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Most everybody knows that PETA is offering a $1,000,000 reward to anyone who can grow meat in a laboratory. This question has three parts: 1.) Is anyone actually working on growing meat in a lab? 2.) Do you think is even remotely possible? 3.) Would you ever buy lab meat if it found it's way to grocery stores?
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No, No, and, uh,...NO!
1)My uncle does medical/biological research and not that I have heard, 2)possibly, dolly the sheep remember? 3)NOT A CHANCE!! I work for a large Farm/Feedlot, firstly it would be creepy, secondly can't be spending money on an industry trying to put me out of a job!
1.Why would you spend so much on such a pointless endeavor when you drive you car down the road and hit meat that would probably taste better.
2.I dont think it is possible now because any "meat" that could be grown would probably lack many nutrients and the excellent taste of meat.
3.My dad is a farmer, so as 16gapheasent said, why would i support something that is trying to put my family out of bussiness???
This is a shameless request but are your freezers getting as empty as mine? so lets buy some real American raised USDA Grade A Beef! Only sayin' since we shipped off 220 head to IBP or Tyson rather today lol but seriously This is an assanine concept as far as nutritional value goes they can insert vitamins and minerals, but I agree on the taste issue, probably would taste as steril as the enviornment it was engineered in
Tissues can be grown in a lab, but not in some magical spontaneous generation way, or in a way that would produce any useable amount of food. An example being when they grew the human ear on the mouse's back. But who the hell would eat any of that anyway?
Kill it and Grill it! The best way to eat meat.
Another on the long list of STUPID ideas the PETA morons have come up with.
Ever hear about the one where they tried to put hunter orange on deer to protect them? What a crock! We can just see 'em from farther away!
Does it count if I breed, raise, then slaughter a cow in a lab, it will have technically been grown in a lab.
Yeah, Steve Colbert did a report on it, this scientist from Russia, I think is doing some research and calling the product, SHMEAT! A combo of $H*T and MEAT! WTF?
I read in a book that it actually is possible to make fish meat in a laboratory, If I remember right it was called the Founding Fish. What they do is combine the correct fats and proteins and its supposed to make a meat. But I know I wouldn't eat it for a million bucks
I know what GOD would say
Get your own jar of clay to create life!!!
If you don't have to kill it first then it ain't even close to being meat.
Yes people are working on it and it is possible. We talked about this a year or so in my bioengineering class. I sure as hell wouldn't buy it, but I guarantee you PETA members would.
That doesn't make sense. They don't eat meat but they are offering a $1,000,000 for meat?
buckhunter this is PETA that we are talking about, when does anything they do make sense. For the record no way am I going to eat it or give it to my family.
If it wasn't killed it ain't gettin' grilled.
I know for a fact there are colleges doing research on growing organs for transplants such as kidneys. My son spent a summer at Emory University studying Biomedical engineering. Haven't heard anything about growing meat, but organs yes. Son decided he did not like playing God and went on to become a Chemical Engineer.
I wouldn't so much as walk into a store that sold that Bull$hit.
Lab meat? That might go better in Korea, where yellow dog is on the menu. Sorry, couldn't resist.
So, PETA thinks it is okay to grow meat and consume it, though it would still be living tissue? They must not be from this planet. I've got no appetite for it, especially if in the form of green wafers.
I would never eat it.
P.E.T.A people-eating-tasty-animals
I wonder if PETA would protest if the labs were dirty or the test tubes were too small?
It is called a tissue culture and it is done everyday. I don't think it would work on a large scale. It could be used to produce "protein" if we ever get into a time when we couldn't do so in a conventional way. Anyone remember the old Charlton Heston movie, Soylent Green? Yuck...
Beekeeper - Soylent Green is the green wafers.
1. Yes there are.
2. They already have. They're now working on making it commercially viable.
3. It's a forgone conclusion. We won't have a choice. It's the only way we're going to be able to feed the expanding human population.
Outside of the first world, people eat considerable less meat per capita then we first worlders do. That's due to economic reasons. That's going to change as they industrialize and want to live a more Western lifestyle.
It makes a lot of sense. PETA people don't object to meat per se. They object to the way we obtain it.
Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's founder, is quoted as having said in an interview, "I loved meat, liver above all ... My God, I would eat it tomorrow. Now. I would eat roadkill if I could.
I'd eat burgers, steak, anything. I love car racing and meat. I am a boy at heart, I am my father's son ... On my way down into the District, I would stop in Potomac and pick up triple-ground prime meat ... I would break a raw egg and take onions and capers and I would mix it all, and I would go about checking on the animals while eating this raw food right out of my hand. I am just a raw-oyster, raw-meat-eating person who happened to find out what happened in the meat industry, and I just can't support it."
buckhunter wrote:
"That doesn't make sense. They don't eat meat but they are offering a $1,000,000 for meat?"
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No, No, and, uh,...NO!
I know what GOD would say
Get your own jar of clay to create life!!!
That doesn't make sense. They don't eat meat but they are offering a $1,000,000 for meat?
1.Why would you spend so much on such a pointless endeavor when you drive you car down the road and hit meat that would probably taste better.
2.I dont think it is possible now because any "meat" that could be grown would probably lack many nutrients and the excellent taste of meat.
3.My dad is a farmer, so as 16gapheasent said, why would i support something that is trying to put my family out of bussiness???
Tissues can be grown in a lab, but not in some magical spontaneous generation way, or in a way that would produce any useable amount of food. An example being when they grew the human ear on the mouse's back. But who the hell would eat any of that anyway?
Kill it and Grill it! The best way to eat meat.
Another on the long list of STUPID ideas the PETA morons have come up with.
Ever hear about the one where they tried to put hunter orange on deer to protect them? What a crock! We can just see 'em from farther away!
Yeah, Steve Colbert did a report on it, this scientist from Russia, I think is doing some research and calling the product, SHMEAT! A combo of $H*T and MEAT! WTF?
Lab meat? That might go better in Korea, where yellow dog is on the menu. Sorry, couldn't resist.
So, PETA thinks it is okay to grow meat and consume it, though it would still be living tissue? They must not be from this planet. I've got no appetite for it, especially if in the form of green wafers.
Beekeeper - Soylent Green is the green wafers.
It is called a tissue culture and it is done everyday. I don't think it would work on a large scale. It could be used to produce "protein" if we ever get into a time when we couldn't do so in a conventional way. Anyone remember the old Charlton Heston movie, Soylent Green? Yuck...
I know for a fact there are colleges doing research on growing organs for transplants such as kidneys. My son spent a summer at Emory University studying Biomedical engineering. Haven't heard anything about growing meat, but organs yes. Son decided he did not like playing God and went on to become a Chemical Engineer.
I wouldn't so much as walk into a store that sold that Bull$hit.
Yes people are working on it and it is possible. We talked about this a year or so in my bioengineering class. I sure as hell wouldn't buy it, but I guarantee you PETA members would.
I wonder if PETA would protest if the labs were dirty or the test tubes were too small?
If you don't have to kill it first then it ain't even close to being meat.
1. Yes there are.
2. They already have. They're now working on making it commercially viable.
3. It's a forgone conclusion. We won't have a choice. It's the only way we're going to be able to feed the expanding human population.
Outside of the first world, people eat considerable less meat per capita then we first worlders do. That's due to economic reasons. That's going to change as they industrialize and want to live a more Western lifestyle.
It makes a lot of sense. PETA people don't object to meat per se. They object to the way we obtain it.
Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's founder, is quoted as having said in an interview, "I loved meat, liver above all ... My God, I would eat it tomorrow. Now. I would eat roadkill if I could.
I'd eat burgers, steak, anything. I love car racing and meat. I am a boy at heart, I am my father's son ... On my way down into the District, I would stop in Potomac and pick up triple-ground prime meat ... I would break a raw egg and take onions and capers and I would mix it all, and I would go about checking on the animals while eating this raw food right out of my hand. I am just a raw-oyster, raw-meat-eating person who happened to find out what happened in the meat industry, and I just can't support it."
buckhunter wrote:
"That doesn't make sense. They don't eat meat but they are offering a $1,000,000 for meat?"
Does it count if I breed, raise, then slaughter a cow in a lab, it will have technically been grown in a lab.
buckhunter this is PETA that we are talking about, when does anything they do make sense. For the record no way am I going to eat it or give it to my family.
If it wasn't killed it ain't gettin' grilled.
I read in a book that it actually is possible to make fish meat in a laboratory, If I remember right it was called the Founding Fish. What they do is combine the correct fats and proteins and its supposed to make a meat. But I know I wouldn't eat it for a million bucks
I would never eat it.
P.E.T.A people-eating-tasty-animals
1)My uncle does medical/biological research and not that I have heard, 2)possibly, dolly the sheep remember? 3)NOT A CHANCE!! I work for a large Farm/Feedlot, firstly it would be creepy, secondly can't be spending money on an industry trying to put me out of a job!
This is a shameless request but are your freezers getting as empty as mine? so lets buy some real American raised USDA Grade A Beef! Only sayin' since we shipped off 220 head to IBP or Tyson rather today lol but seriously This is an assanine concept as far as nutritional value goes they can insert vitamins and minerals, but I agree on the taste issue, probably would taste as steril as the enviornment it was engineered in
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