Posted on 12/01/2009 12:40:04 AM PST by bronzey
"What we have at the moment is rather like wasted muscle tissue," Post told the newspaper. "We need to find ways of improving it by training it and stretching it, but we will get there. This product will be good for the environment and will reduce animal suffering. If it feels and tastes like meat, people will buy it."
The newspaper said the scientists took cells from a live pig's muscles and immersed them in a mixture of other animal products. The cells reportedly multiplied and created muscle tissue that could be turned into something resembling steak by artificially "exercising" it, The Sunday Times said.
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This guy is in for a surprise because I am not going to eat Franken-pork. I am not going to chow down on runny, drippy testubey faux-shrimp.
SOILENT GREEN IS....
No.
Real Men Eat Real Steaks.
Meat is murder.....tasty, tasty murder......
When you die, can you ask how many chickens you ate? And how many cows? That would be shocking. I bet I’ve polished off entire herds/coops/dens.
I believe we owe them the dignity of a decent quality of life. I am sure that they love life as long as they get to live it. I even believe that their souls go on in the care of their Creator. The Bible says that the LORD even cares about the sparrow.
For right now we are meat eaters sanctioned by The LORD. In the New World things will be different.
The Bible prophesied that in the end times that people would be characterized as "forbidding to eat meat", which of course we see coming to past before our eyes.
1Ti 4:1 ¶ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1Ti 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1Ti 4:4 For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1Ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Luk 12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Isa 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isa 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
Isa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Vat grown meat has been a staple of science fiction for many years. I expect this will arrive sooner than we expect.
When we consider how animals like pigs and chickens are stuffed with growth hormones, fed, slaughtered and packaged in virtual factories, I don’t see this as much of a difference. Once they get the bugs out, that is.
Naturally, it will create new divisions. Folks like you will be snobbish about it and swear never to touch anything that didn’t have a “face”, but it will be equally interesting how the animal rights types respond.
Will they chow down on vat raised pigs and chickens? Is meat still murder if it was never part of a living animal?
Free Franken-pork for the poor and homeless.
And its also like garlic to a vampire as to around Muslims.
What do they mean, I wonder, by other animal products? Do they mean milk or eggs? If they mean product taken from dead animals isn't this defeating their purpose?
“I’ll get banned if I write what I’m thinking” ping!
Indeed. If I ever go vegan it will be for this reason. I've never seen the inner workings of a beef of pork farm. If I did something tells me I would be horrified by what I saw.
About Electronic Muscle Stimulators
Electronic muscle stimulators are medical devices that treat a variety of muscle ... benefits of electrical medical therapies didn’t truly emerge until the mid-1960s. ... improve muscle function, not to increase muscle size or appearance. ... Instead of focusing on muscle-stimulation, a “TENS unit” uses electrical ...
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My Dad had a unit. I think it was called something like “”. It had pds you wet and placed at each end of the muscle froup you wanted to work on and a control box to regulate how much of a jolt you got. Anyone out there rember the unit?
“Relax-O-Sizer” is the missing word
More than liked it, really. Dirk Moeller came from a long line of carnivores and proudly ate animal flesh at every meal. Most people didn't do that anymore. And when they did eat meat, they picked out a tube of vatted meat product, made from cultivated tissue that never required the butchering of an animal, or even the participation of any sort of animal outside of the purely mythical. The best selling vetted meat product on the market was something called Kingston's Bison Boar™, some godforsaken agglomeration of bovine and pig genes stretched across a cartilaginous scaffolding and immersed in a nutrient broth until it grew into something that was meatlike without being meaty, paler than veal, lean as a lizard and so animal friendly that even strict vegetarians didn't mind tucking in a Bison Boar Burger™ or two when the mood struck them. Kingston's corporate mascot was a pig with a bison shag and horns, frying up burgers on a hibachi, winking at the customer in third-quarter profile, licking its lips in anticipation of devouring its own fictional flesh. The thing was damned creepy."The Android's Dream", John Scalzi
I suppose the new “meat” will be served at the next St Alphonso’s Pancake Beakfast.
I love the newspapers. There’s a picture in the link labeled “for illustrative purposes only.” It’s a thick, juicy, BEEF steak!
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