that door, damn Tik-Tokkers will be touting blueberry & pinto bean infused "meat", (lab grown monstrosities). >

Y'all got anymore of those synth BBQ ribs? I'm totally down >

Oh God, it's moving on its own?!?! >

Good to know. Today: sausages, nuggets & burgers.
Tomorrow: chops, cutlets & steaks. Just give it time. >

I volunteer as tribute >

When you say it moved...do you mean on it's own? >

And you can keep on moving. Adios. >

I kind of wonder how hard it would be to make lab-grown eggs that were cultured to be much healthier to eat. >

Did the meat escape the lab and is now crawling into people's homes? >

I'm gonna feel so lucky that I went vegan for the animals before the lab-grown revolution rather than after, when I grow older with much lower heart disease risk.
Of course, the moral benefit of lab-grown meat will be massive, outweighing everything else. But the best plant-based meats on the market are already absolutely amazing, fooling experts, with zero cholesterol and something more than zero fiber. And (although this doesn't happen to everyone) flesh started to smell disgusting to me after six months or so without it. >

Meat substitutes ain't fooling anyone. Not that they're bad, there are some that can do a quarter decent burger. Which is good. >

Well, if "not anyone" means zero people, then your thesis is falsified: I love a wide variety of plant-based meats, and pig flesh on a grill smells like something akin to vomit. Not lying to you, dude. When my gut changed, my senses did too. >

It's not a thesis, you aren't an expert and you don't remember what meat tastes like so you're not in a position to judge. That being said plant based imitation meat is lightyears ahead of where it used to be. At least it's better than vegan cheese. That is just plain gross. I dunno, maybe that's something that can't be gotten correct without some sort of genetic engineering. >

It’s not moving closer to my plate.   I can tell you that.  😂 >

This means Elon can have semi-real chicken and steaks on his way to Mars... >

will never land on my plate🤢 >

Why not? >

Lab grown meat is forever looming, moving closer and closer. Motives unknown. Intent: malice. >

You’ll have a bunch of idiots say it’s not healthy, like they do with the exaggerated effects of eating inorganic produce or the evil GMOs!!11 >

Can we (humans) just stop bastardizing our food....please? >

There are lots of good reasons to support this technology. It’s literally identical to meat, except an animal never has to die to produce it. If the technology becomes good enough and cheap enough, it could massively reduce animal suffering and factory farming, not to mention allow people easier access to meat. And hey, for those people who would insist on eating real animals, a market could still exist for that, but there might be a lower demand and therefore more space and better conditions for the animals while they’re alive.
I see zero downsides. >

It seems like 10 years ago, they told us lab meat was only five years away from going mainstream. Five years ago, they told us two years. So forgive me for remaining skeptical of any claims that it's just around the corner...
And in the meanwhile, traditionally farmed meat is one of the largest producers of greenhouse gases, and the single leading cause of deforestation. We kill far more animals in a single year than the number of humans that have existed in our entire history as a species, and every one of those animals is capable of feeling pain and fear. And out of any profession, slaughterhouse employees have among the highest rates of both workplace injuries and PTSD.
And there's something we can all do about that right now. Not in a few months, or a year, or whenever lab meat takes off. Right now, we can all go vegan, or at least greatly reduce our meat consumption. Don't wait for the easy solution. Make a small personal sacrifice for the sake of trillions of animals and our entire goddamn planet. >

I just don't want to eat humans anymore. /s >

No chemicals there at all but cArBon >

Cant wait for all the conspiracy theories and scenarios Maga supporters will come up with once they read this >

I will only ever care if it's cheaper and on par with real meat. >

Good lord! Not only does lab-grown meat move, it actually want's to be eaten! >

Just wait for the conspiracy theories to come out in force: you know they'll say it's made from aborted babies, or it will modify your DNA, or you'll be swallowing microchips. Also, can lab meat be certified Kosher? >

I went ham on a Beyond Burger and nearly shat my brains out later. I’m definitely skeptical of this lab grown stuff. I’d rather reduce my meat intake than touch that shit again. >

The stuff we have now is completely different. It's faux meat. This is actually meat. >

Isnt that what beyond meat is?