Posted on 01/31/2011 3:13:27 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – In a small laboratory on an upper floor of the basic science building at the Medical University of South Carolina, Vladimir Mironov, M.D., Ph.D., has been working for a decade to grow meat.
A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, 56, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering "cultured" meat.
It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way ... on the hoof.
Growth of "in-vitro" or cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands, Mironov told Reuters in an interview, but in the United States, it is science in search of funding and demand.
The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture, part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, won't fund it, the National Institutes of Health won't fund it, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration funded it only briefly, Mironov said.
"It's classic disruptive technology," Mironov said. "Bringing any new technology on the market, average, costs $1 billion. We don't even have $1 million."
Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering, or growing, of human organs.
"There's a yuck factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab. They don't like to associate technology with food," said Nicholas Genovese, 32, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology working under a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals three-year grant to run Dr. Mironov's meat-growing lab....
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I’ve never needed a lab to grow my meat.
They already have a device which can grow meat. It’s called a cow.
I’ll put my order in for a blonde, 36-24-36.
Tastes like chicken
Instead of using genetic engineering, why don’t we just solve the global food crisis the good old fashioned way: Capitalism. Also, I probably don’t want to know how much this program is costing me.
Uh, I think I’ll pass on this meat at the BBQ.
...lotz of $$$!
I don’t blame you. Who wants to try test tube steak?
This completely grossed me out.
Soylent Green bump...
‘shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat’
I so tire of this BS. Go visit North Dakota you idiots.
Not really. H. Beam Piper was talking about “carniculture vats” in his SF in the 50’s and 60’s.
The real question is “Can you convert ‘feed’ to meat more efficiently (and cheaply) than cows, pigs, chickens, etc.”
This instantly reminded me of the Harry Harrison book West of Eden. The Yilané grew meat in sacks that was described in the book as disgusting but edible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden
Great book.
I thought artificial meat was already being used at Taco Bell and college cafeterias.
a foxy babe HS teacher could do that.
What's the big deal...I already "grow" it on my property...saaay, maybe I could get a gubmint grant to perfect my technique...
“I?ve never needed a lab to grow my meat.”
Nope. Just a good looking woman..
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