Lab-Grown Meat

The cluster focuses on debates about lab-grown or cultivated meat, covering its ethics, efficiency versus traditional farming, potential affordability, sustainability, and humorous speculations like human-flavored meat.

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Sample Comments

moribvndvs Aug 18, 2023 View on HN

Will I be able to eat lab grown human meat?

Hitton Aug 9, 2019 View on HN

Lab grown meat can't come soon enough.

ReactiveJelly Jul 9, 2022 View on HN

Maybe if it's lab meat. Otherwise it seems inefficient to grow food for animals instead of just growing food for humans

basementcat Dec 5, 2020 View on HN

If there was a lab grown meat that tasted like human, would it perpetuate an unhealthy obsession with cannibalism?

samuelbalogh Jan 10, 2025 View on HN

why should we wait for lab grown meat if we can go vegan right now?

seiferteric Aug 27, 2017 View on HN

Sounds like a perfect application for lab grown meat.

drchaos Apr 9, 2018 View on HN

If it is tasty and affordable, why not? Almost everything we eat nowadays is already highly optimized through selective breeding over thousands of years, so adding lab-grown meat does not make our food less "natural" than it is already. On the other hand, lab-grown meat will probably use much less resources compared to traditionally produced meat, while not causing any issues with regard to (bad) treatment / killing of actual animals.

TrainedMonkey Oct 6, 2016 View on HN

Why not directly go to vat grown or 3d printed meat?

krtkush Oct 22, 2017 View on HN

My bet is on lab produced meat.

boo_boo Aug 18, 2020 View on HN

In what world is lab-grown meat production more efficient than cattle farming?