Posted on 06/11/2019 9:14:46 AM PDT by C19fan
It starts with a burger.
In 2008 a Dutch professor named Mark Post presented the proof of concept for what he called cultured meat. Five years later, in a London TV studio, Mr. Post and his colleagues ate a burger they had grown from animal cells in a laboratory. Secretly funded by Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, the journey from petri dish to plate had cost $325,000 making theirs the most expensive meal in history. Fortunately, the results were promising: Hanni Rützler, a nutrition scientist, concluded that the patty was close to meat but not as juicy. The next question was whether this breakthrough could be made cheaper. Much cheaper.
The first cultured beef burgers are likely to enter the market next year, at approximately $50 each. But that wont last long. Within a decade they will probably be more affordable than even the cheapest barbecue staples of today all for a product that uses fewer resources, produces negligible greenhouse gases and, remarkably, requires no animals to die.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Or has taken too much drugs?
I have huge doubts, but no more factory farming would be a blessing.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
— Richard Brautigan (1967)
Communism is evil.
But cheaper food prices is, again ostensibly, a goal of the left to help the poor.
Does NYT not want us to know that Communism is only good for those at the top, or are they too stupid themselves to know?
My objection is moral, not economic.
I wondered when we find out Captain Picard has a brother who runs the family winery how he sells his real wine when people do not have money.
Personally I don't think it would work even then, it's simply against human nature. If it came to that point, people would compete over who had the biggest, fastest replicator or who could materialize the nicest house and clothes.
Anyone who espouses communism believes they will be “at the top”, or such an accomplice that those at the top will ensure they will never have to live like the masses.
There are always things that cannot be replicated. Star Trek is filled with them. For example, Captain Kirk’s high rise apartment overlooking SF Bay, an original edition of “Tale of Two Cities”, Romulan ale, a signed baseball, etc. One still needs a price and monetary system to determine how these items get distributed.
Paid for by the ....... rich? Who won’t be around after their money is taken, then back to being enslaved.
"A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free"
Throw in some maggots, crickets and inchworms too. For added flavor. Then eat the concoction, you f****** hypocrites! instead of eating caviar and fillet mignon, you filthy slobs! I’ll eat what I like.
Yes, elite get chemical burger.
Workers get chemical potato. (When available, according to five year plan.)
This ‘technology’ is essentially just cell culture - which has been around for a long, long, time. They are culturing myoblasts. It takes a whole lot of myoblasts to make a hamburger.. This requires lots of culture media, probably a variety of growth factors, and at the end of the day I would want a very, very extensive characterization of what’s in this before considering eating it. That said, it could work.
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