Test-tube Meat

[Global Warming]

Wow! That all I can say... Welcome to Star Trek!

"One process involves growing animal muscle and fat cells on thin membranes stretched over large flat sheets and then removing the meatlike material and stacking it together to create a thicker "cut" of meat.

The other method would involve growing the cells on small three-dimensional beads that stretch as the temperature changes and harvesting them to make processed meat similar to nuggets or hamburgers.

"The challenge is getting the texture right," Matheny said in a news release."

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...89/1012/NEWS06

[exhausted mules]

too bad it'll never be like the real thing.

they'd have to figure out a way to simulate the way a muscle grows with using up amino acids and stores energy.

then... they'd have something closer to the real texture.

soon we'll have grown entire dummy humans...

[RC45]

Just grow a freaking cow... cheaper and quicker..

[corpse_grinder0]

just buy more?

[Global Warming]

Hah yeah, even if this is years away and very costly…

This represents an extreme biological, ecological, economic, political, religious, etc., etc …… question that would just about affect everything…

[RC45]

What he foresees, however, is much grander. "With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply," he said.

Pointless - the world grain and meat requirments are already being produced... there is not a shortage of food in the world... there is a shortage of fair, etical and appropriate distribution of the current food production.

Until human nature is cleaned up, these ideas are all a total waste of time and resource with regard to "solving world hunger and curing disease"

People and greed are the problem, not lack of resources.

[Global Warming]

Originally Posted by RC45 What he foresees, however, is much grander. "With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply," he said. Pointless - the world grain and meat requirments are already being produced... there is not a shortage of food in the world... there is a shortage of fair, etical and appropriate distribution of the current food production. Until human nature is cleaned up, these ideas are all a total waste of time and resource with regard to "solving world hunger and curing disease" People and greed are the problem, not lack of resources.

You really think the cost of raising and slaughtering actual anamils for meat will stay more cost effective than growing cells and making meat that way?

Sure at “fine” restaurants but what about TV dinners?

[antonioledesma]

yes, it's cheaper because you don't pay royalties for "economical,e xtreme biological, ecological, political, religious,"
in some years you'll have the choice between black beans and the trademark Monsanto beans (genetically modified beans)

and believe it or not, but sometimes most of processed meat you eat is soy (damn, it's soya in spanish) . And soy is very very cheap