Posted on 07/06/2005 10:48:04 AM PDT by canadianally
We ought to get the opinion of a Hindu.
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Yes, but it's not an animal.
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Did you see that they are using it in Boston Market commercials now? I did a double take when I heard it. They probably will cut the verse out about throwing the eye ball in a cup- just a wild guess. ;-)
If you don't eat your artificial meat, you can't have any artificial pudding!
H. Beam Piper called it "carniculture" in his books. I think this sounds cool. Depends on how good the product tastes...
At one point I asked him what they did and he explained that they were in the business of trying to manipulate genes to come up with new commercial products, like bacteria that would produce medicines or other compounds naturally.
I told him I had often wondered why no one had ever tried to splice the genes for chicken meat into a tomato plant, which will grow darn near anywhere, so that you could grow meat that wouldn't require killing even those dumb animals.
He gave me a very strange look.
I said "oh boy, I've said something really stupid, haven't I?"
He replied "no, that's what my doctorate proposes... exactly."
He told me it was probably 25 or 30 years away. I wonder if he had a hand in this at all.
Flavor would have to be furnished from additives since the flavor of meat is mostly in the fat content. A muscle culture would be very lean. They could process the stuff like bacon or pemmican, but just slicing off a thickness and frying it up for breakfast would get old.
Is this another Enzite ad?
In all seriousness, yes it does.
I pretty familiar with that part - I used to do formulations for meat processing. This stuff would have great potential for sausages and sliced meat, though. I bet they could even make steaks, if they could figure out how to control the marbling... artificial Kobe beef anybody?
Would the culture have marbling at all? It would have to have other tissues as well. Once it gets beyond a certain thickness it would have to have a vascular system. Would the culture just grow, or would it want to become a specific group of muscles? Lots of questions, we better get started in the lab.
Well, the way they were describing it, they had to cultivate it in layers. It might be possible to develop an irrigation system. that weaves between the layers tissue. Sortal like the holes in a White Castle burger...
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