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CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

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171 points rguiscard | 3 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.791s | source
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SapporoChris ◴[12 Dec 25 03:23 UTC] No.46240533[source]▶
They've altered Fusarium venenatum which is currently what Quorn utilizes in its products. "The production process of gene-edited MP is more environmentally friendly than chicken meat and cell-cultured meat." That's good news, if they get to the point where it is more economically friendly than chicken meat it will be great news.
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shrubble ◴[12 Dec 25 07:03 UTC] No.46241584[source]▶
There’s little chance that the statement is true. Chickens kept in a backyard can live on bugs and kitchen scraps and there’s no delivery cost for eggs or eventual meat.
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swiftcoder ◴[12 Dec 25 08:10 UTC] No.46241946[source]▶
Back of the envelope, for a family of 4 eating US quantities of chicken... you need to be slaughtering ~100 chickens per year. In a homesteading setting it usually takes a chicken about 12 weeks to reach slaughter weight, so you need to be raising a minimum of 25 at any time.

That's a pretty substantial backyard operation.

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1. vintermann ◴[12 Dec 25 09:23 UTC] No.46242356[source]▶
If everyone had backyard chicken operations on that scale, I suspect we'd have a lot more disease problems! Decentralized isn't necessarily better for disease, if the overall scale stays the same.

At least where I live, you can't have chickens in quite the same way our great-grandparents had. You need to comply with veterinary regulation for one, and for good reasons.

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2. a96 ◴[12 Dec 25 11:44 UTC] No.46243212[source]▶
If every yard in a town or city was full of chickens, I wouldn't call it decentralized. Just one very broad centre.
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3. K0balt ◴[12 Dec 25 11:53 UTC] No.46243275[source]▶
Or you could just call it the developing world lol. It’s very common in many places.