Article I tried lab-grown salmon. Here's what it tasted like.

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Cultivated meat is getting better and better. That's why states keep trying to ban it.
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INTRO: I've been a committed vegan for more than three years, but this week, I ate meat. Why? The meat dishes I ate this Wednesday weren't ordinary salmon and chicken. They didn't come from a slaughterhouse or fishery—in fact, they didn't come from a living animal that had to be killed at all. The meat I tried was cultivated, or lab-grown meat.

While lab-grown meat has been subject to considerable culture war fervor in recent months, few have actually tried slaughter-free meat. In fact, after a brief restaurant-based debut last year, lab-grown meat options aren't available for commercial sale anywhere in the United States currently. The dishes I had came from cultivated meat companies Wildtype and GOOD Meat, and were served for free by alternate protein industry group Food Solutions Action.

I tried two salmon dishes and one chicken dish, all served up inside José Andrés' downtown D.C. restaurant Oyamel. The first salmon dish involved a dollop of guacamole wrapped in a thin slice of Wildtype salmon gravlax. Salmon, especially cured salmon like gravlax, is the kind of meat I miss the most since going vegetarian four years ago, so I was particularly excited to try this one. While it wasn't quite like how I remembered lox tasting, the Wildtype salmon was savory, undeniably meaty and pleasantly fishy. In my experience, texture is the biggest challenge facing cultivated meat products and the wafer-thin preparation in this case helped the Wildtype salmon shine... (MORE - details)

[Syne]

How much can you trust a vegan to tell you how good meat tastes?

[stryder]

How much can you trust a vegan to tell you how good meat tastes?

considering they stated they've been a Vegan for 3+ years,they probably ate meat previously. They probably quit initially because of either ethical reasons in regards to the slaughter or down to some other underlining pressure from healthcare to someone else in their life "suggesting" it.

Personally I wouldn't eat meat be it vat grown or otherwise. I worked out there is a high likelihood that when young, a course of antibiotics likely inadvertedly damaged my digestive system significantly enough to make meat unpalletable. I actually find that foods that try to mimick meat too closely even turn my gut.

That being said I did ask into whether laboratory grown meats could potentially look into creating fur skins or tusks/horns (Since they should all be possible) the theory being that flooding the market with ethical labgrown would undermine the blackmarkets dealing in them.

Although from a Scifi perspective, a fur coat could be a bit like a teratoma, using a drip feeds to feed it since it doesn't have organs or a brain, however it could respond to touch and even be warm blooded.

[Yazata]

I'm willing to try lab grown salmon, if I can find it at the supermarket without having to go to a vegan restaurant.

[Syne]

How much can you trust a vegan to tell you how good meat tastes?

considering they stated they've been a Vegan for 3+ years,they probably ate meat previously.

3 years is long enough to not be a fair comparison.