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Most People Would Give Lab-Grown Meat a Try, New Survey Reveals (sciencealert.com)
Clive Phillips and Matti Wilks report via ScienceAlert: In a recent survey, published this month in PLOS One, we investigated the views of people in the United States, a country with one of the largest appetites for meat and an equally large appetite for adopting new technologies. A total of 673 people responded to the survey, done online via Amazon Mechanical Turk, in which they were given information about in vitro meat (IVM) and asked questions about their attitudes to it. Although most people (65 percent), and particularly males, were willing to try IVM, only about a third said they would use it regularly or as a replacement for farmed meat. But many people were undecided: 26 percent were unsure if they would use it as a replacement for farmed meat and 31 percent unsure if they would eat it regularly. This suggests there is scope to persuade consumers that they should convert to IVM if a suitable product is available. As an indication of this potential, 53 percent said it was seen as preferable to soy substitutes. The biggest concerns were about IVM's taste and lack of appeal, particularly in the case of meats seen as healthy, such as fish and chicken, where only two-thirds of people that normally ate them said that they would if it was produced by in vitro methods. By contrast, 72 percent of people who normally eat beef and pig products would still do so if they were produced as IVM.
I'm 60.
Perfectly happy to try it, in fact, looking forward to it a great deal.
You might want to argue that I don't have a brain in my head, or that I'm stupid, but I don't think you can make your case. :)
Lots of very good reasons to want this to work out.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
why not? i am sure the "gmo = scary" crowd will be against.
If they could make a passable burger or steak that tasted good, I'd opt for it. I won't give up meat , but even I would opt for a manufactured option over slaughterhouse meat.
Um, 50 years old and yes I would. Whats more, if it were decent and the texture was close enough I would integrate it into my diet and a normal thing. We already have soy based meats as part of our diet as it is. In the case of a couple of the products I would defy you to tell the difference of it from meat. The product is that good. In the case of the case of the IVM, I like the idea of it far more than an animal being put through what they are only to be killed in the end for my burger. IF there is an option like the IVM that is close to the taste/texture and even double the price we are there. I sure as hell hate the idea of what animals go through to end up on my plate.
eating at Mac Donald's
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I guess I'm not sure the entire market for this are vegans. If they could make good quality meat that tastes good more efficiently than the current method, that might solve a lot of problems.
As for vat grown meat, I agree, so long as it tastes good, but it may have to be served differently just like there's some things very lean meat doesn't work in and others that very fatty meat doesn't work in. For example Kangaroo is not something that can just be cooked up like a beef steak and taste good, it's far too lean, it's better in something like a Rendang curry. Muscle is very complicated so don't expect something like beef or pork.
An interesting thing is how the vegetarian community have embraced quorn, a highly processed food made from vat grown fungus (crumbed and fried it's nice, but once again treating it like meat is likely to dissappoint). I don't know how many vegetarians avoid meat due to dislike of farm practices but those people are likely to be early adopters of vat grown meat.
When it comes down to it familiar, convenient and bland is what most people eat IMHO, myself included from time to time. If you are going to use totally different ingredients I think trying to get them to taste like something else is a mistake but I'm just a guy who likes some vegetarian food every now and again instead of someone who lives off the stuff. Maybe someone who is a full vegetarian who craves meat gets some joy out of tasteless soy chunks in an imitation of a beef stew, but I'd rather have a minestrone (or something else devised without even thinking of meat) if meat is not on the menu.
There's little reason not to try it if you like meat. The decision to consume it regularly would be based on price and quality. The quality could, eventually, be much higher (and the environmental impact much lower) than hoof grown meat.
A blob of meat grown in a vat has no intrinsic need for tendons, bones, silverskin and big chunks of fat -- none of which I want in a steak (but, lab grown bacon better have a lot of fat in it in chunks!). As well, if done right, imagine how perfect the marbling could be!
However, I'm not holding my breath because I'm picky about texture. For example, I refuse to eat, except when I have no options, "press formed" turkey and think the package of meat in the grocery should be required to have a term like "Press Formed" in letters at least as large as the largest used for the word "Turkey" within two font sizes away and that every use of the word "Turkey" should be preceded by the term "Press Formed" (or whatever word the FDA picks to describe this abomination that is sold as "turkey").
Those blobs of meat in the vat better get good exercise to make the texture correct (the good news is that they probably only need to be exercised during the day so solar panels can power the electrodes).
Why is there an "insightful" mod and why isn't it "-1"? If I wanted insight, I wouldn't be reading
You'd think that people would love superior GMO crops that have higher yeild and lower pesticides, but it turns out that we were wrong. Public perception and uninformed opinion unfortunately have a big influence. Once smear campaign might make all the difference on someone buying it or not.
These studies have such a small sample size yet claim "Most people would...".
The Survey Size seems a bit small to be making these sort of claims.
Their Data is fine, but it probably doesn't reflect much in terms of the real world
Unfortunately the bad effects of eating such meat will likely not be known before years (cancers...).
In the mean time I'll stick with good healthy hot dog meat.
What do they use as a feed stock to grow the stuff in the vats? How does the energy profile of the final food compare with meat from living animals?
I've sometimes wondered the same about hydroponically grown vegetables.
As long as it tastes good. And no being close enough or not to bad is not good enough.
Perhaps a prophecy, from Better Off Ted, season 1, episode 2, Heroes about lab-grown meat:
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
the problem with vegetarian curry etc (while very tasty and something I do regularly have) is it doesn't actually satisfy the desire/craving many of us have for a juicy steak or roast leg of lamb or other meat dish which is also why they all try to emulate the taste of meat (badly). Until an offering actually addresses that craving then Meat will continue to be a food of choice for many, myself included.
People always say stuff they don't mean. If it's cheap enough, they'll buy it. It's like fast food, sausages etc. It's full of all sorts of shit. But some people enjoy eating it, and it's cheap. Give 'em no other affordable choice and you'll get a different answer.
So you're saying that most people overcook steaks?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I am sure they would be willing to try it unless their favorite media personality makes a big deal against it.
Stating that it is somehow areligious, or something the deviants who belong to the other party do.
Facts be damn. Listen to the personality who's main job is to entertain not inform.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
What really works for my vegetarian friends are mushrooms. They give that meaty, filling, umami sensation that meat has. Will it taste exactly like a juicy steak? No, but fried mushrooms are pretty damn awesome in their own way.
Eat the rich.
I don't see why the muscle fibers could not be worked artificially, for instance through electrical stimulation.
It's actually a really interesting subject.
Eat the rich.
The relevant issue here isn't age, it's one of the "big five" personality traits: openness to new experiences.
Contrary to intuition, openness to new experience remains fairly consistent over a person's lifespan, only gradually declining starting in your 60s. The reason for this discrepancy is that when you are young, new experiences are mandatory. If you are a young person low on the seeking novelty scale you still have to go out and find your first job. But if you're the kind of young person who would eat a mealworm the docent at the insect museum offers you just to see what it's like, you'll still be doing stuff like that in your 60s.
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