Can they make other pork objects, like swords?
Investor pulls out of Facebook, pumps cash into pork-printing joint
News that maverick venture capitalist Peter Thiel dumped 20 million Facebook shares – about $400m worth – last week was accompanied by an announcement about a small investment he made around the same time: in a printable meat company. Looks like biotech company Modern Meadow's ambition to print out a "pork sheet" is more …
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Thursday 23rd August 2012 12:31 GMT stucs201
Standards required
This will work alot better if we can get the makers of bacon printers to talk to bakers and agree on a standard size so that the bacon fits the bread properly. However I'm not hopeful since there still isn't agreement between bakers and toaster manufacturers about the correct size for a piece of bread.
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Thursday 23rd August 2012 13:45 GMT HeyMickey
Finally, an opportunity to deny PETA some campaign funding...
Hopefully the scientists behind this will claim the $1million off PETA:
http://www.peta.org/features/In-Vitro-Meat-Contest.aspx
Anything that takes money out of the pockets of those nut-nuts gets my thumbs up. Maybe they could even take the million dollars and give it to a real animal charity. Like, you know, one that doesn't keep hundreds of dead dogs in a meat locker then throw some of them in a neighbor's bin when that gets full...
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Thursday 23rd August 2012 13:48 GMT 27escape
not that different to some vegan products
As far as manufacturing things goes, people do not question how their quorn or tofu is made, nor question the chemicals involved. Why should a meat printing factory be any different?
I am quite happy to have printed meat of a certain quality, likely beats out the pink slime that McDonalds were using.
If this sort of protein uses less resources than growing a pig or a cow then all is good.
Sorry farmers!