Posted on 06/21/2011 2:26:22 AM PDT by markomalley
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, I’d 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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