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Dutch firm Meatable can turn pig stem cells into sausages 60 times faster than farmers can rear pigs. (tech.eu)

submitted 8 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This stuff was basically ready to go minus scaling up two decades ago. They were still working on adding marbling and texture into steaks that could fool you in a blind test, but amazed it’s taken this long to get to sausages.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think you got your timing wrong. The first prototype of cultured meat was presented 2013 and costed about 250.000 € back then. "Minus scaling up" was and is a pretty big issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/05/world-first-synthetic-hamburger-mouth-feel