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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 guess Giz Mag doesn't mean what I thought it did.
"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
"cruelty-free"???
What about the folks who have to eat this stuff?
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.
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Soylent Green. It's who's for dinner.
They've been serving this stuff in school lunch rooms across the nation for decades! Usually covered with cold greasy brown gravy.
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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.
> As for truly artificial m**t, there wouldn't be any cruelty to animals in the production, but there must have been cruelty to animals in the initial discovery process {i.e. working out what it was supposed to taste like in the first place} which would be enough to put some people off.
What if a human volunteered his inital cells to grow meat in a vat? No cruelty. You can't get more ethical than that, and you would still get to eat Matt.
> You might say this in jest, but I'd be interested in hearing what ethical vegetarians think about eating cruelty-free meat.
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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.
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Nobody wants "cruelty free" meat. The cruelty is where all the flavor comes from!