How to create an artificial hamburger

[brooklynite]

from The Telegraph:

Muscle stem cells – which multiply to form other muscle cells – are taken from an animal such as a cow or pig in a relatively simple procedure which avoids the need to kill or seriously harm it.

In the lab these cells are put in a culture and fed with fetal serum, the plasma left behind in the blood after clots are formed, drawn from a foetus.

This helps collections of cells grow into small, muscle-like strips of tissue which are stretched daily to mimic the exercise that helps real developing muscle to grow.

However, the lack of blood and iron in the meat gives it a pale appearance nothing like a fillet of beef or pork.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Ummmm...fetal serum...

[Motown_Johnny]

2. burgers need fat too

20% - 30% is the normal range



and just exactly how do you stretch these little tiny muscle-like strips?



I think I could learn to deal with the pale color if this actually worked

[Countdown_3_2_1]

4. maybe the Stem Cells will have little couches and tiny TVs...nt

[Countdown_3_2_1]

3. A meal is not a meal unless an animal died to make my meal.

I'm top of the food chain, dabnabit!
Stem cells? pshaw. I wanna KILL something and grill it!

[HappyMe]

5. No thank you.

No lab meat for me.

[leveymg]

6. Just order one of these, anywhere in the world:

Just as I always thought, never got anywhere near a cow:



Or, in Moscow, have the McCav:

[d_r]

7. actually, I think it is how they make mcrib

[leveymg]

8. Could never really force myself to try it. That good, eh?

Think I'd rather eat the wood plank it's resting on. Less fat, more fiber.

The McCav looks better, just order it with McKrug, no ice, as part of the Moscow McValue Meal.

[Cirque du So-What]

9. I'd have a McCav

but the upper layer looks somewhat like salmon roe, and the last time I tried a bargain brand of that 'caviar,' it had a distinct 'lighter fluid' flavor; I had to spit it out discreetly.

[pinboy3niner]

10. You have to get the Super-Sized McVodka

The McCav still tastes like hell, but you don't care. :)

[Cirque du So-What]

11. Schoooperschize me!