Where's the beef?

[Hakan]

http://tinyurl.com/ghhxz

If they succeed, cultured or in vitro meat could be coming to a supermarket near you. Consumers could buy hamburger patties and chicken nuggets made from meat cultivated from muscle cells in a giant incubator rather than cut from a farm animal.

Would you eat it?

On a broader question how often do you eat meat a week? Would you switch to test tube meat if you knew if was more environmentally sustainable and ethical to animals? Or is prospect of test tube meat more ethically problematic than the supposed mistreatment of animals?

[Wookie]

If it tastes good I'll eat it..

Maybe they can make it more nutritious too

[Buff]

I can't believe it's not butter/margarine.

[Table 5]

what the fudge?

One group, which he would not name, did offer him money, but they wanted him to grow meat from human cells, so they could grow pieces of themselves to eat.

[Cube Inmate]

I don't know what the big deal is...I think McDonald's has been growing their "meat" in some kind of incubator for years.

Me...I eat meat alllll the time. No ethical problems at all. Similarly, I'd have no ethical problem if a lion decided to eat me...not that I wouldn't fight back. It's the law of the jungle people.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Hmmm, I guess I'd have no problem eating it. But I doubt it would be as tasty. Unless they figure out some way to make it like a real piece of meat ,with fat marbling and all of that good stuff, I doubt it would be as tasty.

But if it tasted good I'd eat it.

[FireFly]

Margaret Atwood discusses this very thing in her book Oryx and Crake. Now, I'm not usually a fan of Atwood's, but that book was amazing, and I highly recommend it. Now that her 'out-there' ideas are becoming reality, that book gets a lot more scary. A definate read if topics like this interest you.

[Hakan]

Great book Firefly.

[RougeUnderoos]

Home chefs could make meat in a countertop device the size of a coffee maker. Before bed, throw starter cells and a package of growth medium into the meat maker and wake up to harvest fresh sausage for breakfast.

Sounds kinda Star Trekkie. Maybe a steak is one thing, but snausages growing while you sleep? Blech.

Anyhow, one thing I wish someone would finally invent is a way to make your own beer at home. Now that would be something!

[Calgary Flames]

Pffft, they've been doing this for years! Anyone hear of McNuggets? mmmm

[toonmaster]

i know they have been doing genetically modified meat for a while but it has not been licensed for human consumption anywhere

but this is just plain weird and creepy

Before bed, throw starter cells and a package of growth medium into the meat maker and wake up to harvest fresh sausage for breakfast.

it would take me quite a while to convert

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Anyhow, one thing I wish someone would finally invent is a way to make your own beer at home. Now that would be something!

Dear god I hope you're joking! Not about how great that would be, but about the fact that this isn't already incredibly possible.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Anyhow, one thing I wish someone would finally invent is a way to make your own beer at home. Now that would be something!

But Rouge, people have been making beer at home for a long time now. You can get beer making kits all over the place.

[Jake]

If they don't put ridiculous amounts of growth hormone into the meat I'll actually eat it over the normal stuff. Sadly I doubt that will happen...

[Radically Red]

If we can all make our own meat what happens to all the cows?? look out the Cows will take over... lol

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

No RR we'll just kill them all....wait....that's horrible, we can't just go around slaughtering cows because we don't want to eat them.....but we can do it because we do want to eat them....ah crap, I think if this petri dish meat becomes a reality, there is a good chance the paradox it creates will destroy the universe. Oh well, I've had a good run.

[Eagle Eye]

I can't wait for the day when my wife tells me she is going downstairs to harvest some sausage for breakfast, so appetizing (Fotze stay away from this one)

[troutman]

Is this the "BIF" Norm was raving about on Cheers, available only at the Hungry Heifer?

[Five-hole]

That is thoroughly disgusting.

I love my meat. All kinds: beef, chicken, lamb, fish, you name it. But if it's not coming from somewhere natural I don't want any part of it.

I'm already paranoid of the mountains of fake crap we ingest daily.

[FlamesAddiction]

I'd eat it, if it was safe.

Is it really more gross than eating animals from feed lots that eat and live in their own filth? Or eating sausages made from slaughterhouse leavings?

I don't think so.