Luminous

iTrader: (3)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4148164.stm

Seems it is not going to be long before our meant can be grown in a lab rather than on an animal.

Has lots of potential benefits, I'm just not sure I would want to eat it.

Dream Weaver

Its plain wrong, simple as

GC8

You may well be right; but theres something deeply disturbing about a broiler house too. If the chickens that we eat grew up in a farmyard then, at their age, the 4lb'ers we regularly enjoy would still be yellow and cheeping!

Simon

Dream Weaver

I agree Simon, been trying to buy more free range meat now since watching Dispatches, though it is much more expensive.

ajm

Without knowing more about the actual process the worry, in my opinion, about meat formed in this manner is that it would almost be *too* pure. When we eat meat we are eating more than just pure muscle tissue,we are also eating minerals, vitamins and fats contained not just in the muscle but the connective tissues, blood, skin etc.

Chip

Disgusting, plain and simple.

Chip

carl

Some interesting questions raised though:
1) Will it be acceptable to vegetarians?
2) Will it be halal/kosher (moses?)

Chip

1) Who cares.
2) Who cares

Chip

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

You, when the supermarkets and resturants start to use it without you knowing

Chip

Dont buy meat in supermarkets anyway. As for restaraunts as long as they stick to serving what they say they are serving and you know and trust them then I dont see a problem.

Chip.

carl

Try thinking outside your own little box for a while. Normal meat production consumes vast amounts of energy (think how many kJ of arable crops you have to put into a cow to get a bit of steak with a couple of kJ of energy into it). I think that long-term this could have applications in third-world countries. Surely it's got to be better than what goes into a chicken nugget presently (lips, bums, brain tissue, etc.)

Clett

I grow cells every day and this would be eaasy-peasy. Could theoretically produce a lot of protein from a lot less energy than a big flappy animal too.

Leslie

I certainly don't fancy it anyway. Has this stuff got life as such while it is growing?

I agree about the chicken mass production too, I have seen it happening and it is truly cruelty born of greed.

Les

Chip

Why do we hve to mess about with nature all the time.

Chip