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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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  1. JDX Gold badge

    Can they make other pork objects, like swords?

  2. AndeckVee
    Coat

    3d pork products

    Ron Jeremy and Ann Summers walk into a taxidermist... that is all

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Price

    I bet the printers will be cheap but the oink cartridges will cost a fortune!

  4. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Trollface

    You can't print the bacon!

    Salt will clog up the print head!!

    Now, how do I dial a halal piece of lamb??

  5. 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.

    1. TRT Silver badge

      Re: Standards required

      You have to allow for a 5mm bleed...

      1. kend1
        Joke

        Re: Standards required

        requires iBread [rectangular with rounded corners]

  6. John A Blackley

    "The pork sheet will be electrically stimulated in the bioreactor chamber"

    I can hear, now, the cries of, "It's aliiiive! It's aliiive! Bwahahaha!"

    1. Monkey Bob
      Megaphone

      Igor, throw the switch!

  7. HeyMickey
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    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...

  8. 27escape
    Happy

    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!

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    porker

    from one pig of a company.

    to a company of a pig.

    piggy go oink.

    were can i snout out more.

    cash,cash,i need more cash.

    push,push,must push harder.

    i need more than anyone else.

    oink,oink,goes piggy.

    must be first.

    must beat bankers.

    and greedy others.

    oink,oink,goes piggy.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    A countryside with few animals in?

    and no one to maintain the green and pleasant pastures.

    That will be an interesting experience.

    1. Thorne

      Re: A countryside with few animals in?

      It will all become suberbia anyway

  11. Local Group
    Happy

    Pie in the sky

    for dessert?

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