##### How it works: - Get 2.5 ml of fluid from a cow, painlessly - Extract the [[Stem Cells]], the stuff that makes us grow - genetic code of the cow - completely unmodified (could be stretched) - Bathe it in the same kind of nutrients given to a cow in a field - Use growth factors to grow these cells into what we want in large stainless steel containers called bioreactors - put the bits together and you have meat ###### Ancillary benefits - 70% of crops go to feed animals - Animals are highly inefficient converters of plant protein to useful nutrients. Input to output comparisons: - Chicken 9:1 - Cow 25:1 - **Cell 2:1** - 1 kg of beef --> 15,000 ltrs of water to produce - 80% of antibiotics go into intensely farmed animals to keep them from getting disease + genetically engineer them to bolster growth - Animal's Average lifetime Impacted - Chicken - 23 days - Dairy cow - 2 yrs - Field cows - 25 yrs - Disease to Humans Risk --> Carriers of diseases due to this close confinement and bad conditions that trickle down to humans Volume & Time Comparison: - 2.5 ml of fluid can produce --> 3,000 kg of meat = 7 cattle, taking 28 to 30 months to grow --> lab grown meat can do this in 40 days