• Wanderer
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    6 months ago

    That’s genuinely gutting.

    I thought and still think this will absolutely revolutionise the world and cause repair of the environment. But it looks like the market doesn’t have faith in this.

    first lab-grown beef burger debuted in 2013 at a staggering $330,000, they still need to fall to under $10 per kilo — roughly a tenth of current costs — to be competitive in the mass market

    The amount that has fallen, in that time, compared to the amount remaining seems like it isn’t that much.

    Hopefully we just a little jump in the industry enough to build some hype and get things rolling again.

    • Philosofuel@futurology.today
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      6 months ago

      there are still some major challenges though. Not insurmountable, but challenges nonetheless. One of the most interesting I found is that you need to protect the meat from bacteria and fungi. A animal has an immune system (and a host of antibiotics pumped in to them). A piece of meat growing in vat hasn’t. But it does have optimal conditions for growth of bacteria. So you need a clean lab environment. That’s possible, but very hard to scale up.

      I think the hype was there, but now is the moment the industry needs to mature and make it work in a way.