Eat meat without slaughtering animals, artificial meat you eat? Scientists: more nutritious and healthy!

Many friends are meat eaters, it can be said that no meat and our body needs the essential amino acids that are also provided by meat, which is also a reason why people love to eat meat. However, although people like to eat meat, mention the slaughter of animals and we are very intolerant, so much so that many animal advocates can only eat meat in tears.

With the development of science and technology, today, eating meat may no longer need the animals under the knife, because artificial meat technology is increasingly mature.

Artificial meat

When it comes to artificial meat, many friends mind may be a child to eat the meat of the monk and other vegetarian meat, but this is only an imitation of meat taste and flavor of soy protein. The difference with real meat is great.

And we are here to say that artificial meat is animal meat, this meat is the use of cell culture technology, animal cells and tissues in the laboratory culture, whether taste and taste or composition and the meat grown on animals are the same, even because of the addition of a variety of mineral vitamins and more nutritious.

The company's main goal is to develop a new product that can be used for the production of artificial meat, and in 2001, several researchers from a Dutch university applied for an international patent to manufacture artificial meat, which includes adding collagen to the cells and inducing them to divide and proliferate in culture. 2008, the Dutch government allocated $4 million for artificial meat experiments.

Also in the same year, the Federation for Animal Ethics (PETA) was very supportive of artificial meat and invested $1 million to reward companies that put artificial chicken meat on the market. The reason for their support is that artificial meat replacing natural meat will save many animals from being slaughtered.

Why are many organizations bullish on the future of artificial meat? Let's summarize.

Reduced pollution

Artificial meat does have a great advantage over livestock farming from the perspective of environmental protection because large numbers of livestock are farmed, their manure pollutes the land and water, and their digestion produces large amounts of methane, or farts, that are emitted into the air.

In addition, livestock slaughter will be accompanied by a large number of hooves, horns, bones, and offal discarded, causing a lot of pollution, according to statistics, the U.S. slaughter industry will throw down 1.4 billion tons of waste each year, but I say more, inevitably not so serious in the country, the main problem or the U.S. utilization rate is too low ha.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 30% of the global land area is used for farming, farming emissions of greenhouse gases accounted for 18% of human activities. And, as the world's population grows and the standard of living improves, the demand for meat will continue to increase, then these percentages will also continue to increase.

However, artificial meat perfectly solves these problems, reduces pollution, reduces waste, reduces land occupation, and even mitigates global warming.

Mark Post, a professor of biology in the Netherlands, has also said that artificial meat can human beings solve the problem of hunger while preserving water, land, and energy.

Safe and nutritious

Because artificial meat does not need to be sick like livestock, in the production process of artificial meat will not be used antibiotics, and will not like livestock will accumulate heavy metals in the body, but also can fundamentally eliminate the spread of many livestock viruses, such as mad cow disease, swine fever, bird flu and so on. So artificial meat is safer than meat produced by farming.

As for nutrition, artificial meat can artificially control the nutrients in meat, for example, healthy Omega-3 fatty acids can be added instead of Omega-6 fatty acids. We all know that Omega-6 fatty acids in food can lead to high cholesterol causing disease, while more intake of Omega-3 can effectively prevent cardiovascular disease. Moreover, artificial meat does not grow fat like livestock and is completely high in protein. Like some friends most like to eat pancetta but are afraid of growing fat or high blood fat, then artificial meat produced pancetta can be a perfect match, not only taste delicious, but also prevent high blood fat, and atherosclerosis, eat how much do not have to be afraid.

In addition, according to the different needs of people can add essential trace elements, and vitamins, to meet the health needs of different people, and like many of us like to use the special parts of dietary supplements, you can also use the corresponding animal tissue to batch culture production.

Cost issues

Since the advantages of artificial meat are so great, then the cost is also a key factor in whether artificial meat can be marketed.

A U.S. artificial meat company revealed that a tissue sample collected from a cow can produce 80,000 beef burgers needed for beef. We calculate according to each 130g, equivalent to a beef tissue sample can produce 10 tons of beef, this ratio, can only say a good guy.

But although the output ratio is very high, in 2013 the media showed in the laboratory that to create such a piece of meat, cost needs 300,000 U.S. dollars, the price, of the most expensive Japanese Kobe beef can come to a timely pound. However, in 2018, a meat company in the United States expanded its scale will be made to reduce the cost to a few hundred dollars, according to the development of this trend, as long as the technology is mature and the scale of expansion, the cost will gradually reduce, even lower than the cost of farming. Artificial meat will become a strong competitor to traditional meat.

Moreover, the price of artificial meat is stable and will not be affected by the significant changes in food prices, so that no longer have to worry about the price of pork can not afford to eat.

The difficulties faced

Although artificial meat has great advantages, there are still many difficulties to break through. Cell culture technology and the public's emotions, and legal aspects need to break through.

The cell culture of artificial meat can only get a single layer of tissue, if the number of layers is too much, the middle cells can not breathe, so the meat is very thin and thinner than the Lanzhou ramen teacher knife work under the meat slices. This naturally can not meet people's habit of eating meat in big bites.

There is also this artificial meat is relatively single, although artificial meat can also cultivate adipose tissue as well as increase the content of myoglobin, the taste of meat and the age of the animal, exercise, and diet have a great relationship, so the artificial taste and ordinary meat will be different. However, researchers have also simulated animal exercise, allowing the artificial meat to exercise and move under caffeine as well as electrical stimulation to increase its taste.

The most serious thing is that when cells are cultured in vitro,t heirs metabolism, as well as their ability to repaithemselveslf, is altered, they may also face cancer after a large number of multi-generational proliferation. These are the challenges that scientists urgently need to solve.

In addition to the technical problems, there is also a problewithof people's acceptance of artificial meat, many people may not be able to accept to eat this artificial meat. But there are also supporters who say that compared to the Japanese research on "poop meat", artificial meat may be easier to accept for some.

Prospects

However, despite the difficulties, this can not stop the development of artificial meat, In 2019, the United States artificial meat company Beyond Meat listed on its first day soared by 163% and has been in a rising trend, and related concepts of the company have also been showing an upward trend. It even rose for many days.

This can also be mapped out for artificial meat to express support, or its prospects for a lot of people, after all, artificial meat in solving food problems and its accompanying advantages are indeed very obvious.

Shortly, artificial meat may appear in supermarkets and farmers' markets on the shelves, do you eat it? Welcome to leave your thoughts.