I'm not asking this to rain on the parade - I love what these guys are doing but I have a question about their process and the ethics of it.
So in order to grow the meat, they have to culture the cells in bovine fetal serum, which they get from cow fetuses on their way to slaughter. My question is how much meat is grown per fetus?
> Cell-grown meat, I told him, would be spurred on by synthetic serums refined from the crude system currently used, where cells are bathed in fetal bovine serum. The serum, which promotes cell growth, is collected from the hearts of calf fetuses found in pregnant cattle gone to slaughter.
You entirely missed the context of that quote, which was preceded by "vegan meat replacements today, meat grown from cells tomorrow."
"Cell-grown meat" isn't what Beyond or Impossible are doing - what they are doing is "vegan meat replacements," replicating the taste of meat using vegetable sources. Neither company is trying to grow real meat from cell cultures in a lab, which is what you're talking about.
As far as I know cell grown meat is not quite a viable product yet (hence the "tomorrow,") but there are many companies and organizations researching the topic to try to make it a reality. In contrast, both Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are existing commercial products that are mass produced and widely available in grocery stores and restaurants.
>In December 2020 its lab-grown chicken became the first lab-grown meat to receive regulatory approval in Singapore. Shortly thereafter, Eat Just's cultured meat was sold to diners at the Singapore restaurant "1880", making it the "world's first commercial sale of cell-cultured meat".
So in order to grow the meat, they have to culture the cells in bovine fetal serum, which they get from cow fetuses on their way to slaughter. My question is how much meat is grown per fetus?
> Cell-grown meat, I told him, would be spurred on by synthetic serums refined from the crude system currently used, where cells are bathed in fetal bovine serum. The serum, which promotes cell growth, is collected from the hearts of calf fetuses found in pregnant cattle gone to slaughter.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/mar/14/impossible-burg...