whoa, NEAT.

[permetaform]

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?

Comments

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's really interesting.

Sheets of meat! Nifty! And slightly gross. But nifty!

(Of course, I'm kinda fond of the idea of my meat coming from discernable parts of animals.)

[permetaform]

heee! I just kinda imagine these tuning-fork-type things stretching the sheets sorta like those taffy machines you see.

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

Oh, now I'm imagining beef-flavored taffy.

Ew.

[permetaform]

aheh, oops. XD

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

And to clarify:
my concerns about lab-grown meat would be along the lines of "Engineered meat? What went into it? What's been tweaked?" Even buying meat now, I tend to go for butchers who carve up their own meat, who know where their slabs of meat are coming from, more or less. Best lamb I've ever had was in Australia: ranch-grown and not fed anything but whatever it foraged.

I do try to avoid engineered produce, when possible (which, here in the USA, is rarely, but I try) because there just hasn't been enough research into some of it to ease my mind: I'm all for feeding people, but I (being rich on the global scale and therefore having the luxury to say this and still eat) would like more trials and checking-out done first. Putting potato genes into apples is great in theory: if one is safe and the other is safe, the two together are safe, right? My grandma tried that with bleach and ammonia: didn't work so well.

And I suppose there's part of me that's more suspicious and paranoid than skeptical. Though even that part of me admits that the possibilities here are amazing. And the idea of giant sheets of meat is kinda cool, in its own creepy way.

[permetaform]

ahhh, yeah, me and the roommates had roughly the same discussion...in the end I think I bear down way more on the "I don't care if it's food, unless I keel over upon eating it". I think this is probably due alot to my upbringing, and I'm kinda known for having a strong stomach anyways...