Posted on 09/05/2015 4:09:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Brooklyn startup Modern Meadow says it is developing laboratory-grown meat but the process currently relies on the blood of unborn calves
Meat without murder, or “animal” flesh grown in a lab for human consumption, has been touted as an ethical gourmand’s dream for nearly a century, but is it a fantasy too good to be true?
Not according to Modern Meadow, a Brooklyn biotech startup that is promising to bring so-called in vitro meat to a dinner table near you, although it is not without its critics.
According to its website, Modern Meadow is developing “animal products with no animal slaughter”, which they also refer to as “cultured” meat and leather. Modern Meadow’s co-founder, Andras Forgacs, has made many promises for his product. “By the end of the year, I think we’ll be able to produce a two centimeter by two centimeter sample of leather that’s made without killing an animal,” he told Fast Company in 2012. And “growing cultured meat … harms no animals in the process”, he told a Reddit’s Ask Me Anything in 2013.
Forgacs has managed to garner not only an immense amount of interest, but financing as well: to date, his company has raised more than $13m from high-profile backers, such as Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs, Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures and even the US Department of Agriculture.
Despite the excitement, Modern Meadow’s methods remain murky. While Forgacs and his investors have in the past stated that the company would be 3D printing its in vitro meat, Modern Meadow is using “donor” animal cells grown in a “cell culture” to produce sheets of tissue that can be layered into meat. Though Forgacs has been eager to discuss this process in general terms, earlier interviews with him have noted his reluctance to explain its specifics, and multiple requests
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I am sure agree but butchering a cow or a pig is not murder
Hmm, it may solve the bovine flatulence debacle...
but what if you are craving shortribs?
I can see the problem with factory processing. However, what’s so wrong with humane killing when the animal has had a good life and freedom to do what they do. My livestock usually die with no fear and food in their mouths.
So will we still be able to get milk form contented cows?
I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I hate plants.
NEXT STEP: Soylent Green
A gall bladder, two stomachs and a tongue?
Do I win?
Tastes like chicken?
3 He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord,[a] do not pass your servant by. 4 Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. 5 Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.”
“Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”
6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs[b] of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”
7 Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. 8 He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
If it is OK for God to eat lamb, then it is OK for us too. God did not consider it murder. This is simple foolishness. Murder refers to humans, not animals. Once again, the left makes a false premise, controls the dialog through the language and forces everyone to conform to their false reasoning. Nonsense.
I think it originally had meat in it, but he may have taken it out because of complaints.
I would not eat that. We are part of the food chain too, we just happen to be at the top of it.
And under no circumstances should killing animals for food be considered “murder”.
Hey, you want to be a vegetarian? Go for it, I support you.
You want to be a vegan? I think you’re nuts.
You want to eat meat but not kill animals? You make the vegans look sensible.
So it is a variant of an aborted calf?
A sign in a local BBQ joint reads...”I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat grass”
The people who use the term “murder” to categorize meat products are the same people who refuse to eat modern hybrid produce because it’s all to mysterious and scary. And this company thinks they are going to buy lab cloned meat? ROTFL
” We are part of the food chain too, we just happen to be at the top of it.”
You probably wouldn’t enjoy eating dinner at my house, LOL.
How does it taste and how much does it cost. I don’t care if it’s murderless.
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