Posted on 07/30/2013 1:39:35 AM PDT by markomalley
It was Winston Churchill, of all people, who predicted the ultimate culinary revolution. Way back in 1932, he stated that: “Fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order eat the breast or the wing, by growing these parts separately in a suitable medium.”
It has taken a few decades longer than Churchill imagined, but his prediction might just be coming true – and not before time. Humans now kill about 1,600 birds and mammals every second for food, and that number will grow hugely as the global population – currently 7.1 billion – rises to more than nine billion by mid-century.
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But now something new and very interesting is in the air. Prof Mark Post, a doctor and scientist at the University of Maastricht, will next week unveil what he claims is the first truly convincing synthesised meat product – a hamburger created in the lab from cultured tissue. It will be brought to London on Monday, cooked – possibly – by a celebrity chef (Heston Blumenthal was once mooted), and then eaten by a mysterious special guest.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Some people do go a bit far.
We are talking flavor here. Old dried up breast meat is fine for some , but the flavor is in the wing.
A wing is skin and bone. Without sauce it has no flavor and no meat. I make my own sauce and prepare real boneless chicken breasts that I cut in strips the way wings are prepared. It is not dried up at all. Anyone who’s had my saucey chicken breasts never eats a wing again. I haven’t eaten a chicken wing since I was growing up poor and was happy to get any piece of a fried chicken. I do the same routine with dove and quail breasts. Gnaw on a bone if you like.
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I like.
That is your perogative. I choose to abstain from chicken bone chewing. Some people eat rice beetles. I abstain from that as well.
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