Meat Buyers Scramble After Cyberattack Hobbles JBS

Would like to see this thread continue. But its getting political, plz keep the comments about the most popular prez ever to yourselves.

 

There are people who want us to stop driving gas powered vehicles, the pipeline gets hacked. The same people want us to stop eating meat, the meat producers get hacked.
Two of the four largest meat Packers also make lab grown meats.
Tuesday is Soylent green day.

 

'The Donald' is the former President...the russian government is alledged to have influenced the election(via hacking) that put him in office. Hence the reason I referred to them as The Donald's buddies

 

Cultured meat - Wikipedia

Pretty much growing meat in a petri dish from cells. Give it food, oxygen, water, and manage the pH and temperature levels. In a way, it's like hydroponics or culturing mold and mushrooms. The animal cells will only develop into whatever tissue it is designed to be. It behaves more like mold, since it is a grouping of cells rather than a larger organism made up of cells. A cloned plant will eventually develop roots, stems, leaves, and buds. A mushroom will form a stem, gills, caps, etc. If they are creating muscle tissue, it will stay as muscle tissue, rather than forming bone, blood vessels, organs, etc.

It's a bit more complex, though. They have to use a medium that can act like blood vessels, rather than suspending the cells in a solution and expecting it to handle its own functions. The link above describes it a bit more if you're really that interested.

 

It's kind of far off from hitting the market anyway. It costs entirely too much to produce, and we don't have enough research into the long term effects of consuming it. But I do wonder, if it is proven safe, tastes the same, is just as nutritious, and costs the same as naturally grown meat, then will people still prefer raising animals to slaughter? Unfortunately, I think the answer is yes. Hydroponics suffers from the same stigma as well. Because the nutrients are in a chemical form, some people automatically associate it with other negative chemicals like pesticides and herbicides.

 

Its not far off ... its already available... in fact there's plant based meat already being sold in fast food places like Burger King & McDonald's.. is being sold in grocery stores too it has been for 2 or 3 years..
I personally.... have no use for it being that I grew up on a farm & every thing I haul walks on & off my trailer... but the tree huggers think its great and people that want to do away with red meat because they think cow's cause global warming like the VP think its the greatest think since sliced bread

 

Plant based meats are not lab grown meats. The stuff at the fast food chains are a bunch of blends of grains and legumes, starches, then mixed with coconut oil to marble like animal fats, and beet juice to make it "bleed" when you bite it. Impossible Meats uses genetically modified soy roots to produce heme, which is the type of iron found in animals and blood.

It is really hard to prove that these products are healthier and reduce global warming. But one thing that is undeniable is that animals feel things just like people. They care for their young, and feel pleasure, pain, grief, etc. It's unfortunate that they do not get the rights we take for granted just by being human. The rights they do get are really made up on a whim by people who don't seem to think it through. People can't raise roosters to fight to the death, but they can kill them to eat them. The idea that people can do what they see fit with animals and the laws against animal cruelty seem to be contradictory.

In another thread, a dude said he'll whack a heifer in the face with his baseball cap if it gets stubborn while loading. We don't walk around whacking each other with baseball caps when people get unruly, or we're not supposed to. All this animal was doing was trying to resist being stripped away from their family and life. These animals are basically kept in concentration camps until they are ready to be slaughtered. They're not given nice, plush lives until they reach old age.