My bet’s on 3D printed meat making it to our plates before we’re DIY’ing insulin.

Regulation for medications like insulin is super tight (rightly so!). You can’t just whip up life-saving stuff in your garage without some heavy-duty checks and balances from the FDA and the like. Plus, the DIY part is insane, we’re talking high-level genetic engineering and biochemistry here, not homebrew beer.

Then there’s the demand part. The hype for environmentally-friendly, cruelty-free meat is real and growing every day. If they can get the taste and texture right, not to mention a decent price, lab-grown meat is gonna fly off the shelves.

Meanwhile, homebrew insulin’s got a smaller audience - mainly type 1 diabetics and some type 2s. And given that botched insulin can be lethal, a lot of folks might stick to the tried-and-true stuff from pharmaceutical companies.

So yeah, I’m thinking lab-grown burgers beat homebrew insulin to the punch. But hey, it’s 2023, who knows what’s around the corner? Fun to think about though!

USA is the only developed country that doesn't have affordable insulin, so my vote's on 3D printed meat

The meat because big pharma probably won't hesitate to go harder than the RIAA on home formulas

3d printed meat for sure. Getting food right has more margin for error.

Though the open insulin project has been making progress on open sourcing insulin!

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Have you had a steak from walmart recently? Who needs a printer?

Can I get insulin printed in a benchy boat?

They already have chocolate 3D printers, and lab meat is almost or already at market somewhere and would also actually make someone money in our largely capitalist dominated world, so I'm gonna go with that.

Just don't live in a country where one company has a monopoly on Insulin and you also can't Import it. Then problem one is not a problem anymore.

Insulin. The buzz on the street is that cultured meat works like shit. Insulin on the other hand is already made in bioreactors, and there's no reason that you couldn't do it yourself with the know-how as far as I know.

I heard a podcast episode about a guy who homebrewed insulin in an area of Nazi occupation and saved a bunch of people. Warsaw ghetto perhaps?

I really feel for my ISSs brothers and sisters and your unaffordable medicine. I count myself lucky living where I do.