The posts mostly express skepticism about the feasibility of scaling cultured meat economically, citing high costs, technical hurdles, and environmental concerns, with phrases like 'lab-grown meat isn't feasible' and 'costs struggle to go below $50/kg,' indicating critical tone and technical focus that reflect deep engagement and moderate interest. Controversies surrounding its impact are visible through comments on its environmental and economic implications, suggesting limited immediate influence beyond specialized discussions.
AgreementLow agreement
Most discussions express skepticism or outright dismissal of the feasibility of cultured meat scaling, indicating a general disagreement with optimistic claims.
InterestModerate interest
The discussion reflects a moderate level of interest, with many posts sharing technical details, referencing studies, and debating the challenges, showing some engagement with the topic.
EngagementHigh engagement
Posts include technical analyses, citations of research, and debates, demonstrating deep engagement and effort to understand or critique the publication.
ImpactLow impact
While the technical nature and controversy suggest some influence within the niche community, overall public impact appears limited, with many dismissing cultured meat as impractical for now.
Abstract in brief
The study explores whether cultured meat made from animal cells can realistically replace traditional meat on a global scale, considering production challenges.
It compares the process of growing animal cells in bioreactors to industrial fermentation, highlighting limitations like slow growth rates, cell damage, and high costs of equipment and key nutrients.
The conclusion is that to make cultured meat economically viable, significant improvements in cell growth efficiency and cheaper, plant-based growth media are needed, but these changes alone may not be enough to fully replace conventional meat.]
13/ Les dejo por aquí algunas referencias bibliográficas:
https://t.co/DvikDJCPzz
https://t.co/2Prtno0rXt
https://t.co/AecBluBm2M
https://t.co/QzGfU1oj2k
https://t.co/dC5SirKPGW
Jan 12, 2025 · 23 likes · 11,330 followersView post →
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Artorias
@Bgrimnir1 · X
@tracewoodgrains While lab grown meats would be amazing, the scientific breakthrough required to make it viable would be worthy of a several Nobel prizes. Think its stupid of DeSantis to ban it, but at same time people are overly optimistic about it.
https://t.co/3nKPsfcgwj
Feb 3, 2024 · 14 likes · 1 share · 43 followersView post →
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Shea Wihlborg
@Shea_ARK · X
Also, you're saying:
"Meat that requires >20x less water, produces 20x less green house gas emission, and leads to 100x less land use is gross"
Well, dear hypothetical ignoramus to whom I now tweet, I think ~you're~ gross.
Good day, sir.
https://t.co/ZtZZnh7Rxf
When Dave Humbird published Scale-up Economics for Cultured Meat in 2021, it cast a long shadow over the emerging industry. Just a few years later, a new wave of startups is doing what was claimed to be impossible. Jonathan Avesar and Jasmin Kern report.
https://t.co/vTLfa12qOl
@5002Egg If you want to deep dive this is my fav techno-economic analysis paper
https://t.co/WcOVbsoCIH
May 31, 2025 · 4 likes · 14,842 followersView post →
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Peasant with a PhD
@PeteGDunne · X
@coolydoody @SpudSlingsby @GeorgeMonbiot @AW_ARobinson good pt James
We should end all livestock farming? (in the rich or the poor world George?)
Why do I have to keep sharing this?
@TimCullinan_IFA @IFAmedia @RTEprime_time @GHGGuru @GrassBased @FatEmperor
https://t.co/BAgvEVRUmV.
https://t.co/3HqyHKbnMq
https://t.co/6ac1Dbzi35
Is meat grown in a lab the future of food and is it actually any good I took a road trip to find out. The study examines whether cultured meat can replace traditional meat globally, highlighting challenges like slow…
When David Humbird published Scale-up Economics for Cultured Meat in 2021, it cast a long shadow over the emerging industry. Just a few years later, a new wave of startups is doing what was claimed to be impossible.
#cellbased #meat #protein #biotech #foodtech
www.proteinreport.org/articles/the...
When Dave Humbird published Scale-up Economics for Cultured Meat in 2021, it cast a long shadow over the emerging industry. Just a few years later, a new wave of startups is doing what was claimed to be impossible. Jonathan Avesar and Jasmin Kern report.
https://t.co/vTLfa12qOl
@MagdaBiejat @dorota_olko David Humbird - Scale-Up Economics for Cultured Meat Techno-Economic Analysis and Due Diligence
https://t.co/7u0vKIgaxO
Na Pani miejscu zacząłbym przynajmniej od tego tekstu.
13/ Les dejo por aquí algunas referencias bibliográficas:
https://t.co/DvikDJCPzz
https://t.co/2Prtno0rXt
https://t.co/AecBluBm2M
https://t.co/QzGfU1oj2k
https://t.co/dC5SirKPGW
Jan 12, 2025 · 23 likes · 11,330 followersView post →
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degrowth project manager
@degrowthebourg · X
@selina_dedalus The main reason to oppose it is that it simply isn't a feasible technology. That's obviously not why these guys are doing it, but it shouldn't be seriously considered.
https://t.co/NVFOjhSR2x
"Nach der Weiterverarbeitung, Verpackung, dem Vertrieb und dem Gewinn könnte man erwarten, dass unstrukturierte Produkte, die zu 100 % aus Zellmasse hergestellt werden, im Supermarkt ein Minimum von 50 US-Dollar pro Kilogramm erreichen" Edelsteakviveau https://t.co/cHSfdTTAWt
@SamButl3r And those feed into these estimates for potential costs during scale-up of two different approaches
Estimates that cultured meats would struggle to sell for less than $50/kg in supermarkets even when producing at scale
https://t.co/ulbaOg5SO2 https://t.co/MJc7cKsDZA
@SamButl3r Ok this nice chart shows cost curves for production volume of amino acids and proteins
Source: https://t.co/ulbaOg5SO2 https://t.co/ir2fUtJnF5
@tracewoodgrains While lab grown meats would be amazing, the scientific breakthrough required to make it viable would be worthy of a several Nobel prizes. Think its stupid of DeSantis to ban it, but at same time people are overly optimistic about it.
https://t.co/3nKPsfcgwj
Feb 3, 2024 · 14 likes · 1 share · 43 followersView post →
@andreasnurbo Det skulle krävas en revolution in den process teknologi som används i dag eller en helt ny metod för framställning (afaik)
https://t.co/gvyvSmq9G1
@SBakerMD @RepThomasMassie @bigfatsurprise
Yummy, what's for dinner? Pharmaceutical lab "meat" cells? Fake meat is a chemistry lab creation. Give me beef or give me chicken, but don't give me chemicals!
https://t.co/wNrOSoeayB
Thinking about all the investment money poured into lab meat, imagine if it was all redirected to regenerative organic farming!
More expensive than regeneration, and worse for the climate.
Analysis: Scale-Up Economics for Cultured Meat:
https://t.co/sDx2S6llqJ
Jun 26, 2023 · 2 likes · 1 share · 4,390 followersView post →
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Ehud Gera
@ehudgeraMD · X
@TheClimatist הבחור פה עשה סיכום יפה על הקושי לייצר בשר בכמויות:
https://t.co/KNu67ql5ZH
למרחיקי לכת:
https://t.co/O4VfmIff63
Jun 21, 2023 · 3 likes · 1,913 followersView post →
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Steven M. Belknap, MD PGY43
@StevenMBelknap · X
@NanciGuestRDPhD Cultivated meat is not scalable.
https://t.co/xi9FgXwHKz
https://t.co/Y7GyMQPjHB
https://t.co/BG8Zkfx4mT
https://t.co/PbK71wZiiX
https://t.co/PZnaBynNaw
@FatEmperor he's unhinged, massively egotistical with false confidence.
I keep having to share these to discredit his nonsense (the price of free speech, even for loons like him I suppose):
https://t.co/3HqyHKbVBY
https://t.co/6ac1DbzPSD
@MarkusVinnari Tässä puhutaan $6-50/kg hinnoista. Kuitenkaan tässä artikkelissa ei varsinaisesti lasketa kustannusta ja sen komponentteja. Artikkelissa oleva arvio perustuu tähän: Humbird, D. Scale-up economics for cultured meat: techno-economic analysis and due diligence (2020).
Jan 18, 2023 · 1 like · 2,421 followersView post →
@coolydoody @SpudSlingsby @GeorgeMonbiot @AW_ARobinson good pt James
We should end all livestock farming? (in the rich or the poor world George?)
Why do I have to keep sharing this?
@TimCullinan_IFA @IFAmedia @RTEprime_time @GHGGuru @GrassBased @FatEmperor
https://t.co/BAgvEVRUmV.
https://t.co/3HqyHKbnMq
https://t.co/6ac1Dbzi35
@GonzaloLira1968 likely is, yup.
FYI:
https://t.co/migX6kERPy
Bonus, if marginally OT (recommend though):
https://t.co/3HqyHKbnMq
https://t.co/6ac1Dbzi35
(Of course, Gates is forcing this)
@REGENETARIANISM @fleroy1974 @JayneReesBuxton Prof. Sarah Martin, 2:45.
https://t.co/XOWDNNApxZ
see also
https://t.co/zTpfMEkz5W
Bonus:
https://t.co/6ac1Dbzi35
@thecoastguy Partly about control of (declining?) resources - land, water, energy, and ultimately food (RoI) #FoodandEnergy inseparable.
Re #FakeMeat v limited scalability. Financial interests think it'll work at scale
@BowTiedBull synthetic beef/meat is less green/efficient than normal beef/meat fundamentally. there is no technology to make it cheaper, only artificially increasing cost of meat/beef.
https://t.co/QeRqbjgYGR
https://t.co/6C1gVWgIO3
Mar 27, 2022 · 2 likes · 1,000 followersView post →
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Allan Konopka
@Hamatsa50 · X
@TamarHaspel @kimseverson FYI, for future reference, within article I found this article by a eminent biochemical engineer, with a detailed and rigorous analysis
https://t.co/CaEdx8C0c9
For a more technical analysis, check out this paper.
Growing meat is understood. No one debates that.
Pharma has been doing it for decades to produce vaccines, etc., but at orders of magnitude lower scale than needed for global food production.
https://t.co/iU79zAWGsU
@IshaDatar @aryelipman @Steven_Molino @NewHarvestOrg Really 2; there is the article from the counter but also David Humbird's excellent TEA on which a lot of it is based: Scale-Up Economics for Cultured Meat: Techno-Economic Analysis and Due Diligence https://t.co/tgd0U9ieHf
Sheesh - lab/cultured meat have a serious uphill battle.
via @bradsling paper he mentioned: https://t.co/GtZCC1Usln
-yield/scale/cost exorbitant currently
-viral/bacterial considerations
-cost of media ingredients is high https://t.co/mbBOGNCX5b
Oct 4, 2021 · 3 likes · 15,809 followersView post →
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Ruth Wild Montana
@RuthMontana0 · X
Please answer D Humbird's questions about the economics of cultured meat: https://t.co/AAoL9Wb4YY
Also, you're saying:
"Meat that requires >20x less water, produces 20x less green house gas emission, and leads to 100x less land use is gross"
Well, dear hypothetical ignoramus to whom I now tweet, I think ~you're~ gross.
Good day, sir.
https://t.co/ZtZZnh7Rxf
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