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Scientists Create Lab-Grown Pork; Bacon Industry Unmoved
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| November 30, 2009
| Andrew Schneider
Posted on 12/01/2009 4:34:27 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Scientists in the Netherlands have created pig in a test tube. Debate has already started on whether it will save the world, or just throw vegetarians into a quandary.
In the meantime, the researchers may be in line for a celebratory feast: They could be the new front-runners for a million-dollar prize offered by a major animal rights group.
The research team, funded by a major sausage maker and the Dutch government, used cells from a live pig to grow pork muscle tissue in a Petri dish. After extracting cells called myoblasts from the muscle of a live pig, the scientists then incubated the myoblasts in a nutrient solution, which allowed the cells to multiply and create muscle.
The implications of this breakthrough in "in vitro meat," as it's sometimes called, are potentially enormous.
Physiology professor Mark Post of Eindhoven University, who led the research team, believes it could make it possible to end world hunger. "You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals," he told the media in the United Kingdom.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bacon; fatfree; leanandmean; peta; pork; sausage
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Given that it didn’t come from a live pig, does this mean it’s Islam-approved?
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posted on
12/01/2009 4:36:15 AM PST
by
RangerM
(A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
MMMmmmm... Bacon
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posted on
12/01/2009 4:36:53 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Mmmm, mmmmm, can’t wait to fry up some good ol’ myoblasts.
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posted on
12/01/2009 4:38:24 AM PST
by
pappyone
(New to Freep, still working a tag line.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Unless they produce some test-tube lard that pork isn’t going to taste very good.
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posted on
12/01/2009 4:38:34 AM PST
by
rogue yam
To: rogue yam; blam
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"Unless they produce some test-tube lard that pork isn't going to taste very good." <<<<
100% Lean Pork? Who'd ever believe it?
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Uh, sorry, Scientists, but Congresss beat you to it...
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posted on
12/01/2009 5:04:20 AM PST
by
LRS
(Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
To: ET(end tyranny)
To: LRS
Uh, sorry, Scientists, but Congresss beat you to it..Post
of
the
day.
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posted on
12/01/2009 5:08:24 AM PST
by
Pistolshot
(Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Myoblasts and chicken embryos—my favorite breakfast!
To: rightwingintelligentsia
GOOD NEWS!...........
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posted on
12/01/2009 5:16:51 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
To: WKUHilltopper
Myoblasts and chicken embryos—my favorite breakfast! And don't forget the ground up chicken feed!...................or if you're a yankee, fried up plant tubers!...........
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posted on
12/01/2009 5:19:50 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Oh, this isn’t any kind of “new” breakthrough...
Congress has created more pork, wayyyyy before these guys...
Nothing to see here people...Move along...Move along...
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Certainly more worthy of a Nobel than 0bama, algore or Jimmuh.
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posted on
12/01/2009 5:28:47 AM PST
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Pork Eating CRUSADER - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: Red Badger
Oh yeah! Chicken feed drowned in cow squeezin’s!
To: rightwingintelligentsia
And even the scientists had to admit to reporters that they don't know if their creation is flavorsome, because laboratory regulations forbid them from tasting anything they create.
That can't be true, half of the comic book superheroes and 80% of the super villains because of experimental stuff being consumed in the lab.
To: WKUHilltopper
I prefer my chicken feed drowned in hot melted fat from a dead pig!.................
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posted on
12/01/2009 6:14:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
To: Red Badger
"And don't forget the ground up chicken feed!...................or if you're a yankee, fried up plant tubers!..........." Heh, Mom was from Louisiana, Dad was from upstate NY. I like'em both. To paraphrase from your home page you fit the folloiwng..."Oriental by genetics, Southern by the grace of God."
To: Red Badger
"I prefer my chicken feed drowned in hot melted fat from a dead pig!................." Hey, I can spare the fat, but why do I have to be dead to do so?? Wouldn't liposuction be enough??
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