Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Can Lab-Grown Steak be the Future of Meat? | Big Business | Business Insider" video.

  1. We've also been 20 years away from fusion power plants ever since 1960......
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  2. It's still cheap and perfectly good to eat, so we eat it anyway. It's all about getting the most out of finite acres of land.
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  3. The beef industry isn't broken. It's highly automated and highly efficient and the cows have better lives on the farms than they would in the wild.
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  4. Because humans are omnivores. We will eat real meat no matter what.
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  5.  @hanellipsis  there's also pelts and proteins for medicine and milk. But more importantly, the cows eat that part of corn, wheat, and other plants that are not edible by humans but we produce a lot of through crops.
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  6.  @sunshine3914  this goon thinks we feed wheat to cows instead of eating it ourselves. No, the cows eat the inedible stalk of the plant. And cows, like humans, prefer fresh food over preserves, the latter provides all the needed nutrients to both. In a cow's case, hay and silage versus grass.
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  7. To the butcher. (Sarcasm)
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  8. The real bar is whether costs can go lower than real beef regardless if it is an inferior product. If that's the case, we'll put the lab stuff in kid's meals and dog treats and convenience stores and keep the real stuff for fine cooked meals.
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  9. So many generations and civilizations have come and gone. This one isn't any different.
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  10. There's other firms trying to do just that. But in all cases the trouble is industrializing the process.
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  11. That's called pork. That's not a joke, according to actual cannibals, pigs and people taste the same.
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  12. Fire this reporter for incompetence. She's damning industries she doesn't have even basic knowledge of.
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  13. This goon doesn't realize how many million of acres of grasslands is needed to raise cows, and also thinks cows destroy trees. And it's strange to call a process ongoing since the bronze age "unsustainable."
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  14.  @PerceptionVsReality333  what is? Lab meat? That's silly, there's good science here
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  15. Don't be silly, Mr Gates loves science and has more money than he can spend.
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  16.  @HristinaSedlackova  How fortunate for you, as no one wants to because at the moment this stuff is expensive. And the difference between an investment and subsidies is that one expects to at least get their money back eventually.
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  17.  @HristinaSedlackova  while you railing on a guy you never met? You jealous of his money?
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  18. You should see what we did to chickens without the use of science...
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  19. Ha.
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  20.  @mrgermanvono35  This goon thinks cows drinking water will kill a rainforest....
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  21.  @sunshine3914  The hormones you're talking about are bull, they ruin the meat. And they're not fed grain, they're fed the inedible part of the wheat plant along with the same from corn and the waste products from human food factories. Why? Because it's cheap and plentiful, although there is a lot of hay that is grown specifically to feed to cows and horses (hay is just long grass). These days cows eat more corn silage than before, because we grow a lot of corn in order to make ethanol and there's a lot of leftovers from that process which is good for cows. That's the perk of being an herbivore; The whole world around a cow is food. Cows eat what we can't, and then we eat the cow.
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  22.  @satori4183  that's cartoonishly absurd. We've been farming cows since before the pyramids were built. So shut your trap before you get passed off for pork at the grocery, smoothbrain.
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  23.  @Detson404  there's literally no difference. They're fed hay (dry grass) and whatever silage (I.E. the inedible stocks of corn and wheat) and food waste we have on hand. Cow eat silage, we eat cow. Funny how turning a profit involves peak efficiency.
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  24. No. You're an omnivore. You're an apex predator. You're naturally suspicious of other humans. GIVE IN TO THE BLOODLUST!
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  25.  @sunshine3914  You definitely don't raise cows, and you're not helping anyone's case.
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  26. When you're dealing with zero competency it's really a matter if it sounds like something from an old horror movie or if it sounds revolutionary. I.E. gene editing doesn't do anything that wasn't already done with selective breeding, but it sounds like the start of a zombie movie. While lab grown meat is likely to be an inferior product and/or expensive, but it sounds like it could replace traditional farming which idiots have been slandering for years.
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  27.  @sunshine3914  you evidently didn't grow up around farmers. It really depends on the crop, as labor intensive harvests are usually corporate ventures (like peppers) while largely automated farming (like cattle) is run by ma and pa ventures who usually have been farming the same plot since America got settled.
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