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2011-06-27 Home Front: Culture Wars
Lab-grown meat 'needed to feed the world'
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Posted by CrazyFool 2011-06-27 00:28|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Bullshit.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-06-27 03:00||   2011-06-27 03:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I like calamari.
Posted by Skidmark 2011-06-27 03:50||   2011-06-27 03:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Soylent Pink!
Posted by Clem Glavising9449 2011-06-27 06:46||   2011-06-27 06:46|| Front Page Top

#4 But what do they have to feed these cells in order to grow?
Posted by Spot 2011-06-27 08:05||   2011-06-27 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 But what do they have to feed these cells in order to grow?

See #1
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-06-27 08:28||   2011-06-27 08:28|| Front Page Top

#6 The taste will be different because it won't have any blood.
Posted by Ptah 2011-06-27 09:07||   2011-06-27 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 They already are doing it.

Soylent Brown.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscSKq3kzbo
Posted by Every Day a Wildcat(KSU) 2011-06-27 09:19||   2011-06-27 09:19|| Front Page Top

#8 one small burger for a man

one giant bite for mankind
Posted by Lord Garth 2011-06-27 09:27||   2011-06-27 09:27|| Front Page Top

#9 GM Crops bad.

Stem Veal good.

The only thing more full of it than Europe must be Sciam. These are the same people who put together a full spread advocating - yes the right word - the reintroduction of ice age animals to roam freely across the midwest. Basically, op-ed spreads.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-06-27 10:46||   2011-06-27 10:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Something new for the frankenfood crowd to go nuts over.
Posted by My two cents 2011-06-27 11:18||   2011-06-27 11:18|| Front Page Top

#11 If they could make it so the finished product was almost identical to the original, this would be a wonderful invention. It would allow for cheap meat that a lot of the world craves and keeps a lot of pathogens out of the food chain.

Personally, I think it is a good idea to try. If they can get a nice marbled steak grown in the lab for $1/pound, I'm all over that!
Posted by DarthVader 2011-06-27 11:23||   2011-06-27 11:23|| Front Page Top

#12 The answer, Spot (#4) is grant money.
Posted by Bobby 2011-06-27 12:01||   2011-06-27 12:01|| Front Page Top

#13 But what do they have to feed these cells in order to grow?

Ah, someone hits the nail on the head. Growing cells in industrial quantities is a matter of applied technology. The "What to feed them?" question is economics.

Your basic cow is essentially an bioreactor that takes a low-grade input, grass, and uses it to culture micro-organisms that feed on otherwise indigestible cellulose. The cow processes the micro-oranisms into tasty cow-meat that we find on our grocer's shelves. To be economical, you are going to have to beat Cow + Grass = Meat.

As for SciAm, once upon a time, it was a scientific journal back before it turned into Discovery Lite.
Posted by SteveS 2011-06-27 13:01||   2011-06-27 13:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Also, what it is fed has a tremendous effect upon the flavor.

This sounds to have more of a medical field than food industry application.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-06-27 14:12||   2011-06-27 14:12|| Front Page Top

#15 Will this be a good replacement for Brown-25?
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-06-27 15:40||   2011-06-27 15:40|| Front Page Top

#16 We will have no choice. Only the politically connected or wealthy will be able to indulge in the real thing. It will be marketed as positively as possible. Turn in your appliances for credits. Exciting, fun, healthy and convenient. Health why worry. This food will make you young and live years longer. Citizen it is your duty to save the planet for yourself and future generations. With the medical history we have we can produce for you your optimum needs (valium, lithium etc.for that little extra kick).
Posted by Dale 2011-06-27 16:24||   2011-06-27 16:24|| Front Page Top

#17 What else are they gonna grow in that teet tube?
Posted by Perfesser 2011-06-27 23:10||   2011-06-27 23:10|| Front Page Top

#18 I meant test. Bad eyes plus iToy equals bad typing.
Posted by Perfesser 2011-06-27 23:11||   2011-06-27 23:11|| Front Page Top

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