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?

Comments

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Huh, fascinating... thanks for the link!

I'm "mostly pesco-vegetarian" -- I eat fish, eggs, and occasionally game meats, and I find this much *less* disturbing than what's been reported about the factory farming practices that have been going on for years.

However, I do find it a bit disturbing that there's no mention of what would be used to "feed" the meat... it's still living animal tissue which has still got to get its energy and nutrition from somewhere...