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Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the future-is-now-or-something dept.

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.

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  1. I think they already did this... by bladernr · · Score: 5, Funny

    its called SPAM

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  2. GizMag by SpaceAdmiral · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Giz Mag doesn't mean what I thought it did.

  3. Re:You Insensitive Clod!... by oriole1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "cruelty-free"???

    What about the folks who have to eat this stuff?

  4. Re:Society of people scared of acne... by grasshoppa · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Re:Soylent Green is people! by andreMA · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ah yes.

    Soylent Green. It's who's for dinner.

  6. Re:Society of people scared of acne... by Ced_Ex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man invented fire for a reason.

    On that note, man invented water because he was thirsty.

    Makes sense?

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  7. Skewed statistics by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 5, Funny
    Eat that fucking natural meat and cook it rare. When you are making some hamburger, wad up a ball, add some pepper and salt and eat it. I've done it since I was a kid and never had any ill effects.

    100% of the people I've talked to who have played Russian roulette have never had any ill effects either.

  8. Re:You Insensitive Clod!... by falzer · · Score: 5, Funny

    > 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.