Im going to hurl... Lab grown MEAT...

[crizzo5137]

Paper Says Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale

Microscopic image of turkey muscle cells grown in cultureExperiments for NASA space missions have shown that small amounts of edible meat can be created in a lab. But the technology that could grow chicken nuggets without the chicken, on a large scale, may not be just a science fiction fantasy.

In a paper in the June 29 issue of Tissue Engineering, a team of scientists, including University of Maryland doctoral student Jason Matheny, propose two new techniques of tissue engineering that may one day lead to affordable production of in vitro - lab grown -- meat for human consumption. It is the first peer-reviewed discussion of the prospects for industrial production of cultured meat.

http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1098

[lvx35]

1. 15% of greenhouse gas is cow flatulence!

produced off the energy of the tofu their fed, which is grown in the cut down rain forest. Lab grown meat is much better for the environment, and lacks the questionable ethics of needing your meat attached to a functional animal brain.

[crizzo5137]

4. Gosh...

I post an article that I find irksome and get the PETA treatment..lovely...


needing your meat attached to a functional animal brain?

are you a reformed smoker by chance?

[lvx35]

5. Here's some cyber animal blood thrown at you!!!!

:rofl:

hee hee. Peta treatment indeed!

[beam me up scottie]

7. What PETA treatment ?

Little oversensitive tonight ?

If you just want a bunch of yuks over this, post it in the Lounge, not the Science forum.

[Maple]

2. You prefer this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8525632/site/newsweek/

[beam me up scottie]

3. Just like a replicator.

Sort of.

If this comes to be and people still prefer to enslave and slaughter animals for food, what will they use for an excuse ?

[JackDragna]

6. Screw this.

The obvious solution is to eat people.

[lvx35]

8. Soilent Freep is people! its people! (Gasp)

[Dr.Phool]

9. You'll eat my lab over my dead body!!!

Oh, I thought we were talking about dogs.

Lab meat.

[applegrove]

10. They grow lobsters in little compartments that weigh them and water

them. When someone wants a 3 pounder - they just dial it up and go get it. Don't know where exactly but I heard about that. Not much fun for the lobsters I would guess. It isn't like they are plants with not much in the way of feelings. Poor lobsters. Personally I'll worry about the things with nervous systems.

And yes - I have dropped a lobster into a pot of boiling water. I am told that is humane as any other way to bring meat to the table.

[DireStrike]

11. Oh, yeah... lab grown meat is much worse than lab grown animals.

The way they treat animals and force them to live, and pump them full of so many antibiotics and chemicals...

PETA treatment? Sorry dude, just go visit a slaughterhouse if you don't believe.

[Nihil]

12. Each to their own I suppose

Personally, as a carnivore, I think this could be a great idea ...
as long as it tastes OK and has a lower additive content than the
factory cows that most people are used to. Doesn't make me puke at all.

I buy organic steaks, preferably from a local farm, but recognise that
this is not realistic for large populations. The negative connotations
of manufactured meat are far less <to me> than those of eating GM cow,
sheep or chicken.

Now, when it gets round to Soylent Green ... :-)

[benburch]

13. Have you ever slaughtered and butchered an animal you raised and liked?

I have.

I'd FAR prefer cultured meat.

And cultured beef would have no nerve tissue, and hence, no Mad Cow prions.

And would be grown in sterile conditions, so no antibiotics.

[Cicero]

14. OK, some gross comments follow...

The story involves turkey muscle cells, and says it can apply to any other food animal as well.

Well, why not any animal. Cultured dolphin steaks? Ape kabob? Elephant nuggets?

In fact, who's saying only animal cells could be used? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

:puke:

Long pig, anyone?

(Sorry.)

Later,

[benburch]

17. That wouldn't gross me out whatsoever.

Cell cultures are not creatures. Period.

[Nihil]

20. What's the problem?

Sorry, didn't see anything "gross" with your post ...

I'd be happy if they'd culture calf cells as I might start eating veal
again. (I remember that I used to like it but stopped so long ago that
I can't actually recall the taste.)

I'd be very happy if they'd culture lamb cells as it removes the silly
dissonance between watching new-born lambs gambolling in a field just
before sitting down to a roast lamb dinner.

I'd be delighted if they would culture whale cells and stop the
&^%£ing Japanese from slaughtering whales for their restaurants.


OTOH, I'd be disappointed if they cultured human cells for food ...
there's far too many humans around to start worrying about that!
:evilgrin:

[htuttle]

15. Will this be sold in a can labeled 'Meat Food'?

Like Velveeta is 'Cheese Food'?

[Cicero]

16. "Processed Imitiation Meat Food Log" (nt)

[Nihil]

21. ... or "sausage" for short ...

:-)

[beam me up scottie]

23. *snort*

:rofl:

[benburch]

18. Likely; Texturized, Flavored, Cultured Meat Product. nt

[beam me up scottie]

19. Why, sounds about as good as

"flesh from a rotting carcass" !

[MinotaurArms]

22. Tasty...

Pinch me off a slab with some tweezers and I'll barbecue it with a candle!

[seasat]

24. Oh my gosh, they've discovered the secret recipe...

for SPAM

[On the Road]

25. Grown "on an Industrial Scale"

Meaning as large as a factory? That's an image.