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There's a lot of noise these days about growing organs from stem cells. But I think there is a much more universal application for similar technology: why not simply grow muscle tissue from stem cells and sell it as meat.
If you can overcome the minor (I'm sure) technical issues involved, you can
have meat without cruelty, possibly grow it more efficiently, using less energy and emitting less methane. Think about it, the possibilities are endless: two pounds of hummingbird, the taste of endangered species like Amazon Dolphin, hybrids like white rhino - tarentula. All without killing anything.
Stem Cell Steak
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same idea though human meat and it was popular! [FarmerJohn, Mar 14 2005]
Vat Grown Food
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Redundant methinks. [Shz, Mar 14 2005]
Test-Tube Meat May Be En Route to Dinner Table
http://www.truthdig...706_test_tube_meat/
your idea is on its way to becoming a reality [Kociol, Jul 15 2006]
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There was some artist at MIT who was growing microscopic
meat sculptures. |
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Really? Let the link hunt begin.. |
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I suggest that you read up a bit on the mechanism by which organs are grown from stem-cells. You can't just dump a few stem-cells in a beaker, wait six weeks and pick out a nice fillet steak. Where do you think the new tissue comes from? |
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//Where do you think the new tissue comes from?// |
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I'm really tempted to start MFDing these things as magic/crap science. Growing or cultivating muscle tissue in a protein broth is extremely expensive, not to mention difficult. At least, it will be until Joe Lunchbucket learns how to do it in a washing machine. That's still a long way off. |
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If it was as simple as it's made to seem then there is no way that major agricultural conglomerates would go to the trouble of feedlotting, slaughtering and preparing meat for the food trade: they'd just install more tanks. |
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When the average meat processing plant is producing thousands of tons of finished product each day, and employing upwards of a thousand people to do it you can believe they have already looked at every possible way of reducing their processing overheads. |
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Yet another way of producing bland, cardboard like food, as if intensive farming wasn't bad enough. |
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Could this method be used to grow skeleton tissue, like fishbones? |
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That already appears to be working. |
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How's Mr. Lunchbucket getting on with his research anyway [UB]? |
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Reminds me of the cow thing in HHGTTG, the one that wants to be eaten. |
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They're doing a remake of the movie, by the way. I will definitely go see it. |
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//They're doing a remake of the movie// A remake of something that has never been made? |
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It was a TV series in the UK. |
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