For the contamination sentence: what’s wrong with equipment and media sterilization? Why wouldn’t we just grow meat in sterilized equipment in managed facilities? Also, couldn’t we just sterlize after the fact?
For the sensitivity / robustness: why does it need to be robust? Can’t it just be grown in a special facility? It’s not like you can mimic the Doritos production process at home, but that doesn’t stop a lot of Doritos being made. Why would the bioreactor need to placed outside?
For waste management: This does seem necessary. But months / years of continual operation don’t seem necessary (though more efficient if it can be pulled off). If the bioreactor is shut down and sterilised intermittently, that seems like it would suffice.
For scalability: I believe you that scalability is an issue, but the examples in the 7th and 8th sentences seem unnecessary and unlike any other (roughly) nature-mimicking process we’ve chosen. Why should the bioreactor need to grow? If the volume needs to change over time, couldn’t this be achieved with a piston-like mechanism? In general, we produce things on factory lines, not via creating replicating machines. Useful replicating machines are certainly far beyond our capacity to make de novo (though we can tweak nature’s small self-replicating machines)
For the contamination sentence: what’s wrong with equipment and media sterilization? Why wouldn’t we just grow meat in sterilized equipment in managed facilities? Also, couldn’t we just sterlize after the fact?
For the sensitivity / robustness: why does it need to be robust? Can’t it just be grown in a special facility? It’s not like you can mimic the Doritos production process at home, but that doesn’t stop a lot of Doritos being made. Why would the bioreactor need to placed outside?
For waste management: This does seem necessary. But months / years of continual operation don’t seem necessary (though more efficient if it can be pulled off). If the bioreactor is shut down and sterilised intermittently, that seems like it would suffice.
For scalability: I believe you that scalability is an issue, but the examples in the 7th and 8th sentences seem unnecessary and unlike any other (roughly) nature-mimicking process we’ve chosen. Why should the bioreactor need to grow? If the volume needs to change over time, couldn’t this be achieved with a piston-like mechanism? In general, we produce things on factory lines, not via creating replicating machines. Useful replicating machines are certainly far beyond our capacity to make de novo (though we can tweak nature’s small self-replicating machines)