Can lab-grown lobster compete with Maine's most lucrative catch?

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A food tech company in Wisconsin plans to commercialize cultured lobster meat, but industry leaders in Maine say they don't see it as an immediate threat.


With over 1,200 miles between Cultured Decadence’s headquarters in Wisconsin and the Maine coast, its foray into the lobster game may seem an unlikely choice.

But founders John Pattison and Ian Johnson don’t actually need the rocky coast or even the ocean for what they hope will become the latest crustacean sensation. All they need is a laboratory.

Cultured Decadence is a cellular agriculture startup using cell culture and tissue engineering to create shellfish products directly from cells – basically, lab-grown lobster. Labster, if you will.

The product is still a few years away from hitting store shelves, and its potential impact on Maine’s lobster fishery remains unclear. Cultured lobster is being developed at a time when plant-based meat alternatives already have become major players in the food industry, and some experts say cultured meats will comprise a large portion of the market by midcentury.

Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2021/05/16/can-lab-grown-lobster-compete-with-maines-most-lucrative-catch/
(Portland Press Herald)

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1. I'd jump at the chance to try any lab grown meat. It doesn't creep me out at all.

What breaks my heart is real meat.

[pandr32]

2. +1

[Sienna86]

3. Excited to see this.

No meat, but I eat seafood and this would be terrific.

[Indykatie]

5. I'd Try It. I love Salads & Casseroles with Seafood and This Blend Might Work Very Well for Those.

[Chainfire]

4. Well hell, if they can do it with seafood

They should try it with human cells. It could satisfy the cannibal in all of us. (I am teasing of course, I gave up cannibalism years ago)

Can you just imagine what the right would think about that? Maybe I will suggest that it is in the development phase on one of the right wing sites. You may hearing about it on Fox soon!

But, seriously, I don't think I would have a problem with it, I never could stand dropping a living creature in boiling water, and no amount of explanation of how it doesn't hurt them like it does us ever got through to me.

[Docreed2003]

7. Lol someone's on that

https://www.dezeen.com/2020/11/13/ouroboros-steak-meal-kit-andrew-pelling-grace-knight-orkan-telhan/

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6. If it tastes right why not. We need to improve our food resources.

But man, I was brought up on lobster. We have more than one lobster boat in our family. It would be hard for me to believe it til I taste it. Would it smell like lobster cuz I love that smell. Yeah I know it’s not so great to the lobster.