Posted on 08/31/2011 5:18:57 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
It will cost £220,000 to produce and will probably have the slippery texture of squid or scallops.
But scientists are salivating over the prospect of the world’s first test-tube burger, which could be less than a year away.
Sausages and other processed meat products could swiftly follow, although pork chops and sirloin steaks will be much more problematic.
Produced in huge vats from muscle cells, the ‘meat without slaughter’ would be kinder to the environment than the real thing, reduce animal suffering and help feed the world’s burgeoning population.
Despite its huge initial cost, industrial-scale production could see the price plummet to equal, or less than that of real meat.
It remains to be seen, however, whether it will find favour with a public that likes to think of its chops, steaks and sausages as having their roots in nature, rather than in test-tubes.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Belly bomber. I used to date a woman who liked White Castle hamburgers. That alone should have told me she and I were incompatible.
OTOH, I'd beware of Waffle House aficionados. You have to dress up (like you're going to WalMart and such) to go in there.
This isn’t new. Taco Bell has been doing this for years. Or so it seems.
The dollar menu just got a tad pricier. Burger fans will be gobsmacked by the sticker shock.
Unnnngh...
...like chicory replaced coffee, and Tang replace orange juice...and greenbacks replaced money.
Ya’ll Brits can have them fake cows, so you don’t have to worry ‘bout the mad ones.
I want mine to have some hoof time and a bunch’a grass ‘n grain run through ‘em.
Nice try AgR but I am calling the mortgage on your range land...
This “synthetic beef” reminded me of this ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2771778/posts
Coincidence?!?!?!?!?! ;-)
Amen Grunthor, not in mine either.
Despite its high initial price .... Sounds like the electric break through a couple of months ago where they could produce a KW for about $2,000, but the price should go down later ...
So where do the muscle cells come from?
Nice try, TB, but, thankfully, we were able to pay cash when we bought it.
Bought 180 bare acres at $280/acre. Sold the free & clear Oregon home for $300,000 (paid $26,000 for 8 acres; bought a junk moble at a yard sale to live in while building, for $2,500 more, including the moving of it to the land. Spent a little less than $5,000 for a well, septic, and power hookup. That took most of the wife’s $50,000 inheritance. Bought matterials out of every pay check to hand build the house in my “free time” over the next 14 years. I still have the 1/3 sack cement mixer—working!— that I bought used, and used to mix the 15 cubic yards of concrete for the footings; the mortar for the foundation blocks & fireplace; and the other concrete to fill the blocks solid.) and bought 150 adjoining (different owner) acres with the house, barns, cabins, and garage for $120,000; then sold 20 acres of the 180 at $3,000/acre.
We really can call it our own. Oh, yeah; it also cost me a couple of knee surgeries, but I do still have both kidneys. Sweated blood for the place, but what else was there to do when one doesn’t drink, gamble, or dance their money away?
and I’m sweating moving out of the great room 7 days plus a couple for packing so we can have the hardwood floors refinished. I am actually thinking of buying a beater travel trailer for a kitchen. We are too old and rigid to think about and I am about to cancel it...
I miss my hardwood.
This house has the old verticle grain pine flooring. If I tried refinishing it even a room at a time, there wouldn’t be room to move around in the rest of the house.
We were able to refinish the kitchen floors when we first bought it, as I had to retrofit plumbing & electricity; and replace what were laughingly called ‘cabinets & countertops’.
Luckily, the irony meter is pegged.
Probably none — taxes are so 20th century. When the government wants money now, they just borrow it, buddy. And the best part is, you can just keep borrowing money to pay back the interest and principal on what you borrowed last year!
Somewhere, Adam Smith and many other dead european males are watching with horrified fascination what we are doing to ourselves ...
Ew, ew, ew.
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