Posted on 04/10/2015 7:44:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
3-D printed marbling with lab grown tissue...
This idea may not work for mass marketing but might be promising in space exploration where live cows won’t work. Eating steak on Mars...
I don't see it happening. In order to grow cells, you have to replicate the conditions that exist in the cell's natural environment--the salts, hormones, amino acids, sugars, etc. And you have to maintain an absolutely sterile environment, which would be quite a challenge in the weightless environment of space. Plus, growing cells requires supplies, lots and lots of them. I doubt that I've grown even close to a pound of cells in my career, but I've probably generated hundreds of pounds of trash doing so, not to mention the gallons and gallons of discarded liquid.
For long-term space flight, you'd probably want to set up a small ecological system, not try to establish some sort of lab for growing cells.
Thanks.
“Nevermind,” in my best Emily Litella voice. :)
Hmmmmm....Soylent Big Mac.....
‘$80 per kilogram of meat, meaning that one burger patty would cost around $11.40’
Why do they call it ‘cheap’? I guess it is based on quality, not the price.
Bravo!
“The tissue would be placed on a petri dish of fetal calf serum which allows it to multiply. A small tissue, according to Post, “can produce 10,000 kilos of meat.” “
Man, there is a really, *really* bad horror movie in this just waiting to be made.
Gee, $35/lb for some soylent green pap when we can get real beef for under $12/lb - what’s up wit dat pricing dese days?
Just took a charcoal grilled leg of lamb off the rotisserie. Those burgers sound too close to soylent for me.
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