I read it in the business section of the Times last week!
I'd read something similar a few weeks ago about this which massively warmed my heart and calmed my nerves.Good article on beefcentral.com about the failure of lab grown faeces and how it will never be grown cheap enough on a large scale to compete with beef. Investors pulling out and a lot of money getting lost! Yippeee
All it will take is one or more Elon Musk types to take this to the next level of mass production and it will be game over. With the billions of Dollars being thrown at alternative proteins there will almost certainly be big producers competing against real meat and milk fairly soon and it will ramp up from there. Never underestimate the ability of science and commerce to overcome developmental problems, especially with so many resources, pressure groups and politicians supporting it and churning out the negative propaganda against conventional animal production.I'd read something similar a few weeks ago about this which massively warmed my heart and calmed my nerves.
Cell-based disruption: How many factories, and at what capacity, are required to supply 10% of the meat market?
If the cultivated meat industry were to set the ambitious target of supplying 10% of the global meat market, how much product would be required? How many factories, containing how many bioreactors, would need to be built? And where?www.foodnavigator.com
I was actually extremely worried for the future of the planet until I read this a couple of months ago (courtesy of Faceache: credit where it's due, not credit to Faceache obvs but someone shared it and I saw it as a result of Faceache). I'd even gone to the trouble of buying some shares in a company that's involved in all this sh it, call me pragmatic. I'll be delighted when those shares are worthless. I'd no idea the wheels would start to come off the bonkers bandwagon so soon however. It only seems like yest when the Duck was shouting at everyone for not throwing themselves off the nearest bridge over this.
One swallow doesn't make a summer of course, there's a huge amount of money in all this and some companies might somehow make it to market and make some noise for a while (just look at the Beyond Meat share price chart's slow but steady decline boo hoo, not lab meat but similar point). I'm less worried than I was.
Does anyone have the Times article in a sharey format please?
Did you read it? Disposable bioreactors. Jesus H Christ.All it will take is one or more Elon Musk types to take this to the next level of mass production and it will be game over. With the billions of Dollars being thrown at alternative proteins there will almost certainly be big producers competing against real meat and milk fairly soon and it will ramp up from there. Never underestimate the ability of science and commerce to overcome developmental problems, especially with so many resources, pressure groups and politicians supporting it and churning out the negative propaganda against conventional animal production.
The thing is that they will never reach 10% of all meat production because may countries will just not be interested and will not countenance any for a second. However, if they were to reach anywhere near 10% of the market in Europe or America or both, it would be highly disruptive to all real meat sales and markets everywhere.Did you read it? Disposable bioreactors. Jesus H Christ.
Thing is, reality will hit eventually when they realise that all of the measures they're bringing in have fekk all affect on climate change but they're running out of food that is affordable and doesn't make everyone obese and sick.The thing is that they will never reach 10% of all meat production because may countries will just not be interested and will not countenance any for a second. However, if they were to reach anywhere near 10% of the market in Europe or America or both, it would be highly disruptive to all real meat sales and markets everywhere.
They could achieve this by 2030 or fairly soon after and they needn't even do it by undercutting current meat price, because you may have noticed that the social pressure against cows and meat is being rapidly increasing even as we type and that will continue to intensify. Also the UK at least seems to be intent on increasing producer costs by both taxation and policies to make meat and milk production uneconomic in the medium term, forcing or 'steering' farmers to give up, diversify and/or plant their land to trees or to regress into wilderness.
They know, of course, that substitutes are required. They just can't price animal protein out of the market without offering an alternative food product which they are already promoting as being acceptable and indeed desirable even before it is marketable. From 10% of the European and American market, it then potentially, almost inevitably becomes a slippery slope as real meat is further vilified and alternative production methods are ramped up worldwide at an exponential rate.
That is a look into the future if things carry on as they are.
Well quite. But what you're missing there is that it's ALL about the money.I can remember when they were proposing injecting dairy cattle with bst there was a great hoo ha that the general public wouldn't find it acceptable but now we are supposed to accept that the general public will be lining up to buy lab grown filler? (Because it's not meat is it)
Yes probably, though not inevitably. In any case, I'm afraid it will be too late by then as the cattle and vast areas of grassland will have been 'retired' to be replaced by two or three massive corporations that will be totally vertically integrated from raw material to the supermarket shelf. There is plenty of this going on already as you know and they only need to get rid of the bottom rung, the farmer/producers, to have total control of the food market.Thing is, reality will hit eventually when they realise that all of the measures they're bringing in have fekk all affect on climate change but they're running out of food that is affordable and doesn't make everyone obese and sick.
I can remember when they were proposing injecting dairy cattle with bst there was a great hoo ha that the general public wouldn't find it acceptable but now we are supposed to accept that the general public will be lining up to buy lab grown filler? (Because it's not meat is it)
Please tell me Boris and Princess Nut Job will be part of the trial.I am starting conspiracy theories that the lab grown meat has drugs in it that turn the population into transgenders who can't breed so the world population will half and save the planet! Any other conspiracies most welcome. Let's get ahead of the game on this!
A sheep's fart is worth a cows sh1tAll about cows ain’t it , what about sheep they fart as well ?