@Pet Peeve
Upvoted simply because you hate PETA. Great minds think alike!
Boffins at Maastricht University, Netherlands have managed to grow synthetic beef from the stem cells of a slaughtered cow. But how does it taste? The world will find out next Monday, when the first hamburger made from the man-made meat is cooked and served at an unnamed "exclusive west London venue," as reported by The …
"I'm rather annoyed that PETA is in favor of the idea. I was really looking forward to all their brains exploding when presented a tasty hamburger that animal died making."
Assuming you meant 'that no animal died making' then I'd point you at the bit in TFA that says "You basically kill animals and take all the stem cells from them"
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I've eaten crocodile burgers, kangaroo burgers, ostrich burgers, quorn burgers and soy burgers. I'll try this stuff for comparison.
For reference, Croc needs cooking on a barbecue with some nicely smelly wood. Apple is good. Roo is just yummy and ostrich is a good all-rounder that never really disappoints. The vegetarian options are good enough for everyday.
... there's a way of getting protein that's a hell of a lot cheaper, by using insects.
Now of course most people's immediate reaction is "Eww! Insects...!" but, as a recent documentary showed, there are more than a few countries around the world where people are happily and healthily eating insects.
To get away from the "It's a bug!" reaction, take the insects, grind them up, reconstitute and colour the protein, bung in some flavouring if you want and you'll have something which is basically what turns up in burgers these days anyway.
'To get away from the "It's a bug!" reaction, take the insects, grind them up, reconstitute and colour the protein, bung in some flavouring if you want and you'll have something which is basically what turns up in burgers these days anyway.'
Much healthier / tastier than what turns up in burgers, Shirley?
If it CAN produce inexpensive meat that acts nutritionally like (or better than) a slice of cow, pig, et cetera, fantastic. Solve waste disposal problems, too, if we don't need to raise as many real cows (and have as many feedlots washing who- knows- what into rivers and aquifers). Some concern about the "mother cow" whose stem cells will seed the process -- I hope Bossy will have been raised on grass and real food, not pumped full of Monsanto's finest chemical soups, antibiotics, growth hormones, et cetera.
I feel kinda sorry for the farmers though, think how many this may put out of business.
Although I suppose all that farm land could be repurposed for agriculture. With all the cattle land moved to growing crops we may finally ge farms focusing on quality over quantity since y'know, not as much demand for quanityt as quality if there's more of it.
Considering recent findings showing that in the DNA strands of GMO foods, the GMO part doesn't stick well so to speak and finds better adhesion on the host (that's YOU!) it appears that we have no frigging clue what the hell we're doing and maybe, thus, just maybe, we shouldn't feed humans that sort of monstrosity until we're sure what it does to animal.
Synthi-meat? Sounds like someone is pulling a fast one here, make sure it's not 'Soylent Green' before tuckling in :-)
This is all very clever, but the point escapes me - it must be cheaper and tasitier to grow one's animal protein in the traditional manner......oh, I see - this synthi-meat won't contribute to global warming due to it's lack of methane emissions :-)
BTW, I believe 'The Space Merchants' was written by both Frederik Pohl AND Cyril Kornbluth - David Willis omitted Cyril Kornbluth from his credits, which means Mr. Kornbluth didn't get the recognition he deserved for such a cracking read :-)
Sometimes I wonder if these two guys actually had managed to predict the future - now, to which advertising behmoth(s?) can we assign the 'Chlorella Protiens' role?
Penguin 'coz that's what this stuff will taste like :-)