Step 1. The bad fats, the toxins present on meat tissue and the heme itself can have some effect on health if consumed a lot. And the antibiotics, the pesticides used to grow the food used to feed the cows, the treatments with topicals to fight parasites, and hormones (ilegal but used).
Step2. It already have no fat tissue. I don't think it's possible to create animal fat cells with low satured fat. It have lower toxins, I supose, since the organism it's not present to acumulate it in large amounts.
Step 3. Maybe they were already working in humans like that, nearly brainless, but they could not manage get pain free.
Chicken would need to eat, unless the organism was connected to feed machines. And to save water and ration the genetic modify chicken would need to grow really very fast.
Maybe it could be easier to just genetic engineer humans able to feel taste of nutella and bacon when eating broccolis.
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
In my view step #1 needs to be to identify what exactly in red meat, or beef in particular, is generally bad for health.
Step #2 would be to genetically engineer the beef to have less of whatever it is that is harmful to health.
Step #3 is to grow the meat itself, sans animal.
One Frankenstein sounding idea I've heard discussions about involved genetically engineering farm chicken to have minimally viable nervous systems. Essentially just the functions required to grow meat, with no brain to speak of, including no pain receptors or brain function to process pain. The first question is whether that would be ethical, the 2nd is if it's technically feasible.
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