The assumption that these cells cannot be hardy assumes a great deal about this process. It’s lab grown meat not just lab grown beef.
From the perspective of human health we can use non mammalian cells for meat such as fish, reptile, or even invertebrates. That greatly changed the risks from things like viral or bacterial infection.
There’s a massive tradeoff in terms of the need for an immune system vs antibiotics vs near perfect sterilization. Avoiding contamination is extremely difficult but if possible solves many problems.
> The assumption that these cells cannot be hardy assumes a great deal about this process. It’s lab grown meat not just lab grown beef.
IIRC, none of the issues are specific to beef cells. They're issues with growing animal cells in a bioreactor.
> From the perspective of human health we can use non mammalian cells for meat such as fish, reptile, or even invertebrates. That greatly changed the risks from things like viral or bacterial infection.
Maybe for viral infection, but that would definitely not solve any issues for bacterial infections.
> Avoiding contamination is extremely difficult but if possible solves many problems.
Just like perfectly secure, bug-free code is extremely difficult but if possible solves many problems. But we all know how viable that is (e.g. you can manage it at a small scale at great expensive, but good luck trying it at a large scale).
> They're issues with growing animal cells in a bioreactor.
There’s major differences in growing different cells in a bioreactor. At the extreme end some cell lines are almost as hardy as bacteria.
> bug-free code
Producing some bug free code isn’t difficult, always producing bug free code is impossible. Similarly, a sterilization first approach is likely to occasionally fail but not every batch would fail.
From the perspective of human health we can use non mammalian cells for meat such as fish, reptile, or even invertebrates. That greatly changed the risks from things like viral or bacterial infection.
There’s a massive tradeoff in terms of the need for an immune system vs antibiotics vs near perfect sterilization. Avoiding contamination is extremely difficult but if possible solves many problems.