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The future: Meat Mountains

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by dr dij

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An interesting article and a strange source: Peta is the one offering the X-prize for test-tube produced meat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/opinion/23wed4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Would you eat knowingly eat this? Would you if it WASN'T genetically modified animal but simply raised in vats? Could this be the answer to the world's appetite for eating animals? Soylent-Green?

I'm mostly a veg so I'll stick with BBQ soy-ribs (actually pretty good, flavor in meat comes mostly from the bbq sauce, same with soy ribs.

But one sci-fi story of an overpopulated earth had each apartment building with a vat containing a 'meat mountain' that they carved off a hunk of nitely.

And unlike Torchwood episode, it was simply a hunk of non-sentient reproducing cells, not a gigantic alien salamander in a warehouse in England being snuck into school lunch programs.

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by dr dij

what that means but no one is yet growing meat in a test tube or vat for resale so I'd have to say no.

Do I hear a whoosh jets flying over my head?

(edit: plane landing)
Ok, I'm all for those type of meat mountains too, in a hands-on kind of way :)

by faradhi

is to pour BBQ sauce on them.

Aside from that I don't know if I would eat "test tube meat". It really depends I guess.

It does not sound very appetizing.

by boxfiddler

No, I wouldn't knowingly eat test tube meat. But then, I don't knowingly eat genetically modified foods as it is.

I think we're messin' in stuff we don't know enough about to be messin' in, particularly given the incredible lack of foresight on the part of the human critter. Scary, that.

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by dr dij

by some special interests lobbied govt agency?

even if it then formed the bulk, say 2/3 or 3/4 of all the meat produced?

with only health food or specialty stores selling high priced 'free range' meat?

They already produce nutritional yeast in giant vats, fed on molasses. It actually is high in protein and has a good taste, kind of like dried whole egg flakes. The energy to produce it is half what equivalent protein would be from soybeans and the acreage is drastically reduced.

by boxfiddler

and if it came to that, I'd purchase a pair of rabbits and grow my own. Domestic rabbit is mighty good eatin'.

edit: A wide variety of things have been pronounced safe by government agencies, only to have that label removed after a few years. Government agencies have their own agenda and my safety from unsafe products is not likely on that agenda.

by gsg

Isn't that what Spam is?

It comes in a tube-like can, and there's this weird amorphous gel that allows it to slide out and plop wetly onto the plate with an ever-so-appetizing squelch, where it then just lies there.

by ontheropes

That and how hungry I was.

I've eaten stuff I couldn't even identify and it hasn't killed me, yet. I've switched my diet over to a flexitarian diet and don't really feel a need to eat meat but I would likely give it a try.

I'm pleased to know that someone is trying to find a way to feed the people of the world. Thank you for posting the article. The sooner a reliable product is developed the better. People are eating dirt for crying out loud.

Flexitarian link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/4shcmt

Dirt eating link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ystv7b

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