Science Fiction Burger Today Anyone?

[Kevin WS]

Test-Tube Burger Served Up For First Time

Have a look at the above. If you Google the meat there are tons of news stories.

For some reason I am not too keen in the concept. Conjures up the idea of cloned identical food in a world where there is now no countryside left. Ugh!

Apparently 15-20 years will see it a reality......

[SCEtoAUX]

Mmmmm, Soylent Green.

[spaceagent-9]

''copy meat'' might be a catch phrase, ''neat meat'', leaf beef, cell meat, or just change the name meat to ''mete'' or myt or miit or beeph or niku is Japanese for meat,,, '' neekoo'' might work, its fun to say and catchy.

[wag]

The quote "close to meat" reminds me of meals in the high school cafeteria.
Wayne

[Kevin WS]

Yes - Soylent Green was at the back of my mind Doug!

[spaceagent-9]

near meat!

[Art Deco]

I think this is very promising news.

One reason I have cut back on meat is the nightmarish conditions for livestock raised in those "feedlot farms" that have become so common. They are just as much "meat factories" as any "test tube meat" facility could be. There is nothing natural about animals spending their lives indoors in tiny squalid cages, on a diet of manufactured feed and fast-growth drugs.

I think if most people knew a little more about, for example, the Chinese fish farms that produce so much American seafood, they'd be lining up for a cleaner, safer "test tube" variety - which ironically might be closer to "natural" meat.

Waiter, I'd like my vat-grown steak extra rare, please!

[spaceagent-9]

the next step is obviously to have 3-D printed mcnuggets, straight out of the petridish at mcdonalds, sealed in a spicy grain bag and cooked in its container on your way to sit down. the lid wont open until they are cool enough to eat.

[RichO]

KEVIN,

I just became a vegitarian!!

[papermodelfan]

A lot of plants are now propagated in tissue culture - easier than what the monks used to do by grafting twigs from one fruit tree onto another.

Might not be so bad? Brewing up some labo-burgers might mean that there is a whole lot MORE land left out there to do things with other than feed cattle. Once China starts eating beef at the rate we do, there wont be as much land left for anything else, unless something changes. I'll take a 50:50 blend of beef and buffalo, with just a smidge of yak. Yum.