If you thought GMO was bad... Take a look at the new 3D plant based printed meat.

originally posted by: dug88
a reply to: summer5

All I know is, who are the people who fiend for # like caviar, Kobe beef, all that expensive meat based # that'll run you $100 a plate minimum, the # that's rare and endangered but fetches a hefty price for people that want to eat it?

Is it the average person?
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Will the wealthy give up their rare, endangered animal based delicacies and join us eating genetically modified, lab created synthetic protein?

This whole issue of meat damaging the environment and most environmental issues in general just makes me angry.

The average people aren't the ones out there destroying the environment to create and market products nobody wanted or asked for. They're not the ones that create corporate policies that force stores and restaurants to order and produce more food than they need then ban employees or franchisees from giving food away or doing anything other than throwing it out. The average person aren't the people demanding insane amounts of food that never gets consumed.

It's large corporations doing this, it's the same large corporations that guilt people into feeling like they should deal with these problems, while they # with your head to sell you more garbage.

A huge majority of the environmental damage, pollution, carbon issues and nearly every other mass scale problem with the earth's environment is not caused by the average person.

Just saying, Kobe beef just refers to the area it comes from(still farm raised, albeit pampered). Caviar is now also extensively farmed. We domesticate what we like. Always have, always will.

a reply to: summer5

Shhhh. This is how we get rid of vegans, who contribute the most when it comes to noise pollution.

There are almost 100 million cattle in the USA, alone.

They are bad for the environment:
Cattle expel methane from both ends and poop a lot, much more than humans. This contributes significantly to green house gas emissions.
Scientists Underestimated How Bad Cow Farts Are

Cattle use a considerable amount of land for grazing and exercise. Also, land is needed for feed stock, such as corn and soybean as well as enormous amounts of water.
Cattle

Many of these animals suffer severe cruelty during their lifetime, as well as when they are taken to slaughter.

I agree with the 3D printed substitute. In some years 3D printed food will be indistinguishable from eating the flesh of a slaughtered animal.

As far as eating bugs, instead of eating them cooked whole as many people in the world do, they can be ground up and added to other foodstuffs for the protein they provide. People wouldn't know if they were eating bugs or not unless they read the product label, of course.

originally posted by: AutomateThis1
The "elites" won't eat this #. They'll force us less fortunate folk to eat that crap, while they continue to eat their natural, organic meat.

I don’t consider myself elite but I will say once my family was financially well off one of the biggest changes was that we could pretty much eat whatever we wanted whenever we wanted and cost was not an issue. We have a few high end grocery stores here and the food is so completely different than regular stores it’s almost shocking. I’m talking produce and meats. Anyone that cooks a lot knows what I mean. The regular grocery stores have the lowest quality most mass produced fruits & veggies and have lost all normal flavor. Even freaking carrots don’t taste like carrots anymore. Don’t even get me started on the meat, so much of it is pumped with water and salt and God knows what else. Sorry folks but chicken breast should not be the size of human breasts!

But back to your point, which you hit the nail on the head. People that have money will spend it on natural wholesome products, which unfortunately always seem to be out of reach for the average Joe.

I saw a documentary about that a few years back. I do not recall what it was called. But, "We'll be eating bugs in a generation or less," was one of the main focus points. reply to: vonclod

Can they use the printer to produce animal horn too for far eastern markets? Save Africa's rhino

a reply to: PorteurDeMort

Depends on the caviar. White sturgeon are still poached here for their caviar despite them being endangered. It fetches a higher price than the farmed green sturgeon caviar.

originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
Can they use the printer to produce animal horn too for far eastern markets? Save Africa's rhino

Black markets...

originally posted by: CopeLongCut

originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
Can they use the printer to produce animal horn too for far eastern markets? Save Africa's rhino

Black markets...

if the poachers can get trained up with the tech then the world's rhino can be saved, elephants too

originally posted by: ufoorbhunter

originally posted by: CopeLongCut

originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
Can they use the printer to produce animal horn too for far eastern markets? Save Africa's rhino

Black markets...

if the poachers can get trained up with the tech then the world's rhino can be saved, elephants too

OMG!

Its future...

"It’s made of our $hit, you know," Vance dryly replies. "That’s the base material that we use in our replicators. We deconstruct it to the atomic level and then reform the atoms."

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It will be interesting to see when we see it coming... many invention ideas comes from sci-fi movies/series.

originally posted by: summer5
I don't know about you, but printed meat? Really? It looks absolutely gross.

First of all, it's not meat, it's fake meat, as it's made from plant products.

Second, have you seen the way some animals are slaughtered? That's really gross.

PS: I am not a vegan or vegetarian.

Very well. Killing an animal will be just like killing a human in a few decades.

a reply to: eManym


They have one purpose if that purpose went away, they would be wiped out for all the reasons you mentioned.

I have been to the ranch I get my meat from they are free range, grass hay and grain fed, if you buy local and from the source you will find 9 times out of 10 they are not mistreated as each cow is vital to their staying in buisness.

Its the big box major companies that try to mass produce beef, its a worse cut and you are more likely to find mistreatment as the numbers matter more than the product.

a reply to: summer5
As much as I don't like the idea of substituting my steak for fake 'meat products' and insects, I'd much rather eat those than Pagpag:

Pagpag is the Tagalog term for leftover food from restaurants (usually from fast food restaurants) scavenged from garbage sites and dumps. Pagpag food can also be expired frozen meat, fish, or vegetables discarded by supermarkets and scavenged in garbage trucks where this expired food is collected.

The word in the Tagalog language literally means "to shake off the dust or dirt", and refers to the act of shaking the dirt off of the edible portion of the leftovers. Pagpag can be either eaten immediately after it was found in the trash or cooked in variety of ways after collecting it.

Pagpag Wiki

In this short video (03:50), the filmmakers follow food from landfill to table, and I must warn, it's rough!

*As a side-note, the finished product doesn't actually look that bad, looks just like Jalfrezi, the 'shop front' hardly tickles the appetite though 🤢



Christian of the 'Ice Age Farmer' Channel on YouTube covers the topic of fake meats and insects a lot, he's worth checking out for those who already haven't done so, here's a link to his channel, I'm unable to embed one of his videos for some reason - Ice Age Farmer - YouTube

Hope this helps?
a reply to: MerkabaTribeEntity

If it tastes good I don't give a damn if it came from a printer. FFS I still buy chicken nuggets every once in a while so if I acted all outraged over this I would be an eff"ing hypocrite.

I ate MRE's almost exclusively for six months straight on one deployment if this stuff tastes better then I am sure I could handle it. At some point Elon or some other group will get us to the stars and this kind of thing may not be great but it will be better than tang.

There are already parts of the world where people are starving. It is not like they have supermarkets. We are all looking at this from a first world country point of view, but we are lucky. Many people will never taste a steak in their life as it is so I doubt they would turn something like this down.

Can I have another bowl of Soylent Green? To serve man.

a reply to: summer5
Maybe if they had this stuff on the Nebuchadnezzar cypher wouldn't have betrayed the crew.

It doesn't look that gross, not much different than most lunch meats and it looks better than spam. No disrespect to all the spam lovers out there.

a reply to: eManym


We have lots of land and lots of energy to produce feed not an issue.