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Dutch try to grow enviro-friendly meat in lab
Reuters ^
| Fri Jun 1, 2007
| Reed Stevenson
Posted on 06/01/2007 3:06:04 PM PDT by Pilsner
UTRECHT, The Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork meat in a laboratory with the goal of feeding millions without the need to raise and slaughter animals.
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But it will take years before meat grown in labs and eventually factories reaches supermarket shelves. And so far, Roelen and his team have managed to grow only thin layers of cells that bear no resemblance to pork chops.
Under the process, researchers first isolate muscle stem cells, which have the ability to grow and multiply into muscle cells. Then they stimulate the cells to develop, give them nutrients and exercise them with electric current to build bulk
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: biotechnology; feedthebillions; food; foodtechnology; frankenfoods; youneedmeat
The carniculture of H. Beam Piper novels comes closer. Just think, when this gets perfected you can grow N.Y. Strips, or goose liver for pate, in your own home!
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:06:05 PM PDT
by
Pilsner
To: Pilsner
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:08:33 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: Pilsner
WHat are they the Tleilaxu?
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:11:17 PM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
To: Pilsner
Since it doesn't come from a pig, is it kosher? Can we introduce our Jewish friends to the wonder that is bacon?
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:11:17 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
To: Pilsner
Yeech!!!
Then again, it’s not like most slaughter houses are pretty places. ;->
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:11:25 PM PDT
by
Wiseghy
("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
To: Pilsner
yay. Vat beef.
I’m so overjoyed.
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:12:28 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Pilsner
Yucky! That sounds absolutely horrible. No thank you! Not for me. I want the meat I eat to have started with hooves on the ground.
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:20:02 PM PDT
by
NRA2BFree
("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
To: Pilsner
I thought that we already had lab grown pork.
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:20:14 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("Most of us live... ...two weeks from cannibalism." -- old quote from DU)
To: Pilsner
Dutch try to grow enviro-friendly meat in labI don't think real-life meat is environmentally un-friendly.
To: KarlInOhio
Much more interested in presenting it to the Muslims, who are even MORE abhorrent of pork than religious Jewish people.
The equivalent of “Kosher” for Jewish people is “Halal” for Muslims.
And people thought the Muslims knew nothing of the Book of Leviticus, from the Old Testament.
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:26:22 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Choose carefully the hill you would die upon. For if you win, the view is magnificent.)
To: Pilsner
Soylent Green comes to mind.
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:27:30 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat lead.)
To: Spktyr; LucyT
Going to make a lot of cows mad, for sure. Huh, we already have mad cows. This is all getting so confusing.
I must have been born blonde. lol
To: Pilsner
The carniculture of H. Beam Piper novels comes closer. Just think, when this gets perfected you can grow N.Y. Strips, or goose liver for pate, in your own home! Or Heinlein's idea for human flesh grown from muscle cells.
To: Pilsner
“We no longer enslave animals for food.”
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posted on
06/01/2007 3:45:56 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("By the simple exercise of our will, we can exert a power for good practically unbounded, etc, etc.")
To: Pilsner
The Muslim’s salvation, pork without the squeal.
Mmmmmm. BBQ’d Semi-pork “Spork” tm. process food, with peanut butter stuffed “riblets”.
No pork was killed making our product, all “Spork” is porcine free and grown in halal factories.
You to can be a Spork Weasel!
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posted on
06/01/2007 4:40:41 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Pilsner
This has been around for years. They serve it in every middle school cafeteria.
To: Pilsner
I’ll take some ribeye and filet seeds, grow my own!!
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posted on
06/01/2007 5:10:05 PM PDT
by
theymakemesick
(Under sharia law, bacon will be illegal in Americistan, reason enough to keep islam out of America)
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