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Look forward to lab-grown burgers and steaks!


Me too. Aside from the environmental improvements, there's some pretty cool stuff they could in theory do with this tech. Making consistent, perfect cuts of meat with little waste. It's early days, but this is pretty promising tech and I'm excited to see where it goes.


Cool: perfect wagyu-level steak cubes

Not so cool: advertisers will subsidize your steak if the marbling looks like their logo


Does it make economic sense to grow wheat, oil and sesame seeds in a lab? Let alone ketchup


Wheat has far less value per square meter. Haven't run the math, but generally the higher the value of the good, the more viable growing it indoors is.

Shouldn't need a very large warehouse to grow a meaningful amount of beef. Presumably the lifecycle/turnover on that square footage is much faster too


If those processes can be refined to be more efficient than they are in nature, then yeah, why wouldn't it?




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