Tastes Like Chicken - Growing Meat Without Growing Animals

Slate.com ^ | 22 April 2008 | William Saletan

[zeestephen]

"The idea is simple: Instead of growing a chicken embryo into a bird and cutting meat from it, you skip the bird part and grow the meat directly from the embryo."

[Dominnae]

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

A bit creepy...it might work for vegetables...but the exercise required for development of lean meats doesn't sound feasible, UNLESS they have little treadmills for the frankenfowl...




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Thanks TSoA for the ping.

Quix, sort of related to this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2005175/posts?page=135#135

...but of interest regardless. :’)

[353FMG]

Future democrat?

[Quix]

That really was where I first read of such many years ago—when reading an abductee’s narrative.

[MaryFromMichigan]

I’ve been trying to grow a Corvette in the back yard. So far all I have is a tire.

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A Green Thumb
That is the plot exactly!
Worth a listen!

[mowowie]

Pretty cool thread so far...

[null and void]

but the exercise required for development of lean meats doesn't sound feasible

I can think of two ways to do it.

[Rebelbase]

“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!”

Tyson Farms.

[Tarantulas]

We had a KFC bucket in the house last week, and it said "Kentucky Fried Chicken" on the side, not just KFC. You can see one on this page.

I do recall reading a science fiction story that included this very topic, but couldn't recall where. This page has some information about some related scifi stories. But this page describes the story I read - I have the book on my bookshelf.

"As a literary genre, science fiction often attempts to envision realities before (or as) they come into being. While most of these futuristic visions remain in the realm of pure fantasy, some prove eerily prescient. The protagonist of Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's 1952 sci-fi novel The Space Merchants works in a factory that manufactures Chicken Little – a meat cell culture that feeds the world."

[potlatch]

[animal stem cells that would be placed in a medium to grow and reproduce.]

I went to the article but not all the links there. What would be the ingredients of the ‘medium’ that grows this food?

We know what animals eat and pretty much what we are ingesting but wonder just WHAT we would end up eating from these clones.

[potlatch]

Sorry Spirit, you pinged me here, lol.
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[MrB]

we could grow them on the backs of mice

[Stimpson_J_Cat]

Do you cut em up just like regular chickens?

[punster]

Perhaps, someone would find a reason to beef about it. Others might be too chicken-hearted to try it. Maybe someone will find a way to use it for a new desert: an I scream clone.

[Rudder]

Do that with Chinchillas and all of womanhood will beat a path to your door.