From my analysis, I don't think it would really work out as a whole.
The reasons why people buy organic food, or even naturally grown/bred meat is because of the texture and taste. What you feed the creatures will turn out in the quality of their flesh, similar to how human muscles grow and adapt due to physical training. If meat growing is going to take place as a form of mass production, it would relegate natural meat as a "gourmet flesh" and thus, creating another form of branding.
The implications of this is great as it drives the prices of natural meat up, and when special occasions call, natural meat becomes overvalued due to the reduced demand on normal days as compared to lab-meat.
Secondly, the meat is grown from
stem cells, which are hard to harvest as it is highly perishable. Combined with the instigated morphology the scientists have done to make it grow into meat, the research costs will surely go up as growing meat is the same as having a child,
environmental conditions have to be maintained. Furthermore, coupled with the profit motives of marketing and selling such a meat, as well as to allay the fears of such meat being bad quality and such, how much is it going to cost? And even if they are going to buy over natural pastures to turn into laboratories, how much is the cost of the meat going to skyrocket to?
On a small note, Muslims and Jews don't eat pork. The success rate of such experiments could be better if they tried using chicken stem cells, but since genetic engineering is most advanced in the field of humans and pigs are the closest as poultry mammals, it is not surprised that it swung of in that way.
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Originally Posted by Solace
And yes, after seeing some international cuisines I'd have to agree with your last statement.  |
Next time you come holidaying, come down to Asia. If you can't afford the Imperial Feast in China which has monkey brain soup, you can go Southeast and have the following :
1. Pig organs soup, namely soups of pig brains with ginger, or pig heart with gingko nuts, or pig intestines with dates and ginger.
2. Turtle soup, in which the turtle is boiled with double-boiled herbs.
3. Frog soup with the frog legs tangled with watercress
4. Tubifex worm porridge. High in protein.