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Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen
jdray writes "Australia's GizMag is running an article about the industrialization of a NASA-tested concept for artificially creating meat. The article mentions meat makers as home appliances. Carne-Matic aside, this sounds like a mixed blessing, and brings about visions of some sterile, Spandex-jumpsuit future where food production is controlled by some central authority, and real, hoof-grown meat is a rare delicacy. Remember, Soylent Green is people!" You can read a curiously familiar Slashdot story from a month ago too.
Well, seeing as the cow and chicken are products of nature, they are by definition natural.
Look at the lion. The eagle. They eat meat. Why shouldn't we? Look at your ancestors who ate meat before you. Look at historical records. Why not? Because we think we are morally superior? We are intellectually superior, therefore we have the innate right to eat what can't outrun us.
Fucking troll.
-everphilski-
So much for "cruelty" or "flatulance-driven global warming" as credible reasons why some of the more extreme PETA folks want to put a gun to my head to force me to eat tofu.
If this meat can be grown without gristle, if; even it can be genetically modified to contain less harmful stuff, and more helpful nutrients, I say; I, for one, welcome our new lab-grown filet overlords!
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
---Whether you believe it or not, you are being poisoned. It may or may not be intentional, and I don't care if it is or isn't. But the fact of the matter is that the food production chain in most western nations is destroying the health of the consumers. There are a high number of chemicals that have found their way into the food supply due to their inexpensive provision of preservative, aesthetic and texture properties. Many of these chemicals may be the underlying cause of various chronic illnesses that are becoming epidemics in the western world. But we will never know because to compound the problem we are also being overmedicated.
Lemee guess... You're one of those enviro-wackos from say, Seattle, Oregon?
"Underlying chemicals", eh? DO you cook your meat under any sort of heating appratus? Do you have any idea what that meat turns into? There's tons of carcinogenic chemicals in that cooked meat. Also, do you wash your fruit? You just washed off most all the water solulable vitamins they have.
---One of the worst ingredients that has found it's way into too much of the food supply is white processed sugar. One can of soft drink can contain up to 14 tablespoons of sugar in it. Sugar also has some light preservative qualities and tends to make everything taste better. In small quantities, sugar is mildly harmful.
Mildly harmful? WTF? Hows about quantity, not "OMG ITS CANE SUGAR!!!111". Hell, even diet coke has been shown that it messes with the body sugar regulation.
---But at the rate that we ingest sugar, it is downright dangerous. Don't believe me? Next time you are at the grocery, pick up most prepared foods and look at the ingredients. You'll find that sugar or high fructose corn syrup is in nearly everything.
Well, what would you suggest? Have you ever baked anything? Many things have sugar or require sugar.
---It's a bit frightening especially since I had a personal health issue that no doctor could solve until I cut food with sugar out of my diet. Compounded with the medications that doctors tried to give me to cure my sinus infections, I continued to get more and more ill rather than get better. But once I stopped taking the antibiotics and the prevacid and dumped white sugar, white rice, white flour, corn syrup and honey ouf of my diet, my various illnesses went away. It's been about three years now and my health is better than ever.
Ok. You just sound like a hypochondriac. You're prolly just some slob who was feeding his face 1 too many whoppers per day and came to the conclusion that you might be killing yourself. But now its the big nasty bugaboo "SUGAR!!!"not how you ate, you fatass tub of lard. And, by the way, docs cant help you if you dont follow the doctor reccomended course of action. And that means staying away from those fucking twinkies.