While I'm not undercutting the work that the USDA places into regulating consumer safety in the food supply chain, isn't it crazy to think that lab-grown meats are probably going to be under higher scrutiny from a food safety perspective than farm grown and butchered meats?
We give our food substances that fatten them up as quickly as possible, and we're surprised we're getting fat.
Isn't obesity rather well explained by cheap easily available food, carb heavy diet and increasingly sedentary lifestyle?
Otherwise, cows grow to much bigger than people, much quicker than people do. Why don't their natural growth hormones affect us in the same way?
Will they be? There's quite a long list of information about slaughter inspection just meant for regular people to understand. I'm sure the technical documentation goes into quite a bit of scrutiny. https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and...
Even if lab grown meats do end up being more highly scrutinized, it's not crazy to look more closely at a brand new process than one has been exercised for over a hundred years (the Federal Meat Inspection Act is from 1906).
That worked well in Wuhan
That's a pretty big problem with lab-grown meat. Bacteria are much better at reproducing quickly than cells of complex organisms like animals. So if your reactor is not perfectly clean, you are going to grow bacteria instead of meat. The reason live animals (including us) don't get overwhelmed by bacteria is because they have all sorts of defenses, most importantly, an immune system.
Unless labs have something equivalent in, they will have to be under extreme scrutiny.
no, it's not
Animals have a highly effective immune system pumping out hunter killer nano bots to actively fight off invasive microorganisms, lab grown meat doesn’t. Similarly it’s far easier to tell of an animal is extremely infected.
I'm so not a biologist, so: why would that be harder than also lab growing the bit of their bodies which makes the various immune cells?
Like, an immune system needs to be trained, needs to be maintained, needs plumbing, needs waste removal…
Kinda like the difference between playing catch in the backyard and launching rockets to outer space?
Plus all that extra stuff is almost certainly not tasty.