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Mitthrawnuruo t1_izbj246 wrote

Reply to comment by TheDarkClaw in Ben & Jerry's owner may launch ice cream made from cow-free dairy | The potential rise of lab-grown milk could result in amazing advances in the world of ice cream by chrisdh79

You know there reason.

No one wants lab grown food.

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StarGaurdianBard t1_izccesp wrote

> no one wants lab grown food.

Speak for yourself. Not everyone is anti-science/afraid of progress. This is like saying "no one wants genetically modified food" but I gurantee the vast majority of people eat their modified corn and fruits just fine.

With how fast we are hunting various animals into extinction we either get used to lab grown food or get used to starvation.

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Mitthrawnuruo t1_izce44e wrote

Actually, very few people eat genetically modified foods. Selective breeding is not the same as genetic modification. The only food that has met with commercial success for humans is an apple that doesn’t brown as quick. Things like genetically modified corn are used for animal feed, not people.

Which is pretty sad, considering what we can do, and what we are doing. I think we could improve many things by genetic modification, and would love to see it done on chestnut trees to see them return to their rightful place in American forests.

As to traditionally grown crops, there is a hell of a lot of science involved, and always has been.

You win no friends, or converts, with your uninformed and elitist view that lab grown is in some way superior, and traditionally grown foods are not the process of thousands of years of scientific advancement and study, ignorant of the fact that crops are probably the most scientifically studied thing in all of human history, at any point in human history, including the modern era.

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mhornberger t1_izf92p1 wrote

Plus it's only "lab-grown" when it's being grown in a lab, during the R&D phases. Production facilities have large stainless steel tanks. Why don't we call beer "lab-grown"? Because even though production is done in large stainless-steel tanks, it's not in a lab.

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Mitthrawnuruo t1_izg29fy wrote

Any professionally run brewery is very much a lab, with everything you would expect from a lab, including lab tests at multiple phases of the brewing process, & chemists and biochemists on staff.

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