Posted on 09/26/2009 12:57:07 PM PDT by decimon
A controversial cooker that 'grows' meat and fish by heating animal cells in your kitchen claimed first prize in the Electrolux design competition tonight.
The invention, called Cocoon, could develop food with the make-up and nutrients of real meat.
Mr Hederstierna, 27, said: 'This will create 100 per cent pure meat without the need for animals to be killed and with no risk of contamination. It will change everything.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Do you mean The Chicken Heart?
We’re getting closer to that Star Trek innovation, the replicator.
No, thanks, Deer season just opened in this area and I think I will kill my own meat(real meat)
I mean Chicken Little, the huge mass of vat-grown cultured chicken breast from e.g ‘The Space Merchants’, by Frederik Pohl.
IIRC Chicken Little is also referenced in other Sci-Fi novels
Well I was going to say that the recipe for meat in this cooker is “first you need one fresh granny, one onion, chopped and 2 tps basil.
The fact remains that the world has more than adequate food and food production. The problem is with oppressive and badly run governments. Famines in Africa are almost entirely man made and caused by the dictatorial governments using hunger as a weapon against their enemies. Here in America we are right now shutting down massive Food Production in the California Central Valley because of the Delta Smelt. Proper use of agricultural technologies, transportation and the elimination of Thug regimes would go a much longer way in reducing food shortages.would
You are completely correct.
Might be useful in space though.
I couldn’t find anything on “The Chicken Heart” - aside from something insane to do with Xenu :0)
Is that where the term is from, Scientology?
LOL. No, just google "chicken Heart 1934" and look at the first result. It is an old sci-fi story.
(I should have known that Xenu would make an appearance on this thread somewhere.)
;-)
I think we are talking about versions of the same story.
Interesting, thanks!
That might be where Pohl or Kornbluth or whoever got the idea from.
Listening to the creepy story now, thanks!
At least what was shown supposedly taste something like salmon.
Hmmm... the FSM casting Lucifer out of Heaven?
Listened to it all, its a great little story.
The ‘Chicken Little’ of Pohl et al was like a ‘domesticated’ version of the Chicken Heart: workers would cut at it with knifes as it grew, sending the meat off to feed the hungry masses of the Ehrlich-style dystopia of the novel.
And every year or so, some unlucky worker would stumble, and fall into Chicken Little, and be engulfed. And you couldn’t turn Chicken Little’s growth off to rescue them - they were just gone (shudder).
And the meat from Chicken Little was a bit richer that day (shudder)
knifes = knives
And the meat from Chicken Little was a bit richer that day (shudder)
Shudder is right. LOL.
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