I'll join you, basil!
Posted on 07/06/2005 10:48:04 AM PDT by canadianally
Summary - (Jul 6, 2005) Scientists at the University of Maryland think that large quantities of artificial meat could be produced to supply the world with animal-free meat products, like chickenless nuggets. This is based on experiments for NASA, that created small amounts of muscle fibre cultured from single cells. According to the researchers, larger quantities could be grown in thin sheets and then stacked up to create thickness. Of course, they need to figure out a way to exercise it to make it taste like regular meat
I love MREs. I keep a carton in the pantry when there's nothing else around for snacks. They beat the hell out of TV dinners.
LOL! You win, hands down 8-)
...lol...
Remember Norm on "Cheers" used to like eating the "bef" at the Hungry Heifer.
SD
Robert Heinlein saw it coming in the 1950's.
From Coventry:
"It did not occur to him that these timid little animals, streaking for cover at his coming, could replentish his larder -- he was simply amused and warmed by their presence.
"When he did happen to consider that they might be used as food, the thought was at first repugnant to him -- the custom of killing for 'sport' had ceased to become customary long before his time; and inasmuch as the development of cheap synthetic proteins in the latter half of the preceding century had spelled the economic ruin of the business of breeding animals for slaughter, it is doubtful if he had ever tasted animal tissue in his life."
lol, that's the first thing that popped in my mind too.
that was the reference i was going after... i guess i spelled bef wrong but got the loobster right!!!
MY EYES!!! AAAGH!!
I suppose if I had to eat them for every meal I could learn to hate them too. But then, I've never been a finicky eater.
No thanks. This sounds like another European Union fall back position. (There are so many)
Give me grain-fed, fresh-off-the-hoof steaks, prime rib and ground chuck any day. I will consume it all with great gusto while laughing at the grass-eatin', dog-killin' Peta folks.
Now where is the sensible research, like triglyceride and LDL strainers--unless the alternative medicine folks are right and cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease?
Either way, call me at Whataburger.
Artificial meat is to eating as masturbation is to sex. So says the unapologetic carnivore.
I'll join you, basil!
Why not just manipulate genetics to create the Shmoo?
http://www.lil-abner.com/shmoo.html
"...the lovable creature laid eggs, gave milk and died of sheer esctasy when looked at with hunger. The Shmoo loved to be eaten and tasted like any food desired. Anything that delighted people delighted a Shmoo. Fry a Shmoo and it came out chicken. Broil it and it came out steak."
Confinement loaf?
The British already screwed Africa up when they stopped them from killing and eating each other.
Well, stopped most of them anyway.
I read a science fiction story in the mid 1960's that desribed a voyage in a spacecraft where the food included meat grown via tissue culture. At the time I mentioned this to a scientist relative who confirmed that it was already known that this processs was possible.
It's still MEAT even grown from a single cell.
I don't see how it can be. It is muscle tissue. I think the spin is that they don't have to kill an animal to get it. Which is an idealogical concept not having to do with the definition of "meat".
"This is based on experiments for NASA, that created small amounts of muscle fibre cultured from single cells. "
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