whoa, NEAT.

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Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale

via telophase

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thought in response to comments: is this partially creepy 'cause most of the more integrated aspects of tissue enginnering is skin grafts (burn victims) and so lab-grown meat is associated with cannibalism? or is it just on principle?

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[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Oryx and Crake? One of its (many) disturbing images is that of a bioengineered chicken that is a bunch of giant blobby breast meat and a gullet, for feeding.

I guess this is marginally less ooky than that, but it still grosses me out.

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o.0 huh. ::goes over to amazon.com to peek at book::

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

It's a wonderful book. I'm hot and cold on Margaret Atwood -- sometimes I adore her and sometimes I'm annoyed by her. This is one of the very good ones, though.