Good news for meat-eaters or would be meat-eaters...Lab grown meat just a year away!

[masmdu]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/19/test-tube-burger-meat-eating?newsfeed=true

Project funded by anonymous individual aims to cut number of cattle farmed for food and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Good deal from all perspectives. Better for environment, animals, vegetarians who made the chose based on animal crulity/enviro issues.

I'm looking forward to trying some.

[eShirl]

1. the McStemcell

[Iggo]

2. That's what they encase the Terminators in, right?

[lunatica]

3. Soylentburgers

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Food Replicators for Space Travel

aka Star Trek especially with the new 3D printers.

[The Doctor.]

17. Damnit, the only full cartridge is the Spam one!

And it's in black and white. Might as well just buy a whole new printer.

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. You can already make AK47 and AR15 components on a 3D printer

Why not a NY cut steak? I think this is not far in the future.

[MoonRiver]

5. It's mainly good news for the animals.

I haven't eaten meat for 20 years and wouldn't be able to eat the lab grown kind either. Meat is disgusting to me. But I am very happy for all the lives that will be saved with this invention!

[pink-o]

7. thirty-five years for me!

I became a veggie at 22 in 1977 and never missed a minute of eating meat. So I would be one who wouldn't partake in lab-created steak and such. However, if it gets some of the methane-producing cattle and really, really polluting swine out of our environment, I'll support it.

One thing though: obviously I've been around a long time, and most everything I've seen where humans try to improve on nature is an Epic Fail. Evolution takes millions of years; for humankind to think they can recreate it under artificial, accelorated conditions is always cause for wariness!

(on edit: just read the Guardian article, and apparently the source of the Frankensteak is adult cattle stem cells. Dairy products notwithstanding, most vegetarians won't eat something that has its origins in living animals. Think I'll stick to my plant-based diet, which has kept me healthy and satisfied for most of my life.)

[MoonRiver]

20. Yay for you!

It's a little hard eating out, but we've managed to cope. Most restaurants are happy to offer vegetarian alternatives or change the ingredients around to accommodate us.

I do hope this works though. Would be awesome if factory farms could be totally eliminated simply through market forces. Oh, wait, that's already happening. Power to the animals!

[HappyMe]

6. No thank you.

[WCGreen]

8. At least it would never taste "gamey"...

I try not to eat meat more than twice a week.

That's good for me since I grew up with a butcher as an Uncle and we had steak twice a week, pork chops, cubed steaks, roasts, Hams.

We ate fish on Fridays, raised a Catholic...

Beef doesn't taste the same to me anymore. It has a wierd taste now that I can't put my finger on whch is why I make meat loaf or meat balls.

Chicken still tastes okay.

[hlthe2b]

10. Difference between grass fed beef of your youth and today's corn-fed, antibiotic laden, feed-lot

reared beef? I'd imagine that would explain part of the taste change.

[WCGreen]

18. I know that is a big factor...

But the forced slaughter of cattle in 18 months, caused by the corn feeding and the antibiotics and, I might add, hormones, don't allow for the marbeling that I remember so well.

There is a big dfference between 18 months and 24 months for maturity.

I would rather pay a little extra to get quality beef and eat less than buy crap and eat it more.

But even going to the "good" steak houses, I have found, doesn't gaurentee that rich marbled taste...

[hlthe2b]

9. Meh... unless they can grow lobster---

count me out!

If it became successful, would we even have cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, bison anymore? Just in zoos?

[lunatica]

11. Do you haves a leather jacket or shoes?

Leather comes form cattle and other animals are used for different types of skin or pelts.

[hlthe2b]

22. Yes... of course. Or is this in answer to ....

what will happen to livestock in the future? Do you think we would raise them only for their skins?

[lunatica]

27. I hope they wouldn't be raised for leather or skin or pelts solely

Perhaps something synthetic could be invented instead of using leather. Or maybe they would grow hides just like they grow human skin now to be used to make leather goods.

[hlthe2b]

28. Yes.. me either...

BUt, I would still hate to see cattle, sheep, and other livestock disappear...

[lunatica]

29. Cows give milk, and sheep give wool, both valuable

I don't think they'll disappear. It'll probably be a very long time before meat processing plants can produce enough meat to feed the world. Though I hope it catches on and turns out to be cheap and easy.

[hlthe2b]

30. One doesn't get milk without breeding dairy cattle-- gotta do something with all those bull calves..

and less than suitable females.

[LiberalEsto]

12. We'd probably still have chickens for the eggs

and their manure for gardens
but I agree the others will probably be kept in zoos if there is no point to breeding them aNY MORE.

[The Doctor.]

15. Everything goes free range.

We'll start to see hunting permits for pigs.

[hlthe2b]

23. Well, many do hunt wild board now...so....

[Javaman]

13. yeah, "lab grown meat" sounds so appetizing...

[The Doctor.]

14. Been following this for years now. Like it or not, it's the future.

Personally, I'm pretty happy about it. I like the idea of not tormenting animals for food.

[originalpckelly]

16. Opponents of this better stop eating yogurt...

This is meatgurt. That's all it is, it's like yogurt but the cells being cultured here are from a different species. That is it.

[rhett o rick]

21. LOL, McDonalds has been doing it for years. nm

[stockholmer]

24. absofuckinglutely

http://gizmodo.com/5654066/chicken-nuggets-are-made-from-this-pink-chicken-goop

Chicken Nuggets Are Made From This Pink Goop

This is mechanically separated chicken. Chickens are turned into this goop so we can create delicious chicken nuggets and juicy chicken patties. It's obscenely gross and borderline alien but it's not going to stop me from eating nuggets. They're too good.

The process works a little something like this:

There's more: because it's crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.

Yeah, that's just disgusting. But I can't shake my roots. I'm a chicken nugget fan (and all around fast food guy) for life.

[rhett o rick]

25. You left out what is allowed to go into "mechanically separated chicken".

I wont feed that crap to my cat. My brother-in-law is a different story, he's a Republican.

[Avalux]

26. I'm not a meat eater, and I won't eat engineered meat either.

I'll stick with my natural non-meat foods thank you very much. It is a good idea though, to reduce the number of cattle raised and killed for the sole purpose of human enjoyment.