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.

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Re:My opinion (as one of 'those' folk)

[Marc2k]

Are you serious? I'm not vegan because I hate the taste of meat or think that humans are not, by nature, omnivores, I do it because I object to the manner with which animals are created, treated, and slaughtered, and because, unlike a wolf, fox, bear, or shark, I have the presence of mind to question where my food comes from and explore alternatives, so don't give me that crap either. It's a question of morals, not preference. Humans have evolved to be omnivorous. If I were removed from "the grid", and were forced to kill and eat an animal for sustainence, I would. That is, if I were forced to, that statement doesn't apply if I'm in the far lot of a KOA campground, and run out of veggie burgers in my Coleman cooler, and am too lazy to go the grocery store.