Cultivated chicken approved in Singapore
Discussion
Read that Singapore has approved lab cultivated chicken as safe for consumption and can be sold. Apparently quite expensive but the manufacturer working to make the process more efficient. Aim is for it compare with real meat.
Would you eat it? I can imagine that for many processed foods eg sausages and pies it would be hard to tell the difference (not many people seemed to realise they were eating horse rather than beef in their Tesco lasagnas!)
Seems like a very good thing to me. Cheaper, cleaner, doesn’t involve industrial raising and killing of animals, no overuse of antibiotics, fewer greenhouse gases, no run off of s
t and chemicals into waterways.
I doubt it will replace animal grown meat completely - I severally doubt you could replicate the texture of the best steak, which depends upon the structure of the flesh and the fat marbling - or even what the animal ate during its life - but if it significantly reduces livestock but still allows us to eat meat it seems positive to me.
Would you eat it? I can imagine that for many processed foods eg sausages and pies it would be hard to tell the difference (not many people seemed to realise they were eating horse rather than beef in their Tesco lasagnas!)
Seems like a very good thing to me. Cheaper, cleaner, doesn’t involve industrial raising and killing of animals, no overuse of antibiotics, fewer greenhouse gases, no run off of s
t and chemicals into waterways. I doubt it will replace animal grown meat completely - I severally doubt you could replicate the texture of the best steak, which depends upon the structure of the flesh and the fat marbling - or even what the animal ate during its life - but if it significantly reduces livestock but still allows us to eat meat it seems positive to me.
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