Clickbaity title IMO.
Video summary: the reporter visits some company that makes lab-grown chicken meat. They use some cells from the chicken feathers. They feed them with nutrients and grow them into something that looks like a minced chicken.<p>At the end of the video, the reporter is trying a deep-fried chicken nugget out of it and saying that it tastes just like a real thing.
The fake adversity and theatrics make the video feel really dishonest.<p>TL;DW: It's grown from cells off a chicken feather, using "the same nutrition", is still too expensive, looks like ground chicken, and is indistunguishable when turned into a breaded/fried chicken nugget.
Im a vegan but Ive noticed that most other vegans are not really looking forward to lab grown meat. I on the other hand am optimistic and hopeful. I still miss the taste, texture and nutritional benefits of meat and this will hopefully tick those boxes (with plenty of other bonuses as well). The biggest challenge it seems to me though, is once price parity is achieved, how do you convince meat eaters to choose this chicken nugget over the perceived 'healthier' flesh of a dead chicken. That to me, will be the watershed moment. Perhaps its just a case of removing subsidies on real meat or getting the price point of cultured meat to be even less than real meat so people dont have to make the decision in the first place - their wallets will make it for them
if this was available in a store today I would prefer it over most offerings. Likely anti-biotic free, no added hormones, vastly reduced risk of contamination. It reduces the threat of swine flu and bird flu. Vastly better for the environment. No idea why anyone would have an issue with it besides the initial mental gymnastics of accepting where it comes from.
I am vegan and very excited about this topic, however in the interest of setting expectations I'd like to say that the truth they reveal in the video is: <i>lab grown meat is a thing</i>.
I want to know how it can be nutritional at all since meat from actual animals gets a lot of its value from the fact that the animal actually eats stuff from the ground.