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"Lab-grown meat makers sue Texas over ban on cultivated protein"

The Bread Guy said:
Meanwhile, Big(ish) Cultivated Meat fights back. Seems in the midst of bans & stuff, companies are sharing tech & hooking up with other companies to push, in this case, Cultivated Fat :)
www.foodengineeringmag.com

Backed Into a Corner, Alternative Protein Gets Creative

State legislative bans are targeting ingredients, dyes and cultivated products in 2025. Therefore, the market is forcing OEMs and alternative protein suppliers to get creative in manufacturing, lowering ingredient costs, and even going to market.
www.foodengineeringmag.com www.foodengineeringmag.com
Also archived here if original link doesn't work.
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Precision fermentation
Cultivated fat (lipids, oil, biodiesel)
Renewable ICE fuel.

I would sooner put that stuff into my car than my belly. Assuming it is cheap enough.

Maybe they can get yeast to chomp down on dirty coal and defecate clean diesel.
 
Kirkhill said:
Precision fermentation
Cultivated fat (lipids, oil, biodiesel)
Renewable ICE fuel.

I would sooner put that stuff into my car than my belly. Assuming it is cheap enough.

Maybe they can get yeast to chomp down on dirty coal and defecate clean diesel.
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USDA & FDA seem good with it so far - eat many hot dogs? :)
 
CBH99 said:
OOORRR that if you eat enough of it, maybe you'll just stop aging and stay young forever?

I'm a glass half full kinda guy...



(Maybe you won't die a young & horrible death, but eating bread that doesn't age (that the mice won't even nibble on) probably doesn't decease your chances)
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Ha. What's that quip: two things that will probably survive a nuclear holocaust are Cockroaches and Hostess Twinkies.

We will occasionally buy tortilla bread 'rounds' for wraps and things. They come in a pack and the ones we don't use will sit in the bread basket for months and all's they get is stiff.

Halifax Tar said:
Our Tomatoes didn't do well this year.
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I don't think anybody's did. Our daughter always enters stuff in the local Fall Fair and she said the fresh produce entries were way down this year.
 
Kirkhill said:
I eat hot dogs. I live on sausages. Beef hearts are great. And I also love a nice black pudding with a runny egg.

Feel better? 😄
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So you've practiced free will in choosing to consume what could be of questionable (but tasty) origin. Should not consumers in Texas (and the other states that have blocked cultivated meat like substance) have the choice to purchase "cultivated meat like substance" without interference from "Big Beef" who are undoubtedly a major lobbying presence in the Texas legislature? The first thought that came to mind in seeing this story was the reaction many years ago from the Texas beef industry when Oprah made a comment about not eating a hamburger.
 
Absolutely they should have choice.

They should be able to buy this crap. They just can't call it meat or anything that connotes meat or anything derived from the animal or plant kingdoms, or, for that matter, fungi.

It is a purely chemical confection with indeterminate attributes.

How much does the marketing plan cost?
 
Kirkhill said:
Absolutely they should have choice.

They should be able to buy this crap. They just can't call it meat or anything that connotes meat or anything derived from the animal or plant kingdoms, or, for that matter, fungi.

It is a purely chemical confection with indeterminate attributes.

How much does the marketing plan cost?
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remember years ago when Europe didn't want "Frankenfood" ie Genetically Modified
Well honestly we as humans have been genetically modifying foods for centuries. Cattle, sheep, etc etc
 
OldSolduer said:
remember years ago when Europe didn't want "Frankenfood" ie Genetically Modified
Well honestly we as humans have been genetically modifying foods for centuries. Cattle, sheep, etc etc
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There's a difference between incest and miscegeny and gene splicing. I have my limits.
 
Kirkhill said:
Absolutely they should have choice.

They should be able to buy this crap. They just can't call it meat or anything that connotes meat or anything derived from the animal or plant kingdoms, or, for that matter, fungi.

It is a purely chemical confection with indeterminate attributes.

How much does the marketing plan cost?
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As much as it costs to pay Kim Kardashian to pretend to eat a bite of the lab-grown evil stuff lol

(Note when she supposedly takes a bite of the burger, no actual bite is visible on the burger)


 
CBH99 said:
As much as it costs to pay Kim Kardashian to pretend to eat a bite of the lab-grown evil stuff lol

(Note when she supposedly takes a bite of the burger, no actual bite is visible on the burger)


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To be fair, most celebrities, and many women, including The Queen, do not want to be photographed eating. It's considered undignified. Many advertisers don't show the actual act.
 
CBH99 said:
As much as it costs to pay Kim Kardashian to pretend to eat a bite of the lab-grown evil stuff lol
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Except she's not being paid to pretend to eat "lab grown evil stuff". She's being paid to pretend to eat a "Beyond Meat™" burger. Not lab grown, but field grown (and then processed and assembled in a factory - just like many animal protein-adjacent products, e.g. Spam).

Burger | Plant-Based Burger Patties | Beyond Meat

Beyond Meat burger patties are the iconic plant-based burger patties that put burgers made from plants on the map. They're everything a burger is.
www.beyondmeat.com www.beyondmeat.com
How It's Made
Step one: Gather all the usual components of meat – protein, fat, minerals, carbs and water – but from plants. Step two: Apply heat, cooling and pressure to the proteins. Step three: Bite into a better meal. Yeah, it’s really that simple.

Ingredients
Water, Yellow pea protein*, Avocado oil, Flavour, Brown rice protein, Red lentil protein, Methylcellulose, Potato starch, Pea starch, Potassium lactate, Amino acids (L-lysine, L threonine, L tryptophan), Fava bean protein, Apple extract, Potassium chloride, Pomegranate extract, Vitamins and minerals (niacin [vitamin B3], pyridoxine hydrochloride [vitamin B6], thiamin hydrochloride [vitamin B1], riboflavin [vitamin B2], cyanocobalamin [vitamin B12], calcium pantothenate [vitamin B5], ferric orthophosphate, zinc sulphate), Spice, Vinegar, Beet Red, Carrot powder.
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And, allegedly, some of her earliest video performances would indicate that she was not adverse to a "meat" diet.
 
CBH99 said:
As much as it costs to pay Kim Kardashian to pretend to eat a bite of the lab-grown evil stuff
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You point to something about a plant-based product and use it to rail against artificially grown meat.
Thanks for sharing that you don't understand what you are discussing without telling us that you don't understand what you are discussing.
 
McG said:
You point to something about a plant-based product and use it to rail against artificially grown meat.
Thanks for sharing that you don't understand what you are discussing without telling us that you don't understand what you are discussing.
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My bad, my bad...I had lumped them all together in my head.

(I actually didn't mind the Beyond Meat burgers from A&W. Dated a vegetarian for a year, so I got my fill of em')
 
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