Posted on 06/21/2011 2:26:22 AM PDT by markomalley
Meat grown artificially in a laboratory could offer a viable solution for environmentalists who want to cut their carbon footprint but cannot face going vegetarian, research suggests.
An Oxford-led study found that cultured tissue could reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from food production by as much as 96 per cent.
The process would use up to 45 per cent less energy than conventional meat, only one per cent of the land and a tiny fraction of the water required, according to a study to be published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Meat production is responsible for about 18 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions more than the airline industry and the worlds cars combined and takes up almost a third of land outside of icebound areas.
With hundreds of millions more people in countries such as China now able to afford meat as part of their daily diet, the worlds resources have come under increasing pressure.
Meat production is being blamed for much of the deforestation in areas such as the Amazon rainforest, water shortages and increasing competition for land.
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This would be a good test to see how many vegetarians actually care about “animal rights” vs how many are actually self-righteous, self-flagellating narcissists.
And when they did eat meat, they picked out a tube of vatted meat product, made from cultivated tissue that never required the butchering of an animal, or even the participation of any sort of animal outside of the purely mythical. The best selling vetted meat product on the market was something called Kingston's Bison Boar, some godforsaken agglomeration of bovine and pig genes stretched across a cartilaginous scaffolding and immersed in a nutrient broth until it grew into something that was meatlike without being meaty, paler than veal, lean as a lizard and so animal friendly that even strict vegetarians didn't mind tucking in a Bison Boar Burger or two when the mood struck them. Kingston's corporate mascot was a pig with a bison shag and horns, frying up burgers on a hibachi, winking at the customer in third-quarter profile, licking its lips in anticipation of devouring its own fictional flesh. The thing was damned creepy.(John Scalzi - "The Android's Dream"
Somehow I have a real problem thinking about inviting friends over to B-B-Q some “meat product” rather than a juicy rib-eye steak.
I can just see it now: The menu will be a meat product with vegetable matter for the main course. For desert we will have flavored tofu covered in a chocolate product.
THAT SIMPLY AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN FOLKS...at least not at my house.
*Ding!* *Ding!* *Ding!*
We have a winner.
You, sir, understand exactly how our modern crony capitalism works.
I’m not adverse to such a product, done right. But what you posit is exactly the sort of thing that kills free markets.
” Another Frankenburger, dear? “
Mmmmmmm...Bacon...Bacon... whose got the bacon
***If it looks good, smells good, tastes good, is clean and healthy to eat, and is priced right, Id buy it.****
Artificial steak is not a new idea. 40 years it was made from large fungi grown on....get this...sawdust soaked in...Beef Blood!. It tasted just like steak but the texture was mushroom. So kill a cow to get artificial steak.
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