SFR Lab Grown Salmon (WAPO)

Sorta fishing-related
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Another share from WAPO that I can't guarantee will work
Is this "better" than farmed Salmon? Is this the start of Frankenfish? If you can grow fish in the lab, why try to save wild species?
At least they are using Pacific species as the basis for their cell lines

 
Wasn't able to read it all.

But initial thought is just cause you grow it doesn't mean folks will eat it.

Still quite a bit of stigma associated with lab grown anything. If you have to label it, I bet it will have challenges in the market.
 
"why bother caring about wild runs/conservation when we can just grow it in a lab?"
 
I am very skeptical that cell cultured fish or meat will ever be mainstream. Cell culture is hard to do and expensive, and once it is scaled up to industrial levels, it will be vulnerable to catastrophic failures - one mold spore in a culture vat and the whole plant needs to be sterilized sort of thing. Organisms have a whole built in system for keeping those vulnerable cells alive, and they do it for free. No amount of misguided venture capitalist money will ever be able to compete with that.

They’d be better to spend their excess money on cultured algae or fungi, where the cell is the whole organism, and making tasty products based on that. But that’s not making headlines in the WAPO.
 
Not exactly salmon steaks in a petri dish.

No life cycle assessment makes benefits tough to quantify.

The lack of environment contaminants is good point especially as we continue to learn how bad we messed everything up.
 
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