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Bill Gates and Richard Branson Back Startup That Grows 'Clean Meat' (bloomberg.com)
A large global agricultural company has joined Bill Gates and Richard Branson to invest in a nascent technology to make meat from self-producing animal cells. "Memphis Meats, which produces beef, chicken and duck directly from animal cells without raising and slaughtering livestock or poultry, raised $17 million from investors including Cargill, Gates and billionaire Richard Branson, according to a statement Tuesday on the San Francisco-based startup's website," reports Bloomberg. From the report: This is the latest move by an agricultural giant to respond to consumers, especially Millennials, who are rapidly leaving their mark on the U.S. food world. That's happening through surging demand for organic products, increasing focus on food that's considered sustainable and greater attention on animal treatment. Big poultry and livestock processors have started to take up alternatives to traditional meat. To date, Memphis Meats has raised $22 million, signaling a commitment to the "clean-meat movement," the company said.
When are we gonna get clean shit?
-- no pun intended --
Geeez, Americans spend that much on hamburgers every hour.
Every time I see Richard Branson's name now, I just want to punch him in the face. It all started when my company replaced a certain amount of medical benefits with that stupid Virgin Pulse, track your steps taken each day crap. May the flees of a thousand camels infest your armpits!!!
Explain.
Can we please have some labelling laws so this thing can't be legally called "meat"?
There's enough problems with processed food already. Here we have a processed thing that did not even start from being food.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Present them!
We're trading cleaning up our environment for eating food that mother nature never intended us to. By no means am I an expert, but I'm concerned and I'd like to read a study that has not been sponsored by the industry hawking the product. I want an objective study.
I'll only consume clean meat if it is produced with clean renewable energy. It'll cost 382 dollars per pound but fuck it's the planet dude.
Since it tastes terrible, and even worse on a grill, it is no substitute.
Until I see I an energy balance, carbon foot print, and waste products I will not use it.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Beat yur meat?
Eat to the beat?
Pudding involved somehow?
Trump sexcapades captured on video by Putin!
Grab yur meat or I will darling!
I think Mr. Herbert had it right. We should start the engineering at the animal level and shoot for a creating a mindless animal that grows continuously without movement. Just shovel garbage in one end and slice meat off the other.
The slig is an awesome idea!
"Microsoft meat" sounds about as appetizing as cockroach pie.
Does it include an EULA? It might really end the user.
Table-ized A.I.
I'll buy it. ...
If it's cheaper and/or tastier than murdering animals.
Jerome: It tastes familiar
Ted: Beef?
Jerome: No
Linda: Chicken? We’ll take chicken.
Jerome: [Shakes head.]
Ted: What does it taste like?
Jerome: Despair.
Ted: Is it possible it just needs salt?
Like Tampering with Mother Nature... Especially when it comes to food. I assume there is 50+ years of testing and real world study to prove its "Safe"? (As if...)
Yeah yeah look eco-authoritarian, when you harvest and clean all of the fruits and vegetables you eat, planting it and harvesting it with tools you made yourself, cooking and canning it over an open fire and wear it's skins while you gather nuts and berries, then come back and act all vegan on us.
That garbage works both ways. I did have the decency to fix your spelling error with "fire" too.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
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-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Well, it's no surprise to me seeing Cargill and Gates as investors here. I am however surprised that Branson is getting in on tech that can be adapted for population control.
How long until completely organic fleshlights become available?
Asking for a friend...
The trend for "organic" food goes along with the trend for "clean eating", and the subject of this story says that too.
"Organic" food consumers are not focused on environmental friendliness - typically the production methods allow use of old-fashioned pesticides like copper sulphate (which persists in soil and is toxic in large quantities) and over-fertilisation with manures that cause runoff into watersheds and it is often transported long distances. Those who eat "Organic" food that is not local are deluding themselves that they have a lower environmental impact on the world.
"Organic" food is about seeking purity, about hygiene in personal life, in feeling that the consumer of the "organic" food is preventing themselves from being contaminated by the world around them. It is elitist food for the isolationist, elitist richer consumer.
So this "clean meat" is just meat for the hygiene-obssessed elite.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled"
Actually no, assuming you can better source the raw materials and can operate in closed bioreactors, vat meat would be so-so from a environmental perspective. Slicing off tumor meat tubes is a different kettle of fish though.
Millenials want real food.
No growth hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, no Listeria, E-Coli, not washed with chlorine?
Disgusting!
That wants to be eaten. Whose instincts have been carefully honed to feel that being eaten and enjoyed is the best thing that could happen to it. And make it articulate enough to express its desires. HHGTTG.
That wants to be eaten. Whose instincts have been carefully honed to feel that being eaten and enjoyed is the best thing that could happen to it. And make it articulate enough to express its desires. HHGTTG.
That already exists: the American voter
They will actually believe they demanded that...You tell anything to Millennials and they will f@cken take it like a CNN news crossbred with gospel bible. Dumbest generation of all. No sense of survival, living in a f@# bubble ... Bread by gov to be YES generation.
Go outside and slap Millennia in the face. as hard as you can, will he fight back? Fuck no, he will tweet about it and Instagram it, next thing you know there will be 5 other Millennias waiting to be slapped, because selfies with black eye are the "thing"
I think he smoked his breakfast.
How come none of these rich inventors/businessmen talk about overpopulation? Maybe they do and I missed it.
Is it not a valid and perhaps interesting to just ask:
'How many humans are we going to have with us on earth?'
'Does the earth have a maximum carrying capacity for humans and their internet?'
So he is going to grow cancer tumors om industrial scale and sell them as meat. Very nice organic product!
We KNOW from this thing called SCIENCE that diet impacts the development of humans. In fact we can see that today because we have people and countries in extreme poverty who have crap diets. We know from evolutionary biology that diet has played a role in our evolution, and have plenty of SCIENCE to back the impact.
I never claimed that this lab meat would cause mysterious illness, you pulled that statement out of your ass because you believe in a religion and rational thought is scary to you.
I said I would wait for the science to see the impact because we lack any such science at this time. You on the other hand believe your deities and religious leaders. Hence your attempt at insinuating that wanting to see real science on the subject is "pseudoscience". Proving that you know a word, but have no clue what it means.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Imagining a pit of flesh like substance screaming "kill meeee"
So, I can finally eat human without society looking down on me?
So the test tube chicken rumors are true :-/
If it doesn't involve the killing of an animal then I want no part of it. Animals MUST die so that I may eat half and throw the other half away.
The most disgusting thing I have eaten recently is the "beyond meaty" burger at our local chain. As gross as eating raw meat and a repulsive as eating something that has been processed and reprocesses. Like eating vegan " pink slime " http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...
the ecological cost of the meat industry (mostly methane) is just one aspect of why i dont eat meat anymore , few videos of cualty in slaughter house was another ,another one is all the garbage they shoot animals with (my dad was a master butcher , i know a bit on the subject) , all in all i'm not going back to consuming animal proteine exept for cheese and eggs
I work in Agriculture, the demand for Organic, Free Range, etc is totally overblown. The market demand is not what media makes it sound like. I have a family member who owns an Organic chicken house, their supplier just dropped the organic line for lack of demand. People do not care as much as this article makes it seem.
no nono blue screened meat thank you
and does this meat carry windows 11 in nano bots that report telemetry?
ask asians
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Colombo, Ceylon
February 1971
>> The food of the Gods
It's only fair to warn you, Mr. Chairman, that much of my evidence will
be highly nauseating; it involves aspects of human nature that are very
seldom discussed in public, and certainly not before a congressional
committee. But I am afraid that they have to be faced; there are times
when the veil of hypocrisy has to be ripped away, and this is one of
them.
You and I, gentlemen, have descended from a long line of carnivores. I
see from your expressions that most of you don't recognize the term.
Well, that's not surprising - it comes from a language that has been
obsolete for two thousand years. Perhaps I had better avoid euphemisms
and be brutally frank, even if I have to use words that are never heard
in polite society. I apologize in advance to anyone I may offend.
Until a few centuries ago, the favorite food of almost all men was meat -
the flesh of once living animals. I'm not trying to turn your stomachs;
this is a simple statement of fact, which you can check in any history
book....
Why, certainly, Mr. Chairman, I'm quite prepared to wait until Senator
Irving feels better. We professionals sometimes forget how laymen may
react to statements like that. At the same time, I must warn the
committee that there is very much worse to come. If any of you gentlemen
are at all squeamish, I suggest you follow the Senator before it's too
late....
Well, if I may continue. Until modern times, all food fell into two
categories. Most of it was produced from plants - cereals, fruits,
plankton, algae, and other forms of vegetation. It's hard for us to
realize that the vast majority of our ancestors were farmers, winning
food from land or sea by primitive and often back- breaking techniques;
but that is the truth.
The second type of food, if I may return to this unpleasant subject, was
meat, produced from a relatively small number of animals. You may be
familiar with some of them - cows, pigs, sheep, whales. Most people -
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am sorry to stress this, but the fact is beyond dispute - preferred meat
to any other food, though only the wealthiest were able to indulge this
appetite. To most of mankind, meat was a rare and occasional delicacy in
a diet that was more than ninety-per-cent vegetable.
If we look at the matter calmly and dispassionately - as I hope Senator
Irving is now in a position to do - we can see that meat was bound to be
rare and expensive, for its production is an extremely inefficient
process. To make a kilo of meat, the animal concerned had to eat at least
ten kilos of vegetable food - very often food that could have been
consumed directly by human beings. Quite apart from any consideration of
aesthetics, this state of affairs could not be tolerated after the
population explosion of the twentieth century. Every man who ate meat was
condemning ten or more of his fellow humans to starvation....
Luckily for all of us, the biochemists solved the problem; as you may
know, the answer was one of the countless by-products of space research.
All food - animal or vegetable - is built up from a very few common
elements. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, traces of sulphur and
phosphorus - these half-dozen elements, and a few others, combine in an
almost infinite variety of ways to make up every food that man has ever
eaten or ever will eat. Faced with the problem of colonizing the Moon and
planets, the biochemists of the twenty-first century discovered how to
synthesize any desired food from the basic raw materials of water, air,
and rock. It was the greatest, and perhaps the most important,
achievement in the history of science. But we should not feel too proud
of it. The vegetable kingdom had beaten us by a billion years.
The chemists could now synthesize any conceivable food, whether it had a
counterpart in nature or not. Needless to say, there were mistakes - even
d
...it' people. Bill Gates and Richard Branson are funding it -- of course it's people.
Bill Gates and Richard Branson invite you to eat their meat!
False equivalency and appeal to ignorance, followed immediately by another appeal to ignorance. We DO NOT HAVE any long term studies from this artificial meat. The future is definable once we have facts, but you have NONE! There are no long term studies on animals for eating this stuff either. Perhaps you are so stupid you believe that diet has no impact on children, but we have SCIENCE that proves that it does have impact. Here is a very simple product for you to investigate to prove me correct and you an ignorant and inconsiderate prick who is fine with people being harmed by your belief in religion. prenatal vitamins
You then jump right to a false equivalency, and repeat the same appeal to ignorance that can be proven wrong with SCIENCE. How about comparing this meat to a product like Cigarettes, which were advertised for the better part of a century as beneficial to your health. Do you see how ingesting cigarette smoke, or perhaps red dye #5 might be more similar to eating food grown in a lab? Oh, probably not. Your priest class may burn your eyes out for reading such heathen speak.
You follow that brilliance up with a flat out lie. I'll bet you start bragging about your 80 IQ to back that crystal ball reading statement up though. Perhaps you read it in one of your religious pamphlets your masters gave you to worship. I'm sure they told you all about their prophesy that naysayer heathens would speak out against your religion.
You then move to another false claim, and you demonstrate it's falsehood in your second sentence (though you are probably not smart enough to understand that part). Another false claim, and the grand finale is the old appeal to emotion. Your masters surely know what's best for you, no need for self think and all that.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
..if you know what I mean
dominate the top of slashdot since the elections or at least it looks like that, i almost miss back in the days of soviet slashdot and .firstpost
so what do the vegans have to say on this ? i mean ... its GMaterial but its not really "harming" animals ... ??!?
is this okay or not ? according to you lot ? but you lot doesn't live here does it ... even the slashdotians from arcturus and beyond seemed to have moved to deeper places ... i cant blame them ... a bit of cock and yo mommas ass is always fun but its been a literal shitstorm of bad genitalia puns or maybe im just reading all the wrong posts ... is this because its one of the last sites where you can use the words without being censored or banned or is it part of the trumpian offense to ban all thought originating in the upper brain ? (you know where the lower brain lies, you mention it about 100 times in the first two posts)
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?