Artificial meat: the US will feed them the whole world instead of Russia
Soon, the problem of hunger on Earth can be solved in the most cardinal way. Just one drop of muscle juice, taken with a syringe from a cow, pig, sturgeon, chicken, bear, ostrich or crocodile, placed in a special reactor - and at the exit you can get a juicy steak, without having to kill the animal. Unbelievable? But today, dozens of companies in the United States of America work on this field, who are threatening to feed all of humanity laboratory meat.
It should be clarified that this is not about “meat” made from plant components, which can be tasted in developed European countries. Scientists are working on the creation of "meat from meat." For this, stem cells, for example, cows, are taken and cultured in a conditional test tube. In the United States today there is an active discussion of how to name such a product manufactured in the laboratory.
The developers offer the names “clean meat” (free from antibiotics and growth hormones that farmers feed animals) or “meat 2.0”. They also point to the harm caused by the enormous number of cattle and cattle due to greenhouse gases released daily from the manure of the 65 billionth herd of the planet. Frightened by the prospect of being left without their business, pastoralists are conducting an active public relations campaign, demanding that they call “meat” nothing more than “cell culture,” counting on the caution and squeamishness of the buyer. They point to the fact that more than a billion people work in the field of animal husbandry all over the world, which an artificial piece of meat can leave without a piece of bread. Almost half of the US residents who participated in the survey on this subject agree to call the product "meat produced in the laboratory."
American companies are actively investing in meat business 2.0. The most attention of investors was attracted to the startup Hampton Creek, which today is estimated at a billion dollars. They are going to grow foie gras without the participation of a goose, as well as beef, chicken and bluefin tuna in two hundred bio-reactors. However, this product has a lot of opponents. Environmental and social organizations indicate that there is not yet enough data on the safety of “test tube meat”.
It is curious that the whole Soviet picture was long ago described by the Soviet writer Ivan Efremov:
It must be remembered that, having outstripped the whole world, the USSR began work on the creation of artificial meat. Andrei Lisitsyn and Joseph Rogov were the first to create "test tube meat." Soviet academics wanted a universal product with which our cosmonauts could feed on long journeys. However, their program was curtailed, despite the protests of scientists, and safely forgotten. As you can see, the Soviet development was useful to the Americans, and this is not the first time.
It should be clarified that this is not about “meat” made from plant components, which can be tasted in developed European countries. Scientists are working on the creation of "meat from meat." For this, stem cells, for example, cows, are taken and cultured in a conditional test tube. In the United States today there is an active discussion of how to name such a product manufactured in the laboratory.
The developers offer the names “clean meat” (free from antibiotics and growth hormones that farmers feed animals) or “meat 2.0”. They also point to the harm caused by the enormous number of cattle and cattle due to greenhouse gases released daily from the manure of the 65 billionth herd of the planet. Frightened by the prospect of being left without their business, pastoralists are conducting an active public relations campaign, demanding that they call “meat” nothing more than “cell culture,” counting on the caution and squeamishness of the buyer. They point to the fact that more than a billion people work in the field of animal husbandry all over the world, which an artificial piece of meat can leave without a piece of bread. Almost half of the US residents who participated in the survey on this subject agree to call the product "meat produced in the laboratory."
American companies are actively investing in meat business 2.0. The most attention of investors was attracted to the startup Hampton Creek, which today is estimated at a billion dollars. They are going to grow foie gras without the participation of a goose, as well as beef, chicken and bluefin tuna in two hundred bio-reactors. However, this product has a lot of opponents. Environmental and social organizations indicate that there is not yet enough data on the safety of “test tube meat”.
It is curious that the whole Soviet picture was long ago described by the Soviet writer Ivan Efremov:
Automatic plants of artificial meat, milk, butter, vegetable yolk, caviar and sugar seemed to have nothing to do with fields, orchards of fruit trees and herds of pets. Flat transparent bowls of radiation traps for protein production made up only a small part of the huge underground structures, in which at constant temperatures and pressures amino acid flows circulated ...
It must be remembered that, having outstripped the whole world, the USSR began work on the creation of artificial meat. Andrei Lisitsyn and Joseph Rogov were the first to create "test tube meat." Soviet academics wanted a universal product with which our cosmonauts could feed on long journeys. However, their program was curtailed, despite the protests of scientists, and safely forgotten. As you can see, the Soviet development was useful to the Americans, and this is not the first time.
- Sergey Marzhetsky
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