Pork, it's the meat of kings

[nooblet]

It's made from pig, try it with onion rings.

[barbrolie]

Apparently, they can grow it in a lab now.

Now coming to a grocery store near you in 2014!!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/0...uld-you-eat-it

[John Snowstorm]

Pork tastes a lot like human flesh. In the cannibal cultures of the Marquesas islands of Polynesia, human meat is referred to as "long pig".

[Palem]

the only reason this thread exists is because bacon exists

[Mauler]

Vegetarians are weird

[barbrolie]

Death by bacon: vanilla soft serve with fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles and a piece of bacon. Now at Burger King.

[goodz]

Apparently, they can grow it in a lab now.

Now coming to a grocery store near you in 2014!!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/0...uld-you-eat-it

20$ says the scientist backing this does not intend to eat the pitri dish meat

[John Snowstorm]

20$ says the scientist backing this does not intend to eat the pitri dish meat

i'd take that bet. scientists always try their crazy **** out on themselves, its actually part of the law with regards human testing.

[Bishop]

What a ****ty article.

[flutterby]

Mr. Grumpypants, correct answer is that it's old news.

[goodz]

I just dont think he will make it part of his staple diet. Interesting patent to hold tho. I suspect in the name of saving animals he would not drop his earnings from the patent either if it meant it would be more wide spread.

[John Snowstorm]

saving animals?

Nothing would damage the global population of our herd animals more than us stopping eating them. We put an awful lot of work into maintaining the stock. Do people really think that if everyone became vegetarian over the next twenty years that we'd just turn excess animals loose into the wild or something?

[nooblet]

That's a pretty obtuse argument, though.

I don't see what's wrong with artificially grown meat. At some point it would be cheaper and preferable to grow meat than raise a whole cow or pig, feed it and deal with the attendant waste products for years, and spend cash on machinery to butcher the animals. That is a long way off.

The anti-frankenfood activists baffle me, because their whole reasoning is based on bull****. It would be different if they attacked the things Monsanto has done with GM crops, which are really, really ****ty; but instead it's based on a stupid "durrr, it's not in nature" argument. Most of it comes from the envrionmentalist movement being guided by people who largely just want a pretext to impose their classist view on the world, and have used environmentalism purely as an excuse to impose austerity measures that often have little or nothing to do with environmental damage.

In b4 move to Poliitcs. :p

[barbrolie]

I just dont think he will make it part of his staple diet. Interesting patent to hold tho. I suspect in the name of saving animals he would not drop his earnings from the patent either if it meant it would be more wide spread.

I think it will go much the same direction as things did with monsanto. There will be a strong lobbying effort to prevent having to mark lab grown meat as lab grown. People won't know what they are buying. There will be a group of people claiming that GM meat is harmful so go organic. There will be another group calling the organic group a bunch of nuts.

In the meantime, the company that will produce this meat will develop a very large and powerful political presence, will buy members of local government, the congress and the senate, contribute massively to presidential campaigns, will buy a baseball team at whose games it will give premium seats to politicians, will lobby to outlaw all other kinds of meats to get a market monopoly, and will find flimsy excuses to go after farmers who continue to grow meat old school.

It's been done before. Just replace meat with sugarcane/jute/cotton/gm foods/healthcare whatever.

[pie]

Pork = yucky.