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KFC is working with a Russian 3D bioprinting firm to try to make lab-produced chicken nuggets:
KFC is trying to create the world’s first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets, part of its “restaurant of the future” concept, the company announced. The chicken restaurant chain will work with Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions to develop bioprinting technology that will “print” chicken meat, using chicken cells and plant material.
KFC plans to provide the bioprinting firm with ingredients like breading and spices “to achieve the signature KFC taste” and will seek to replicate the taste and texture of genuine chicken.
It’s worth noting that the bioprinting process KFC describes uses animal material, so any nuggets it produced wouldn’t be vegetarian. KFC does offer a vegetarian option at some of its restaurants; last year it became the first US fast-food chain to test out Beyond Meat’s plant-based chicken product, which it plans to roll out to more of its locations this summer.
Bioprinted nuggets would be more environmentally friendly to produce than standard chicken meat, KFC says, citing (but not linking to) a study by the American Environmental Science and Technology Journal it says shows the benefits of growing meat from cells, including reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption compared to traditional farming methods.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Monday July 20 2020, @12:22AM (4 children)
You might be able to distribute the buildings in or near all cities. Less travel time to get to the customers, less fuel costs, less pollution.
You will still have animal farming on a smaller scale, catering mostly to rich customers. There will still be Kobe beef, Amish-sold products, etc. But the 50 billion hamburgers that Americans eat annually will mostly come from lab-grown meat. All of the veal at the supermarket will be cruelty-free, and so on.
If milk, eggs, etc. can also be replicated with a lab process, then we just won't see animal slaughter on the scale we see today.
In the short term, products made of ground meat will go lab-grown first, since it will be much easier to make those than say, a t-bone steak.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday July 20 2020, @01:45PM (3 children)
I think you need to read "Caves of Steel" again, and this time notice the food supply. This would be a lot better than yeast, but it's the same idea. The traditional SF name for it is carniculture. (It dates back at least to "End of the Line" from the early 1950's, "Methuselah's Children" is the Heinlein take on it.) But I said "Caves of Steel" because of the implications that only human life was at all common. Everything else had been pushed aside to make room for more people.
That said, if they can fix the "beef serum" problem, this might be a good food source on an off-Earth installation. They've got a few problems to solve first, of course.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 20 2020, @07:56PM (2 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat#Production_in_Earth's_orbit [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday July 21 2020, @12:24AM (1 child)
Yes, it *does* say that. But the claim is a bit ... overstated, at least by inference. They had to have brought all the supplies needed to grow the stuff, and those supplies could have included nearly anything. Also, astronauts have to be able to eat nearly anything edible, regardless of taste or texture.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 21 2020, @12:41AM
Yeah, it's probably best described as self-promotion for the Aleph startup like that whiskey in space thing, but it should give the idea more mass.
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