Artificial meat: the US will feed them the whole world instead of Russia

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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:

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.
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  1. +1
    12 August 2018 14: 29
    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.

    Well, why wonder? Who is in power in the world! Everything goes according to plan. Alas, not with us what is written. And you think at your leisure why artificially restrain the growth of the welfare of the Russians. Why do you specially do everything so that the bulk of the Russians live below the baseboard. We laugh over the Baltic states. And they have pensions and social programs higher than in Russia.
  2. +1
    12 August 2018 16: 42
    They will succeed. They finance a powerful social movement - vegans.
    It will not work, of course, to completely ban the slaughter of cattle and poultry, but a significant redistribution of the market remains.
    Beef, pork, poultry will rise sharply, and their sales will decline. And artificial meat will have a buyer: 1) ideological protectors of animals 2) poor people who cannot afford the meat and poultry.
  3. +1
    13 August 2018 13: 43
    In general, the idea is good, but let such meat be distributed free of charge. Since millions of people lose their jobs due to scientific progress, even if this progress would play a positive role - people would finally receive free food.
    1. +1
      13 August 2018 14: 42
      Initially, the cost of its production will be high. Stem cell cultivation is not an easy process. Then, when untwisted - maybe. Include in coupons for free meals.
  4. +1
    18 August 2018 21: 16
    They wouldn’t just jump out of their pants with their bangs - shame it will be !!! The whole world has already been inflated with gas and poured oil on top in three layers !!!