Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It’s the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It’s the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
I wonder if it would be considered vegan? Technically not harming an animal, right?
It depends on whether you consider the conditions under which the original cells were donated as part of the product.
Yep, to me it really depends on the welfare of the animal donors and the circumstances around donation.
To be honest it feels like making perfect the enemy of good if the initial cell lines able to support billions of cows worth of meat without killing those cows at the sacrifice of a few cows in the first place. But there are plenty of idealists out there who would reject that train of thought, so oh well.
But we’ll get there either way.
Sure but vegans can already eat other food just fine without needing this.
Many many vegans very much want others to stop eating meat as well. Notably because there’s no ethical way to eat or consume almost anything under veganism until animals aren’t being exploited for it. What’s more, even many non-vegans would be happy with that world, I for one would be extremely happy in a world where we can produce synthetic versions of animal products.
The issue is a little more complex than “vegans can just eat other things”
Yeah I agree I’m just saying:
Some lab grown meat companies have figured out how to do it without any animal cells, but it’s a fairly new development. Requiring actual animal cells is just v1
Things move quickly though, there is already non-animal whey being created that is chemically equivalent to dairy whey using the same process they use to make insulin. Check out Coolhaus. They also make cream cheese and a babybel cheese with it I think
That would be ideal, it would be possible to consume meat keeping cruelty free standards. Hopefully it will happen soon.
I can see how you can make fake meat without animal cells - but this class of food is ‘lab grown meat’. When you don’t have animal cells it’s no longer lab grown animal meat.
edit: I guess there is a difference between using animal cells during ‘production’ and during ‘development’. I CAN see how the former can be achieved, but not the latter.
@GordomeansPhat Difficult to say… hopefully it will be possible to trace the animal donors.
@creedda