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  • Scientists Create Lab-Grown Pork; Bacon Industry Unmoved

    12/01/2009 4:34:27 AM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 27 replies · 761+ views
    Sphere ^ | November 30, 2009 | Andrew Schneider
    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...