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I Voted for John Fetterman. He Betrayed Supporters Like Me.
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He's also strangely against lab grown meat.. which I just flat out don't understand. It's unproven on whether or not it's even economically viable... and PA is famous for scrapple. So I mean.. calling anything else slop is confusing.
It's a well known fact that Republicans like killing animals. Just ask Kristi Noem
Why wouldn’t it be economically viable?
I remember reading this article on the subject and finding it interesting: https://archive.ph/8xyWx
My terrible summary of that article is that it's really hard to turn cell goop into something that is recognizably hamburger. There's a shitload of structure to meat so you have to make the cells do their "turn into this part of a cow" thing. That's been really difficult to scale up. One shortcut you can take is to use actual animal meat as a starter, but then you're no longer making vegetarian meat, and I seem to recall there being some other issue with that.
I really want lab grown meat to work, but I'm losing hope.
If we made a continuously long chain of meat using artificial cells, at what point is is it just the cells? Or is it still the Meat of Theseus?
On paper it totally should be. I mean, you're not growing animals, just the parts you want to eat in a vat.
But well, in actuality it may follow the same path as vertical farming.