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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.
its called SPAM
Sarcasm and hyperbole are the final refuges for weak minds
I'm a vegetarian
sorry 'bout the mess...
I guess Giz Mag doesn't mean what I thought it did.
I wonder if this will be one of the first steps toward protein resequencers and eventually food replicators. Star Trek, here I come!
"Looks like meat, tastes like meat, I'll bet there isn't any meat in here. Doubleplusgood!" - 1984
Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich but the boss gets richer off you. --Dead Kennedys
Taco Bell has meat made out of used napkins and sauce, so I don't really see how this is a big deal.
...is brought to you by Soylent red and Soylent yellow, high energy vegetable concentrates, and new, delicious, Soylent green. The miracle food of high-energy plankton gathered from the oceans of the world.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
So I gotta hire a pastamancer now?
Not that this wasn't entirely predictable.
Damn dude, that's fucking nasty. Seriously.
Why not just walk up to a cow and take a bite out of their shoulder? It amounts to the same thing.
Man invented fire for a reason.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
They've been serving this stuff in school lunch rooms across the nation for decades! Usually covered with cold greasy brown gravy.
[Insert pithy quote here]
Can I use my Super Bass-O-Matic 76?
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
God, yes. The last thing we need is the world's poor getting hold of a luxury like meat. I'm personally going to blow my brains out when the first malnourished Somalian takes a bite into that sinful essence of Satan.
Man invented fire for a reason.
On that note, man invented water because he was thirsty.
Makes sense?
Live forever, or die trying.
100% of the people I've talked to who have played Russian roulette have never had any ill effects either.
That does bring to mind odd thoughts of vegans eating vat-grown hamburgers while watching humans kill each other on CNN.
If they admit that it's a dupe right in the article, does that make it a dupe?
If slashdot dupes an article in the middle of a forest, and nobody's around to yell "DUPE!", is it new news?
+5, Truth
SPAceMeat
I'm afraid not. Most deli meat comes from certain cuts of the Spamalope. Shoulder cuts ususally taste like ham, limb and joint cuts taste like capricola and bolognia, and the haunch tastes like...spam.
The statement "This spam tastes like ass!" is therefore redundant.
Spamalope are native to the Hudson Valley area in New York (the state), which is why the best deli meat comes from New York City. The Yiddish word for the Spamalope is Delicatessen.
Once they covered the landscape from horizon to horizon, but their numbers have been drastically reduced. The only known free range spamalope are now controlled by a consortium of deli meat companies, particularly Hormel and Oscar Meyer.
It is rumored you can still hear the lonesome mating cry of the Spamalope in the wilds of Yonkers and Sheboygan, but most people write it off as just another Urban Ledgend.
Hope that clears things up.
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"If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" --Voltaire
Stop, you're making me hungry.
But on the bright side, if you are lonely you could go next door to borrow a cup of meat.
I lost my sig...
Sure, but only if you can guarantee that those free-range humans didn't eat McDonald's food every week and inject themselves with questionable pharmaceuticals. If you had some pen-raised humans (and not our prisons, they have high incidence of AIDS and hard drug use) then that would be OK.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
Nobody wants "cruelty free" meat. The cruelty is where all the flavor comes from!
There are plenty of technologically-induced distopias to worry about.
;-)
Yeah, like the horrid age of computers where people can't spell...