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Large Scale Production of Artificial Meat
Fraser Cain writes "Scientists at the University of Maryland think that large quantities of artificial meat could be produced to supply the world with animal-free meat products, like chickenless nuggets. This is based on experiments for NASA, that created small amounts of fish protein cultured from single cells. According to the researchers, larger quantities could be grown in thin sheets and then stacked up to create thickness. Of course, they need to figure out a way to exercise it to make it taste like regular meat."
I already get those at McDonalds today - who needs these acedemics to come up with this when you can just go out and buy it in the store?
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
I can't wait to head down to the local supermarket and buy some "I Can't Believe It's Not Steak".
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I think it's more likely that people won't bite even if it does taste exactly the same as real meat. It's just not the same in most people's eyes. As for me, I'll eat it if it's cheaper or significantly better tasting. I also have to be able to grill it.
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Virtual veal!
It's not real!
Taste'll give you zeal!
Has a good feel!
It can be steak!
But yet it's fake!
It's quick to bake!
No animals at stake!
Virtual veal!
It's a good deal!
Has lots of appeal!
Make it your meal!
Honestly people, it's barbaric to eat animals.
Eating meat is natural for people, and a number of other animals as well. There is nothing barbaric about eating the foods that your body is meant to. Now if you were saying the modern treatment of livestock is often barbaric, I'd be inclined to agree, but these are two different matters entirely.
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Why do those who are trying so hard to eliminate animal meat try so hard to make the replacements look, feel, and taste like meat? I've never understood that.
I'm not sure about the economics, but one would think eventually it would be cheaper to grow meat in a vat than raise a few million animals, pay for their feed, clean their waste, and then spend the time and money shipping them off to the slaughter house.
At least it would take less energy and be more environmental friendly or don't stink up the local area...
Ever drove by a pig farm? They have a ton by the coast in North Carolina and they don't call em pigs for nothing.
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There won't be millions of animals living in filthy terrible conditions.
I think them not living through that by not living, would be better. But that's just an opinion.
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... to be the seed plasm for delicious roast haunch of human.
That way, millions of people across the earth could finally eat my butt for real, instead of my just screaming for them to do it from street corners.
Hot dogs sell pretty well, actually.
OK, so if the whole point of a vegan or vegetarian's lifestyle is to preserve life, ponder this. Over 100,000 animals are killed every time 1 acre of land is plowed to plant those precious soybeans. And I'm not counting insects here, just mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Mice, gophers, groundhogs, snakes, frogs, salamanders, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
What makes a cow's life more important than the life of a frog, or a snake, or a little mouse?
If saving life was the most important aspect of your culinary habits, then you would be eating blue whales and elephants, as one death would feed so many people.
Yes, there is way more than a hint of sarcasm in my reply here, but I"m sick of hearing the rhetoric of vegetarians and vegans who claim that I am in some way inferior to them because I eat meat. Now, I'm far from the average. I raise, slaughter and butcher my own meat as much as I can on 5 acres. That way I know it lived an above average life, and was in optimum health at the time it died.
Lastly, for anyone who wants to cut out all meat from their diet, please, please research B vitamins from a non-vegetarian source. B12 is something that can not be replicated by plants, and the various 'vegan' forms of B12 out there are incapable of being absorbed by the human digestive system. Side effects of B12 deficiency are: mental illness, paralysis, continual chronic pain syndromes, and virtually every other nervous disorder in the book.
I've had friends go vegan, and can personally attest to the fact that it changes them mentally, they are plagued with depression, and physical disorders. One fried in particular keeps breaking ribs from caughing, because her bone mass dropped so quickly from malnutrition. And yet, she became so preachy about how superiour her lifestyle was.
I've always said that the one universal application for cloning research is the development of vat-grown meat.
Cruelty free, vegan-friendly. It could be engineered for the perfect protein, fat and mineral content while maintaining perfect flavor.
Imagine a sea of perfectly marbled, gristle-free beef filets.... droooool....
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And if you ever wanted a reason to quit: http://www.peta.org/
Please see http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=peta
Peta are a bunch of lying fanatics.
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If it's cheap, nutritious, and almost tasty expect to see it in public schools.
If it's cheap, nutritious, and gross, expect to see it in prisons.
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Finally, a post that really begs for a "WTF?!" mod to be added.
Oh come on, this is absurd.
Do you realize how many more resources -- land and fresh water -- are consumed in producing meat than in producing vegetable crops? Livestock are either fed other livestock or vegetable crops. There is no possible way to use fewer resources to produce a pound of animal protein vs a pound of soy protein.
That ethical reason is what motivates me in limiting my meat intake to fish and chicken and limiting my intake of those as much as I can. The most resources are used in producing red meat, followed by pork, then fish and chicken, but a pure-vegetable diet uses the least.
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My gut instinct says the same thing, but I'm practical about things and won't call it "fact" until I've seen some numbers.
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