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Lab-Grown Meat Chunks - It's What's For Dinner
jonerik writes "CNN has this story on a NASA-funded project being conducted at Touro College in New York. In the experiment, segments of muscle are cut from large goldfish and placed in a vat of 'nutrient-rich liquid,' with the fish chunks growing by 16% within a week. It is hoped that future developments will permit astronauts on long-term missions to include fresh meat in their diet without having to bring along actual animals and fish into space. New Scientist is also reporting the story."
If they could grow a new left testicle for me in a lab...
Getting closer to the "single-celled protiens packed with amino acids" that the guys from the Matrix were eating..
.. As long as it has a zesty orangle flavor, I'm all over it.
Why don't we just skip all this inbetween crap and go straight to that?
GROW YOUR PENIS 16% BIGGER IN JUST A WEEK WITH THIS NEW HIGH-TECH CREAM DEVELOPED BY NASA blablabla
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The scary part about this is... you know it will happen
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One has to wonder also, how will this fast food, if this is a way to lower prices another cent, i'm sure a few places will try this out at one time or another... ewww
Dunno, but I read a story once about a single fish and a loaf of bread expanding to feed a whole community...wait, that was the Bible.
Why don't the astronauts just drink the "nutrient-rich liquid" and save some effort?
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This presents a serious problem. Since they started with fish muscle tissue, you might assume that the resulting "tissue" was fish, but since it was grown in "a vat of fetal bovine serum", would that make it beef?
What to serve, red wine or white?
So THAT'S how Jesus did it! Now I'm all anxious for the scientific procedure that shows us how to turn water into wine!
-Craw
When burgers are dropped on the floor, the meat is usually thrown away. Maybe instead they will break them up and put them into the 'Burger Vat'.
Oh well, the food can't get *that* much worse, can it?
Eww
Sorry. :-) I couldn't resist...
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
I'd probably be just like tofu.
Hmm. Bringing new meaning to the phrase "you are what you eat", I see.
Would that be the first herd shot around the world?
Sorry, could not resist!
So, what happens when we can vat-grow large amounts of meat from small pieces of human flesh? Will human flesh become an item on the menus? Eh, it'll probably taste like chicken -- everything else does.
What's next? Growing a chicken heart in a vat?
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reading this - I just had a vision of some student rubbing this nutrient liquid all over his privates hoping for that 16% in a week....
but maybe im just sick....
don't act so repulsed...i think Kentucky Fried Chicken has been using this technique for years, minus the "nutrient rich liquid" of course...
it's practically unworkable keeping livestock on earth once the population starts approaching 10 billion
Once the population reaches 10 billion, we don't have to *keep* livestock any more. It's already there. 10 billion worth, in fact.
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