Rice covered in cow cells aims to provide nutritious, sustainable food

There's literally nothing wrong with just having beans with your rice.

Unless you don't like beans.

Source: I don't like beans.
- I'm pretty sure that makes you an unclean heretic round these parts 🤷
- That just means there is something wrong. Something wrong with you, that is.
- Try them air fried. Totally changes the texture.
Yeah but that's just rice and beans which is boring and lame. This is Cow Hybrid Rice which is new and not lame
- And backed by startup capitalism and vulture capitalists!
- Can't wait to overpay for some Kobe rice.
  
  Also the headline makes me think it's going to be cows shitting on paddies of rice.
Except, you know, variety.
- Kidney beans, garbanzo beans, butter beans, black beans, pinto beans, black-eyed peas...

Here's the thing I think people don't understand.

Over half the world uses rice for over three quarters of their daily food requirements.

Anything to get those people more nutrition is a good thing, especially when this doesn't even involve killing any actual cows to produce this.

That's a fucking sobering statistic

Yes Alex, I take "Things that rich people will never eat for 500"

Don't be so sure. The baseball stadium in my city started selling roasted crickets for like $9 per tiny cup, and people have been buying shitloads of them.

Tasty and novelty can sell real well to rich folk.
- I am guessing you have a lot of Oaxacan Mexicans around your stadium. Fried crickets are big in Oaxaca. When I lived in L.A., you could buy Tacos de Chapulines from street vendors in some places.
  
  I've eaten insects. They taste fine. They're high in protein. They're probably the greenest possible livestock.
  
  A huge percentage of the world eats insects as part of their diet. It's only in the west that we have this crazy needless taboo. People are even disgusted by cricket flour. You can't see crickets in cricket flour. Things baked with cricket flour taste fine. And are higher in protein.
- No way in hell I would pay that much for what is essentially fry batter with a bit of protein added in. Sure, fry batter is delicious but you can get it much cheaper pretty much anywhere.
- While the engineers might be able to make it tasty it's not intended to become a novelty.
  
  Healthy food like Grassfed cows and fresh organic vegetables will be a novelty.
- Fabulously wealthy people do not go to baseball games and sit in the stands.
Oh they would eat it if it was rice covered in poor people cells...
- What about rice covered in rich people cells we feed to everyone else?

that color is a bit.... off-putting. I wonder how scalable their process is?

Makes me wonder if it’s bubblegum flavored.
That's the kind of shit that comes to life in my nightmares!

Thinking this article presents nothing more than a headline and a stock image. Is the photo of the actual nasty rice, how does it taste?

I'm all for scientific progress to help out global nutrition, but something about this and other fake meat products just turns my stomach. I love the plant-based burgers, but anything with genetically engineered cells just trigger something in my brain that tells me to stay far away. I'm sure it's irrational, but I can't get over it. edit: downvote all you want, it's just my own opinion...

They're downvoting you because you didn't read the article. There's no genetic manipulation involved, just ordinary cow muscle and fat cells. Lab-grown beef doesn't need to be modified, we already put in thousands of years engineering the cows it comes from.
- Fair enough.

And you chuckle fucks say vegans eat weird shit.

I'm good on the non-descript cow parts being sprayed on my rice.

They're actually doing this shit specifically to piss off vegans, right? That HAS to be the actual objective here 😄