Werk 13,166 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 KFC is trying to create the world’s first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets, part of its “restaurant of the future” concept, the company announced. The chicken restaurant chain will work with Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions to develop bioprinting technology that will “print” chicken meat, using chicken cells and plant material. KFC plans to provide the bioprinting firm with ingredients like breading and spices “to achieve the signature KFC taste” and will seek to replicate the taste and texture of genuine chicken. Bioprinted nuggets would be more environmentally friendly to produce than standard chicken meat, KFC says, citing a study by the American Environmental Science and Technology Journal it says shows the benefits of growing meat from cells, including reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption compared to traditional farming methods. “3D bioprinting technologies, initially widely recognized in medicine, are nowadays gaining popularity in producing foods such as meat,” Yusef Khesuani, co-founder of 3D Bioprinting Solutions said in a statement announcing the KFC partnership. “In the future, the rapid development of such technologies will allow us to make 3D-printed meat products more accessible and we are hoping that the technology created as a result of our cooperation with KFC will help accelerate the launch of cell-based meat products on the market.” KFC says its bioprinted nuggets will be available for final testing in Moscow this fall. The announcement didn’t detail how the process it’s testing in Russia differs from other 3D bioprinting efforts, but said “there are no other methods available on the market that could allow the creation of such complex products from animal cells.” No word on when or if the printed nuggets might be available for KFC customers to sample. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/18/21329453/kfc-russia-bioprinting-lab-chicken-nuggets-sustainable Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie 5 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 I want to be like “ew no why”, but if they do it right this is actually much more sustainable for the planet! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raragaga 8,119 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 xoxo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachinko 10,755 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 https://tenor.com/ymcU.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennywise 36,080 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 I'm always a slut for new food technologies So long ggd, it was nice while it lasted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Married the Night 3,955 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 I’m ready!!! Sounds amazing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisGuyTony 34,992 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Is there side effects to humans? All the KFC’s in my area have terrible customer service so I don’t know if I would ever even try this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG 7 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 I’ll stick to real chicken 2 minutes ago, ThisGuyTony said: Is there side effects to humans? All the KFC’s in my area have terrible customer service so I don’t know if I would ever even try this. Ok Karen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisGuyTony 34,992 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Just now, darkpaw said: I’ll stick to real chicken Ok Karen How does that make me a Karen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born in Chromatica 7 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 FaShIoN iS mY pAsSiOn! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,864 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 To artificially make it taste the same I'm willing to bet there's gonna be a tone of horrible chemicals on it that are gonna be terrible for u or be cancer causing or whatever. Almost everything highly artificial tends to have those issues Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PartySick 172,603 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 4 minutes ago, ThisGuyTony said: All the KFC’s in my area have terrible customer service so I don’t know if I would ever even try this. I feel like KFC is notorious for that I stopped going to the closest one to my house because everyone there seemed to hate life. Which, I get it, food service sucks, but don't bite my head off when I tell you that I'm missing half my order It would be cool if we could replace animal products with bio-printed ones though. Waaaay better for the environment and we can have cruelty free meat 11 minutes ago, Werk said: The chicken restaurant chain will work with Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions to develop bioprinting technology that will “print” chicken meat, using chicken cells and plant material. Working with the Russians, hmm? Now all their Trump donations make sense Whimsical bitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rio 5,088 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Sounds so unnatural - I dunno to feel. I can't see how food engineered this way won't contribute to cancer and god knows what else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PartySick 172,603 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Just now, Economy said: To artificially make it taste the same I'm willing to bet there's gonna be a tone of horrible chemicals on it that are gonna be terrible for u or be cancer causing or whatever. Almost everything highly artificial tends to have those issues That's the only downside tbh. But if Burger King can do it with hamburger (the impossible whopper is so f'ing good) I don't see why KFC can't do it with chicken Whimsical bitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Tookie 10,546 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 No thanks. So glad I stopped eating fast food a year ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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