Scientist grows meat in vat.

Ananova ^ | September 30, 2002 | mg39

[mg39]

Scientist says he can create meat without killing animals

A Dutch scientist says he can create artificial meat in laboratories without killing animals.

Wiete Westerhof, from the University of Amsterdam, plans to use the same method used to produce artificial skin.

He believes he will be able to grow lumps of meat weighing up to 50kg in large containers.

The meat would be produced using collagen particles and muscle cells taken from "animal donors" who would not be harmed.

The muscle cells would then grow and multiply on the collagen.

Mr Westerhof anticipates containers able to hold more than 5,000 litres, in which the meat would grow in a nutrient solution.

This liquid would contain 62 ingredients, including 20 amino acids, 12 vitamins and various enzymes.

"The product will have the structure and taste of lean meat, but animals won't have to suffer for it," said Mr Westerhof.

The dermatologist says pork, beef and chicken meat could all be produced artificially as well as kangaroo, whale and shellfish.

Mr Westerhof and two businessmen own the worldwide patent to the method and are looking for investors.

[Dakmar]

Let me guess...Chicago is the center of this 'research'?

[Maigrey]

Anyone for Soylent Pink? Soylent Brown?

-Maigrey-

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

The DNC is already looking into engineering these lumps of vat meat with the ability to vote....

ROFL! But, wait a minute, haven't they already been doing that? I think I saw a can of SPAM at the election booth at the primary election....Hmmmmmm....

[dpwiener]

And how about this: you could give up a few of your own cells and eventually eat yourself!

When you think about it, it has a certain twisted elegance about it. And it would obviously be no more morally objectionable than swallowing your own saliva.

[TransOxus]

Where is the collagen coming from to grow artifical meat? From the glue factory!?! Why don't they genetically engineer a meat-producing tree or animals sloughing off readymade meat products? Looks like the science fiction and comic strips of yesteryears are coming true. Must go back and read Edgar Rice Burrough's Martian Series books like "The Mastermind of Mars".

Wonder if this meat engineering will give ideas to the underendowed???!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Slickster will be front in line!!!!!!

[jlogajan]

Would you eat it?

[The FRugitive]

Unfortunately JediGirl has been banned for criticizing Bush.

[maxwell]

SPAM

GMTA.

[jlogajan]

Unfortunately JediGirl has been banned for criticizing Bush.

Oh, that sucks. This place is really starting to go down hill.

[wildbill]

Yummy! I'll have mine medium rare.

And the enviros are worried about vegetable bioengineering.

[aught-6]

Talk about "Frankenfood".

[Vince Ferrer]

create meat without killing animals

Even money the PETA freaks will still shriek.

PETA: "Yes, that's nice, but they're not free range vats."

[cartoonistx]

The Soylent Red is really the best but all I seem to be able to get these days is the Green. Tastes like chicken.

[martin_fierro]

So THAT explains why Gyro meat is shaped that way! <|:)~

[TN4Liberty]

I wonder if this could have implications for space travel. Much easier than developing astro-cattle.

[montag813]

This is revolting. The thing that gives meat its wonderful character is its source in the body of an animal. The best way to enjoy an animal is fresh, killed quickly, prepared with respect, and enjoyment to the fullest, with no waste. Most meat eaters are respectful to animals.

Just because the homsexual freaks at PETA were treated like pieces of meat by their demented fathers doesnt mean they have to accuse us of being similarly depraved.

[Marie]

You're right. It couldn't get any cleaner. No more worries about Mad Cow, E.Coli, antibiotic resistant bacteria being bred in animals and species-jumping viruses. It sounds gross, but I can see the advantages. I've never been crazy about slaughter houses.

[mg39]

Montag813,

That was one of the most ignorant posts I've ever read.

[Vic3O3]

Soylent Green came to my mind too.

[Kevin Curry]

What bothered you the most--his assertion that meat from actual animals is superior to meat cultured on a petrie dish, or his contention that the animal rights movement is disportionately filled with men whose homosexual yearnings likely trace to dysfunctional relationships with their fathers?