Test Tube Meat?

[JackLuis]

First ‘test-tube’ hamburger to be produced this year

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The world’s first “test-tube” meat, a hamburger made from a cow’s stem cells, will be produced this fall, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference on Sunday.

Post’s aim is to invent an efficient way to produce skeletal muscle tissue in a laboratory that exactly mimics meat, and eventually replace the entire meat-animal industry.

I wonder if they can make fillet Mignon, would be silly to just make round steak, which is what you'd expect from a tube.

 

[Stella_Omega]

They've got a ways to go. Right now the meat is bloodless and mostly flavorless-- and I'm betting that a steady diet of it would seriously reduce our interior ecosystems that keeps us healthy.

If you're going to go for vat-bred protein, make sure you eat your earth-grown veggies!

 

[sr71plt]

I can wait. (Of course, I have no idea when the last time I had hamburger was anyway.)

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I fail to see the advantage of turning one's protein supply over to a major industrial complex rather than direct from either the field or a farm. I have serious economic-environmental issues with this. But then, I have never felt that I had any particular duty to keep vegetarians happy.

 

[TE999]

*Must. Not. Make. Tube. Steak. Joke*

I dunno about this stem cell burger business. We have enough mystery meat already at McDonald's, Burger King, Bob's Big Boy, Carl's Jr., Krystal, White Castle and Hardees.

This joker sounds like a bird and bunny nut in saying he wants to 'replace the meat animal industry'. How are cowboys and illegal immigrants ... excuse me, undocumented workers ... supposed to make a living. Hell, I like my meat from a cow, not a goddamn petri dish.

[Don't tell anyone, but Soylent Green is people]

 

[Dual_Triode]

I'd have to wash that replicated burger down with some synthohol.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'd have to wash that replicated burger down with some synthohol.

You been to Quark's Bar again ?

I whole-heartedly agree with the Bear.

But if this goo could be made real cheap and a bit more wholesome, might it help the starving millions ?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Plenny of AH posters love tube steak already.

 

[ishtat]

In America a McDonalds "Angus Burger" is 30% Angus beef so what is the other 70%? Any conspiracy theories?

 

[LucyH]

I wonder whether lab grown burgers would be considered kosher. And if so, could they be used to make a kosher cheeseburger?