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.

Comments

Whats with the Spin

[imsabbel]

of the summary? If it tastes the same, i would have zero problems with artificial meat.
I dont actually enjoy having animals slaughtered just for fun.

I'm curious

[Minwee]

Where exactly did you get the idea that the meat you were eating now was somehow natural?

Re:w00t!

[njfuzzy]

Yes, just like artificial sweeteners taste like the finest quality cane sugar or honey. Truly an age of marvels we live in.

Re:i'll second that

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Remember, cow muscle evolved to move the cow around, not to feed people.

Not true. Mankind has been selectively breeding cattle for thousands of years. In that time we have literally bred them to be tasty. I remember seeing a while back a bit on CNN about cattler farmers using Ultrasound to measure the fat content and muscle mass of steer so they can tell who to stud before having to breed them, raise the offspring, then slaughter the offspring to get the information.

You also suffer from the falicy that any biomass is intended to be food. With the exception of milk and fruit, everything we eat was a creature or plant that had other ideas.