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http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists- ... 933396816=

...ok, that's weirder than cockroach milk.

I mean, if it's safe and tastes fine, I'd be cool with it (well, if it's lactose free....)

Actually sounds pretty interesting. Finding more sustainable, environmental/animal friendly sources of protein is a good thing. I've even thought of buying some products made with cricket protein.

I prefer what these people are doing: http://www.perfectdayfoods.com/ - it's actual cow's milk, but produced in a lab without the cows. Other startups have been working on culturing leather and other animal products, so it's a fascinating field that will hopefully one day help to meet demand and possibly perfectly replace products from actual animals. They're a lot more resource-efficient, no animals get harmed, and the final products could be of higher quality since they can control everything at the cellular level.

do you just love torturing me with this stuff

yes

Anakin McFly wrote:I prefer what these people are doing: http://www.perfectdayfoods.com/ - it's actual cow's milk, but produced in a lab without the cows. Other startups have been working on culturing leather and other animal products, so it's a fascinating field that will hopefully one day help to meet demand and possibly perfectly replace products from actual animals. They're a lot more resource-efficient, no animals get harmed, and the final products could be of higher quality since they can control everything at the cellular level.

Disregarding the fact that predicting the future is usually a fool's errand, I expect that this will likely be the future of things, along with lab-grown meats.

tbh my one reservation about lab-grown meats is that it's almost inevitable that some lab, somewhere, is going to start producing human meat and that gives me a lot of existential horror at how we are all food, everybody is potential food, everything alive on this planet is food

Reality gives me existential horror every single day, so I don't have any worries there.