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Scientists have discovered a way to ‘grow’ meat—and make it cheap and delicious
WAPO ^ | May 21, 2015 | Roberto A. Ferdman

Posted on 05/21/2015 9:16:27 AM PDT by PROCON

Meat — despite popular movements to decrease the amount humans consume — is still a central part of diets around the world. People who live in industrial countries (like the United States) eat roughly 210 pounds of it each year.

And consumption in the developing world, where people eat closer to 66 pounds each year, is climbing fast. Growth is such that by 2030 the average human is expected to consume just under 100 pounds per year, 10 percent more than today.

Our collective affinity for meat likely began out of circumstance — humans that lived inland from the coast had little choice but to hunt in order to live — and has persisted for evolutionary reasons. Meat carries nutrients like zinc and protein, promotes growth, and provides energy. It also doesn't hurt that the price of meat has fallen dramatically.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; meat; shmeat
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Will people warm up to shmeat?

Uh, no, unless shmacon looks and tastes like this...


1 posted on 05/21/2015 9:16:28 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

How to grow meat - start with a baby cow and feed it....


2 posted on 05/21/2015 9:18:41 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: PROCON
More (slime?)
3 posted on 05/21/2015 9:19:27 AM PDT by yoe
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To: PROCON

Syolant Green ????


4 posted on 05/21/2015 9:21:54 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: PROCON

And if you work in the factory and someone asks what you’re doing for a living...

So what are you doing these days?

Oh I’m makin Bacon.

You like that better than your last job?

Yeah, the boss was always on my ass at the fudge packin plant.


5 posted on 05/21/2015 9:22:02 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: PROCON

I wonder what the left’s reaction to this will be -
because it’s never about what they complain about on the surface (cruel to animals, takes too much land, etc),

they really don’t want people to indulge in meat eating.


6 posted on 05/21/2015 9:23:39 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: PROCON

I’ve been getting e-mails advertisements about this for years.


7 posted on 05/21/2015 9:24:51 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: cripplecreek

LOL!

BTW—I’ll pass on the fake meat…I could do okay living on fruits and veggies—until they figure some way to destroy them, too…..


8 posted on 05/21/2015 9:25:33 AM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: PROCON

Bad news for the chinese. This is going to cut into their lucrative counterfeit meat business.


9 posted on 05/21/2015 9:25:50 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: MrB

Right you are. It isn’t even that they don’t want people to indulge in eating meat, it’s that they want to be able to prohibit people from eating meat. Or, for that matter, anything else that strikes their fancy.


10 posted on 05/21/2015 9:28:39 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PROCON

Where are all the natural food purists? I would think they would be up in arms agains “franken meat” made in a lab. However, I suppose PETA is all in favor of synthetic meat.


11 posted on 05/21/2015 9:29:23 AM PDT by The Great RJ (“Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.” Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Billthedrill

“We don’t want you to enjoy that because...”
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“well, we’ll come up with some sort of feel-good excuse for it”


12 posted on 05/21/2015 9:29:58 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: basil

It won’t be halal.


13 posted on 05/21/2015 9:33:49 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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....is still a central part of diets around the world

The lions and tigers and hyenas (a lot more, too) wholeheartedly concur!

14 posted on 05/21/2015 9:34:33 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: cripplecreek

She’s so fine
She’s so sweet
Mom and Pop they raised her
On huge slabs of meat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHjpWo4edfw

Or

Grab yourself a can of pork soda
You’ll be feeling just fine
Ain’t nothin’ quite like sittin’ ‘round the house
Swillin’ down them Cans of swine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9gqStFxAo4


15 posted on 05/21/2015 9:34:35 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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“Meat — is still a central part of diets around the world”

As it has throughout human history, which is why we have canine teeth that are longer than the rest of our teeth and why caves that are hundreds of thousands of years old are full of cooked animal bones, and why if our ancestors hadn’t eaten animal products for hundreds of thousands of years, they would have quickly died out because that’s the only way for them (and us) to obtain vitamin B-12 in nature.

Oh, and BTW, looking at the process of “growing” artificial meat, it looks like it will be completely bereft of B-12, which means it won’t be life-sustaining as would real meat.


16 posted on 05/21/2015 9:35:01 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: PROCON

humans have been growing meat for thousands and thousands of years.


17 posted on 05/21/2015 9:37:12 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: cripplecreek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJKpGlu0-k


18 posted on 05/21/2015 9:37:45 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: PROCON

And it’s gonna look like ....?


19 posted on 05/21/2015 9:40:20 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: PROCON

Scientists were making imitation meat forty years ago by growing large mushrooms on blood soaked wood chips.

They said you could not tell the difference from it and a real meat. Obviously it did not go over.


20 posted on 05/21/2015 9:41:25 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (.)
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