that is when meat is grown artificially,
and by taking just stem cells there is no longer any need to slaughter animals, and as a by product, by reducing the number of cattle on the planet the procedure would greatly reduce greenhouse gasses,
so artificial beef burgers it is then! and here is another, artificially produced fish, Selden and Wyrwas’s lab was only established in March 2017,
and as Selden says, “Fish cell culture was really not a thing. Human cell
cultures - we do that all the time and there’s all sorts of papers on animal
culture, but for fish, Brian had to invent a protocol to do that.” The
principle for culturing cells is relatively straightforward. Animal cells can
be obtained harmlessly by biopsy from a living beast, or in the case of
Finless, says Selden, “We have an agreement with the aquarium at the bay that
whenever a fish dies, they call me and I jump in a car, pick up the fish, bring
it back and Brian cultures it up.” By “culturing up” he means feeding the cells
in a solution of salts, carbohydrates and proteins. “Typical division time for
most animals is about 24 hours,” he says. Whether you’ve got two cells or two
tonnes, you’ll have double a day later, although this may get faster,
but wait a second here, has anyone thought this through? take the scenario below,
well that's food for thought!
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