I'm waiting for their "Bronto-burgers."
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Posted on 03/30/2023 6:50:41 AM PDT by Twotone
Truth, as the saying goes, is often stranger than fiction. The very notion of resurrecting the long-extinct woolly mammoth was the stuff of fantasy not that long ago, but scientists are already working on ways to achieve something close to that, using DNA from soft-tissue in frozen mammoth remains and meshing it with that of a modern-day elephant.
But while such “de-extinction” projects may or may not ultimately succeed, one company is already laying claim to having produced the first meat product made from mammoth DNA.
Vow, an Australian cultivated food company that creates meat in a laboratory setting from animal cells, says that it has used advanced molecular engineering to resurrect the woolly mammoth in meatball form, by combining original mammoth DNA with fragments of an African elephant’s DNA.
James Ryall, Vow’s chief science officer, said that the company first identified the mammoth myoglobin, a protein that is key to giving meat its color and taste, and then used publicly available data to identify the DNA sequence in mammoths.
“We filled in any gaps in the DNA sequence of this mammoth myoglobin gene by using the genome of the African elephant, the mammoth’s closest living relative [Editor’s note: It’s actually the Asian elephant that is the mammoth’s closest living relative],” Ryall said in a video announcing the mammoth meatball. “We inserted the mammoth myoglobin gene into our cells using a very low-current and high-voltage charge. Then we continued to grow and multiply these cells just as would occur in a mammoth thousands of years ago. And the amazing thing about this is that not a single animal needed to die to produce the mammoth meatball.”
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“Life finds a way”
Woolly Mammoth Giant Meatball Made by Scientists and it Was ‘Ridiculously Easy’
03/28/2023 1:23:47 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 27 replies
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Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm
03/28/2023 12:51:23 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 51 replies
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It’s a wooly mammoth tumor.
I'm waiting for their "Bronto-burgers."
Regards,
I’d try a mammoth burger on the Barbie.
Creating a mammoth meatball is easy. Just use four to five times the meat you would use in a standard meatball.
It would make a good science fiction movie - where everyone who eats it gets a form of wooly-mammoth mad cow disease.
But its highly virulent and adaptive, because human immune systems haven’t seen it in 15,000 years.
Add in a corrupt and arrogant federal government official, some grasping crony-capitalists and an unknown hero biologist from fly-over country trying to save America - and you’d have a great story.
NATIONAL MEATBALL DAY – March 9
Let’s not be L7!
Some of the people reading this post have ancestors who ate REAL mammoth meatballs 10,000 years ago!
Elephants, don’t chew the cud and don’t have a split hoof. Sea creatures that don’t have fins or scales...
Not clean.
Say what you want about Leviticus 11:7... there’s a reason for it.
Worms, trichinosis, biological filters, scavengers. In cultures that live close to nature food precautions like boiling water and eating flesh that is reasonably safe is probably a good practice.
Complex modern societies might argue the point, and I get that. But, there is a reason for it. Dogmatic rejection or misinterpretation is not an acceptable workaround either.
Did any of those fools eat it?
After they trademark the name a bunch of burger joints are gonna have to change their menus.
A wholly Mammoth meatball with Pasta, no way.
Sure beats those burgers made out of lawn clippings.
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