(Although a "tube snake" is an altogether different thing.)
Posted on 08/15/2005 12:33:26 PM PDT by sittnick
A research team is proposing a new technique that would allow meat to be grown in a laboratory for mass consumption, according to a report.
Researchers in the U.S. say the technology now exists now to produce processed meats such as burgers and sausages, starting with cells taken from cows, chickens, pigs, fish or other animals.
Growing meat without the animal would not only reduce the need for the animals -- which often are kept in less than ideal conditions -- but may also address a number of environmental ills blamed on meat production.
Cultured meat could also be tailored to be healthier than farm-raised meat, while satisfying the increasing demand for protein by the world's growing population, proponents say.
Industrializing the process could involve growing muscle cells on large sheets or beads suspended in a growth medium.
Once the cells have grown enough, they could be scraped off and packaged. If edible sheets or beads are used, all of it could be eaten.
But butchers and vegetarians are just two groups of people who are yet to be convinced.
"To he honest anything they can do with test tubes or whatever, it can't be made," butcher Rodney Macken said.
"I don't like eating a cow that's been pumped full of growth hormones that artificially grow it so it gets onto our plates quicker," a diner said. " I would feel the same about a lump of meat that had been pumped full of chemicals and that had been artificially modified."
Supporters also said growing meat would reduce the number of animals killed and cut environmental waste that comes from livestock.
I was going to post a picture, of Charlton Heston, but tinypic has done something to their site and it's really slow.
TMI, the pervs.
Hey, they grow babies in test tubes, why not?
It can be freeze dried and sent into famine areas for relief that isn't just fat and carbs. Lots of good things can be done with this stuff. No, I won't eat it, but I bet there are some people who would literally beg for a cheap source of protein.
To add to your discomfort,I'll bet it comes out of the butts of bacteria.
"PING" thought you might be interested in this mess.
What with the amount of chemicals and hormones that are pumped into factory chicken and cattle, it's not much worse.
Just makes you realise that some people have never eaten free-range, pasture fed beef or chicken doesn't it!
If God had not wanted us to eat animals He would not have made them out of meat.
"Good thing we didn't step in it".
Well I can tell you that does nothing to make me feel better about it.
Agricultural bioterrorism would be much more difficult if this stuff formed a significant part of the meat supply.
Can you grow it to specific flavors? You know, rocky road ham?
Bacteria have butts?
Huge trees that grow meat.
And day laborers who speak no English picking the meat off the trees and putting it in their bushel baskets.
(Although a "tube snake" is an altogether different thing.)
This should make the Peta-philes happy.
Nope. No butt.
This would be after the "spaghetti harvest"?
Tube Snake Boogie Lyrics
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When she boogie,
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She kinda funky with her pink and black socks.
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She do the tube snake boogie.
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I got a girl, she lives on the hill.
She won't do it but her sister will,
When she boogie,
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Well now boogie little baby,
Boogie woogie all night long.
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