Reply to post: Re: ""What was a wistful daydream just five years ago is now an inevitability,""

Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter

jelabarre59

Re: ""What was a wistful daydream just five years ago is now an inevitability,""

BTW this idea is around 70 years old. Frederick Pohl & CM Kornbluth. "The Space Merchants" product "Chicken Little."

If we were actually living in space habitats and doing interstellar travel, there would be the place I could see the product succeeding. You simply wouldn't have the capacity to do conventional animal farming, even if the terrestrial/planetary preference is still for free-range burgers on the hoof.

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