Yeah, gotta keep slaughtering innocent animals. That's the Murican way!
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Let's add a side of animal cruelty to all of the racism and bigotry.
Mississippi God Damn.
For what reason? The last time a checked lab meat cost 3 thousand dollars per Kilo. Because it is still experimental. It is not like you can buy it in the supermarket.
We all know that Mississippi is one of the most rational states, so I'm sure they aren't letting their stupid religious beliefs drive their science. /s
Oh, cool. I'm sure this is exactly what the voters needed.
republicans chasing ghosts, episode 2137
outside of silicon valley marketing materials, lab-grown meat is ridiculously expensive or straight up doesn't exist. deer has immune system, grasshopper has immune system, stainless steel reactor full of cell suspension doesn't. in order to prevent entire batch turning into mold or something, every starting material has to be pharma-grade and every operation has to be performed in sterile technique. it's all fine for products like insulin or vaccines where single dose fits easily in sub-mg range, but if you try to price meat like this, it won't be ever competitive for this reason alone.
but it gets worse, because people who try to do that are some random techbros without engineering background. strangely enough, this doesn't matter, because every enterprise of this kind just rides on VC money. predictably, they burn it all. as long as you can attract it, things are good and for that all you need is good pitch. We'll solve single cell meat with nanotechnology! We'll solve single cell meat with 3d-printing! We'll solve single cell meat with blockchain! We'll solve single-cell meat with chatbots!
if you believe these people, world is simple and future is bright. i know many of you all on lemmy do.
i'll say more: these people are selling imagined future where you can save the world in some measure (go vegan), and you don't have to give up anything in the process (eating meat), as long as you Buy Our Product! then there are credulous marks primed for luxurious gay space consumerism, but magic tech that allows for it is just beyond the corner, then they disappear. but people still believe, and are disappointed when they have to make even tiny sacrifice on their own. newsflash dipshit: future won't be convenient
That's an overly negative take. Yes, there are serious challenges to the production of lab-grown meat; Wikipedia provides a good summary. This isn't a business that's ready to take off soon. But humans who are actually smart and do know what they're doing are working to solve these things.
The challenges are serious, and anyone telling you "world is simple and future is bright" about the future of this industry, yeah, that's bullshit. I've never heard anyone say that, and I don't know where you heard that from. It might never be a viable industry. But it's not just a gimmick to keep fleecing VC investors.
it's not a business, it's a set of startup pitches for people who believe in californian ideology. you'll make a great vc, never let reality and limitations of physics and biology get in way of your plans
It would be cool if the could grow an immune system too
we don't even know how little we know about finer details of immunology
but you know that? go and sell this idea somewhere in bay area. it doesn't matter if it's all wishful thinking, i won't stop you, and maybe you'll get to meet Elizabeth Holmes
Sweet can’t wait to be on Forbes 30 by 30
that's the spirit
what I find silly about going "vegan" is that it's roughly 5% of the US population. Let's say you boost it to 10% with all the posturing about saving the planet. Getting 50% of the population to half their meat consumption would have 5x the impact.
Trump utterly destroying the US's economy may very well be the best thing for global warming. No one will be able to afford meat. It's rice and beans for everyone!
yeah it's maximalist and in some ways impractical, not to mention some other considerations like carbon emissions
Why are Republicans always wrong about literally everything? Oh, that's right. Faith-based belief system instead of a reality-based belief system.
Protecting their ridiculous regressive views of how the west was ~~won~~ exploited via cattle and oil. They all want to protect their landowners that control huge chunks of farm and grazing land, and a significant chunk of that land is used to feed cattle. Get rid of the need to feed and raise cattle and Big Donors might be upset.
"How can we throttle evolution?"
"Hold my beer"
Hold my bear. 🧸
I only want my meat to be raised by a cow on a feedlot while covered in manure and constantly smelling so awful, I would gag if I ever went. Then I want that cow's greatest mental stimulation to be the one time he climbed on top of the 1 meter pile of manure and could see further than any other cow, and then proceed to stick his head back into the giant trough of corn that's been pre-mixed with antibiotics because corn is not a natural food source for cows. That's what meat is supposed to be, as god intended.
Let's drink swill milk [Wikipedia] to that.
The swill milk scandal was a major adulterated food scandal in the state of New York in the 1850s. The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year, 8,000 infants died from swill milk.
Swill milk referred to milk from cows fed swill which was residual mash from nearby distilleries. The milk was whitened with plaster of Paris, thickened with starch and eggs, and hued with molasses.
Swill milk dairies were noted for their filthy conditions and overpowering stench both caused by the close confinement of hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cows in narrow stalls where, once farmers tied them, they would stay for the rest of their lives, often standing in their own manure, covered with flies and sores, and suffering from a range of virulent diseases. These cows were fed boiling distillery waste, often leaving the cows with rotting teeth and other maladies. The milk drawn from the cows was routinely adulterated with water, rotten eggs, flour, burnt sugar, and other adulterants with the finished product then marketed falsely as "pure country milk" or "Orange County Milk".
Aaahhh the good ol' 1850 to which the Republican party surely will return us by next year where rich assholes can destroy the world for an extra dollar
sounds like the people owning these 'farms' actively try their hardest with all their might to be as evil as possible
What the absolute fuck.
Just an FYI: In Florida (at least) a similar bill was passed not because of any concerns about lab-grown meat but because loads and loads of rich people keep small amounts of cattle on their property which gives them massive property tax breaks (money that most of these counties desperately need). There's literally over a million cows living like cow kings in Florida.
I get what you're saying about factory farms but I just wanted to point out the truth: While those conditions are common for other farm animals I'm not aware of it being that common for cows (in the US) 🤷
As far as I know the factory farms that are like that are all related to poultry and swine (the people that run them).
While cows are not factory farmed at the same rate as other farm animals, over 70% are raised in factory farms (in the US).
Source (they used USDA data): https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estimates
"free market" republicans strike again
Freedom is when the government tells you what you're allowed to buy (assuming it passes safety standards, anyway)
What safety standards? Those are getting the ax, too
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How did they define lab because that could result in a hilarious ban of commercial farms.
Probably from its original birth certificate.
Leave it to one of the lowest education scoring states, that most folks actively flee, to do some dumb shit.
Lab-grown meat killed my mom...true story, lab-grown meat broke into her house and stabbed her 957 times with a fork.
Lab grown meat turned me into a newt
https://tapintoindustry.com/target-industries/food-manufacturing/
Agriculture [in Mississippi] is a major industry.
Mmmhmm. Looks like Mississippi has a cattle rancher industry association. One would imagine that that group isn't too keen on competition from meat from a lab.
We Represent Mississippi's Cattlemen
Mississippi Cattlemen's Association is focused on addressing local, state and federal issues that impact the long-term viability of cattle farming in Mississippi.
From the article:
Mississippi’s agriculture commissioner, Andy Gipson, has criticized the cultivated meat industry, and he supported a 2019 bill that prevented cultivated meat products being labeled as meat in the state. In 2024 he published a post on his website that commended the cultivated meat bans in Florida and Alabama. “I want my steak to come from farm-raised beef, not a petri-dish from a lab,” he wrote.
Sounds like Mr. Gipson isn't too keen on that lab-grown meat either. First is was just labeling, and now it's outright banning.
Let's look into Andy Gipson's biography!
https://www.mdac.ms.gov/agency-info/about-andy-gipson/
Andy Gipson serves as Mississippi’s eighth Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce.
Uh huh.
Gipson has owned and managed a cattle operation in Simpson County for more than 20 years and a tree farm since 2004. He is a member of the Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association and the Simpson County Development Foundation.
Well, now, there's a coincidence. He happens to be part of the industry and the industry advocacy association that he's regulating. Sure is a small world!
Meat industry lobbyists: 🤑🤑🤑
... Big Meat?
Mississippi always has toilet paper stuck to its shoe.
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