Mad Science? Growing Meat Without Animals

LiveScience ^ | 11/19/2001 | Charles Q. Choi

[Trig75]

Soylent Green comes to mind.

[pgkdan]

Sounds repulsive to me.

[BigGaloot]

PETA strangely is down with lab meat and even has a million dollar award for the first quack scientist who can make a decent copy of a burger.

[pgkdan]

No kidding...who wants a rabbit penis? How’s that going to help people?

[IronKros]

PETA should be pleased.
Now you can eat your cow and have it too.

[edge10]

“It tastes like despair.”

[calico_thompson]

IT’S PEOPLE!

“In principle, we could harvest the meat progenitor cells from fresh human cadavers and grow meat from them,” Post said. “Once taken out of its disease and animalistic, cannibalistic context - you are not killing fellow citizens for it, they are already dead - there is no reason why not.”

[calico_thompson]

Skeletal muscle tissue - heck no - we want brains.

[WOBBLY BOB]

http://www.moviesoundclips.net/movies1/wildhogs/man.wav

[556x45]

“possible to grow chicken breasts and wings more efficiently without having to keep an actual chicken. And in fact scientists have since figured out how to grow tiny nuggets of lab meat....”

Lab meat? LOL, gives a new meaning to ‘nuggets’ doesn’t it. Ummm....no thanx Ill pass on the lab meat stuff.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Penis meat??? These two sentences do not belong in the same paragraph. ***

Why not?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nothing new. They were growing immitation meat made out of mushrooms grown on cattle blood saturated sawdust thirty years ago.

Tasted just like steak but texture wise it felt like eating mushrooms.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Anyone remember a si fi short story from the 1960s about a South American scientist, in an anti war/anti meat world, who was raising tomatoes that tasted like beef? He called them “Greenbeffos”.

[UCANSEE2]

Growing meat without animals.

Next thing you know, they’ll be able to make a baby with a man or a woman.

[UCANSEE2]

Oops.

Next thing you know, they’ll be able to make a baby WITHOUT a man or a woman.

[ApplegateRanch]

If it doesn’t have a face, I don’t want to eat it.

Waddayamean you don't like yo cultured yeastchop?!? Yo momma slaved over a reconstituter fo 40 seconds to put dat Not-A-Meat on yo plate! Now shaddap an EAT IT!

[Slings and Arrows]

Barney Frank wants his lunch back.