Lab-Grown Leather Could Be a Reality In 5 Years

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Lab-Grown Leather Could Be a Reality In 5 Years

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @04:41AM from the looking-forward-to-leather-sheets dept.

fangmcgee writes "Lab-grown leather apparel could hit the runways in as little as five years—all without harming a hair on a single animal's head, according to Andras Forgacs, co-founder and CEO of Modern Meadow, a Missouri-based startup that's approaching meat-and-leather production from a tissue-bioengineering, rather than farming, point of view. Backed by Breakout Labs, the grant-awarding foundation headed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Modern Meadow seeks to combine regenerative medicine with three-dimensional printing to synthesize leather and ultimately meat."

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Now dawns the age by Ukab+the+Great · 2012-09-25 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Of ethical bondage equipment.
1. Re:Now dawns the age by gstoddart · 2012-09-25 05:16 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Actually there are already a number of suppliers for vegan kinksters.
  Wow, that's the fastest I've seen rule #34 apply to a thread in a while. :-P
  
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2. Re:Now dawns the age by gstoddart · 2012-09-25 05:28 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Which is suddenly making me wonder ... do vegan chicks swallow? Seems it would be an animal byproduct.
  OK, I'm a bad bad person, I know. ;-)
  
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3. Re:Now dawns the age by OhSoLaMeow · 2012-09-25 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  do vegan chicks swallow?
  Only until they marry.
  
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Re:Headline-Generating Verbage by tnk1 · 2012-09-25 05:12 · Score: 4, Funny

I could discover sustainable cold fusion in as little as 5 years. Of course, there is always the chance it may take me longer, or forever.
I already have discovered it. It works perfectly and solves all the energy issues we might have for a few hundred years of constant growth.
The only obstacle that is in front of me is just finding the right lobbyist to help get a repeal for certain regressive laws of nature currently on the books.