Yeah, that’s what I’m envisioning too.

Yeah, it would be great if this could become a staple.

Depends, are we counting our blood stained underpants? Because then I have 19289547.

As John Oliver so rightly pointed out, the “liability reasons” thing is actually a huge myth that most restaurateurs believe in:

As galling as it is, I think this season is doing a lot of good, simply by pointing out so vividly the many blind spots people have around these issues. It educates and awakens everyone a bit more as we watch it.

I don’t know why but Kenan’s “what’s up with that?” Skit sends me into cry-laugh territory every time. It's so stupid!

Oh and I meant to add - note in this situation, if this guy did in fact douchily slow down (another common douche tactic), the motorcyclist was correct that this was not the type of twit to hang around near....

To all of you saying passing on the DY is automatically Bad - stop. Just stop.

a) You probably don’t ride. Believe me, there are plenty of places that are unsafe for a car to pass where it’s no problem for a bike (either due to the bike being able to do the pass or simply because of things like better sightlines due to…

Yeah, peek inside an industrial-sized slaughterhouse, pureeing lips and taints into slurry that’s reshaped back into grade D meat-patties for McDonalds, it won’t seem too “natural” either.

Yeah man, even if it is somewhat inferior you can’t tell me that school cafeterias, prisons, (jesus - grouping those 2 things together seems wrong), McDonald’s, etc won’t be buying it if it is cost effective.

Seconded!

This right here. There are plenty of dishes where the meat taste is not important, so start subbing it in there first. Eventually tastes will shift and no one will care about the diference but purists and foodies.

Could they raise like far fewer cows for the express purpose of serum? Do they have to kill them to harvest it? How could we get the most serum for the least cow, basically?

*Gross?* You have no idea what goes on in the modern meat industry, do you?

I completely agree. Let’s raise the ethical standards and just make meat a luxury item. It won’t hurt the average American to live on farmed fish and legumes. My biggest concern would be that the animal protein in most people’s diets would be replaced by more unnecessary simple carbs, and to prevent that we’d need to…

“THIS BAD BECAUSE UNNATURAL, ME NO LIKEY THINGS ME DON’T RECOGNIZE”

There’s one critical hangup in all of this... for mammalian cell culture, there is an essential component of the growth medium we use: serum, derived from bovine blood (the plasma, basically)*. Most commonly, fetal bovine serum. Serum contains tons of individual growth factors which are very important in stimulating…

You’d rather kill an animal than grow a single, perfect steak in a vat, with exactly the right percentage of fat? I mean, it’s not like the market for “the real thing” will ever go away anyway.

Except, have you seen how unnatural a modern chicken is?

If there’s a market for Velveeta and non-dairy coffee creamer, you cannot tell me that the taste *has* to be spot-on. Make it cheap enough, and people will accept close enough.