Hard pass for me, too! :-o

It's so weird. We spent several generations trying to get natural food back on our tables, and then, this. If you want to be vegan, you can get necessary-for-life B12 from yeast flakes. They might have to be cultured in an industrial process (I've never heard of homemade) but it's still real food, more or less. There are all kinds of traditional--preindustrial--meat alternatives. Why do we need food squirted through nozzles?

I do admit to wearing some rayon, which is wood (inc. bamboo) cooked and squirted through nozzles, and fibers is as close as I'm getting to that.

Hm...I don't mind so much 3D printed sugar, but decorative sugar is already piped and extruded, and decorative sugar isn't really for eating most of the time.

I'll stick with my small herd of Baldies thank you very much.

Now, if they could squirt an affordable tasty lobster or king crab through one of those nozzles I might give it a try.

Also a hard pass for me, I'll stick with my small herd of happy and grass fed/grass finished Herefords. can talk to them and they look nicer standing in the field than a printer does, LOL.

At some point, as population continues to grow, this technology might be necessary to produce something like meat to feed people without the necessity of cattle herds. Maybe if I were a vegan or vegetarian with a craving for beef I'd try it, but I mostly agree with Plllog, I'd want something closer to natural.

Annie

Pass for me, too. But this type of technology along with advanced food growing techniques like underground farming is going to be needed to feed an ever-growing world population with dwindling natural resources.

Yeah, I won’t be queueing up for it any time soon. 😝

Shades of Soylent Green 😬

No, No, just no. If I want something plant based I'll eat something that looks like a plant. I don't want a plant that looks like meat.

tastes like cardboard ... or hospital food ...

That is mostly techbro foodie vegan venture capital bs, in my view.

To feed the world and protect the environment, you don’t want to be 3D printing fake meat or lab-growing meat cells on an artificial substrate.

You want to grow vegetables and grains as efficiently as possible, vertical farming and hydroponics in some places, drip irrigated dirt farming in others, seaweed farms too, conserving resources and reducing air miles. You want to focus on protein that is efficient, so more fish, chicken, pork - and also bugs and worms (they can be fed to other protein, or we can learn to love cricket flour). Cows need to be eaten more sparingly but with great appreciation.

I hope calling it meat will be outlawed. It isn't. So why call it meat? If people want to eat that stuff then why not ......... I won't!

No. Just no. Only grass fed meat for me. Expensive? Yes. So I eat less meat.

Two points:

1. 3-D printed meat sounds like advanced technology, a major scientific achievement, but in fact automatic machine made food much more chemically complex, made by much more sophisticated machines have been around for decades. Go check out your supermarket shelves.

2. 3-D printed meats are not going to be cheap. The process is too slow.

dcarch

I almost never eat beef, and so I would not be interested. If it were 3-D printed bacon, I would give it a try.

I wont even eat real meat formed to look like something it isn't. Ex-mcrib, chicken nuggets, square fish . I try to feed us with healthy grass fed meat.