Posted on 04/23/2008 8:35:46 PM PDT by zeestephen
Grow an apple from an apple stem cell instead of growing a whole tree.
Grow a grain of rice instead of flooding entire fields and breaking the backs of impoverished farmers.
Grow two-by-fours instead of cutting down forests.
No doubt start up costs would be very high.
And today it may be impossible to scale up production to meet demand and compete with old fashioned farm products.
But the long term benefits over land use, hard labor, weather issues, etc., is so huge, I can't imagine why we don't hear more about this kind of thing.
Organs for transplant?
New penises for those that were stolen?
okay, now that was pretty funny.
So how economical can this new meat be? Maybe McDonalds can grow the meat in the back.
However, if you can take meat and raise it in a lab culture, you can skip the 10 lb. of grain to make 1 lb. of beef and go straight to 1 lb. nutrient to 1 lb. artificially grown beef.
Food safety, too, could become much better. No artificial hormones for cows - just all enclosed lab production. Like the former Gaza greenhouses raising perfect produce.
Tea. Earl Gray...Hot!
“Looks like meat! Tastes like meat, but it isn’t meat at all! Doubleplusgood, eh!”
Is that from the matrix?
you can’t get good riblets in space
Mmmm
Free range chicken $2.50 lb
chicken farm chicken $1.25 lb
lab chicken 75 cents lb
Who wouldn’t go for the cheap stuff!
(examples only, I have no idea what chicken costs thereby eliminating me as a viable presidential candidate)
Yes.
the organs removed for spare parts for the bio-mechanical drones before the rest of the body is added to the protein bank.
Quiet, and drink your Tang. 8-)
custom size?
I’ve been trying to grow a Corvette in the back yard. So far all I have is a tire.
Ya need to talk to the patent holders. That would be the Federal Reserve. They can clone dollar bills licketysplit. They can bring the price per unit way down too!
It’d get rid of food wastage in raising beef, chicken, etc. and the excess food would be available to feed people, driving down the price of both grains and meat. It’d allow the “growers” to completely control meat quality and they could add whatever supplements were deemed desirable. It would also address every single concern animal rights types have over food animals. Absolutely great idea that will undoubtedly become a reality in a decade or two.
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