You thought Agent Orange was just for Vietnam Vets (and of course the millions of Vietnamese we sprayed and whose land we poisoned), but no! Monsanto (now Bayer) and Cargill and DuPont (now Corteva) are here at home to make sure it’s not only Boomers who die from their literal poisons!

The real cancerous growths were the friends we made along the way!

“You never even found my posterior labial nerve!”

I’m in Germany right now, and it’s crazy how much more smoking of cigarettes there is than in the states. I hadn’t realized how much it’s disappeared in the US until coming here and smelling cigarettes everywhere

First off, this article is about the growth scaffold, and the entire breakthrough was achieved by not using an animal-based one:

Recent research has yielded a promising advance in cultivated meat production that could materially improve scalability and cost-efficiency. Scientists at University College London have developed a method to convert yeast left over from brewing into edible scaffold material on which animal cells can grow, offering a potential alternative to expensive synthetic or plant-derived scaffolds and helping address one of the biggest bottlenecks in cultivated meat manufacturing.

Secondly, there are a bunch of plant-based, FBS-alternative cell feeds (‘nutrients and growth factors’) on the market, and pretty much every lab-grown meat company out there is either already using them or moving as much of their production to them as possible, for a number of reasons.

The world is never going to stop eating meat, but the sooner we move to cultured meats instead of slaughtered farm animals, the sooner we significantly lower the amount of animal suffering and environmental impact.

I’ve found a lot of non-religious vegans who object to meat consumption on the supposed grounds of animal cruelty, also oppose lab-grown meat.

One of the the arguments I’ve seen used in the past is the high water usage and emissions of early lab-grown meat products. Once development brings those down, like in this case, I’ll be interested to see whether they still remain anti-meat.

Once you strip away sentience, you only really have ‘living entity’ left, which plants also are.