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Vegan Mayonnaise Company Starts Growing Its Own Meat In Labs, Says It Will Get To Stores First (qz.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the first-to-market dept.

Chase Purdy reports via Quartz: The maker of vegan mayonnaise has been working on getting lab-made meat onto dinner tables everywhere. It's just that nobody knew about it. Hampton Creek -- a company that built its name on plant-based condiments and vegan-friendly cookie doughs -- today revealed that, for the last year, it has been secretly developing the technology necessary for producing lab-made meat and seafood, or as the industry likes to call it, "clean meat." Perhaps even more surprising is that Hampton Creek expects to beat its closest competitor to market by more than two years. Since it was founded in 2015, Memphis Meats has raised at least $3 million from five investors for the development of its meat products, according to Crunchbase. By contrast, Hampton Creek -- just a 20-mile drive from its Silicon Valley rival -- has raised more than $120 million since 2011. It's one of Silicon Valley's unicorns -- a company that has a valuation that exceeds $1 billion.

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  1. Those Dirty Tleilaxu... by wideBlueSkies · · Score: 3, Funny

    Growing meat in their Axlotl tanks......

    The Gholas... They're made of meat!

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    1. Re:Those Dirty Tleilaxu... by CaptnCrud · · Score: 3, Funny

      You mean it slig meat, a half slug half pig creature that fed on garbage and body parts.

      I remember the books saying it was thought as the tastiest meat in the known universe (except no one but the tleilaxu knew what sligs were or what they fed on).

    2. Re:Those Dirty Tleilaxu... by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 3, Funny

      roughly 50% of chicks that are born are male, and they are useless to the egg industry, so they are killed usually by being ground up alive or by being suffocated using carbon dioxide, which is fairly slow and unpleasant process.

      Third wave feminists are sponsoring research to see if the process can scale up to include human males.

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  2. Re:What's the point... by Captain+Linger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but they're a tiny bit labor and resource intensive. With lab grown meat, you might be able to grow yer own on the kitchen counter top.

    But then it turns out that the $300 meat machine you bought could've just been replaced by hand squeezing the meat packs you buy.

  3. Re:What's the point... by Scarletdown · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm a long term member of the other PETA... People Eating Tasty Animals. And there is a place for many of nature's creatures; right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.

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  4. Re:What's the point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nobody who uses teenybopper words like "libtard" has ever been in the same area code as a live farm animal.

  5. Did you know by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    dyslexic jihadists get 27 vegans.

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