Topic: Scientists Create Artificial Meat

[sam]

"The Telegraph reports that scientists have created the first artificial meat by extracting cells from the muscle of a live pig and putting them in a broth of other animal products where the cells then multiplied to create muscle tissue. Described as soggy pork, researchers believe that it can be turned into something like steak if they can find a way to 'exercise' the muscle and while no one has yet tasted the artificial meat, researchers believe the breakthrough could lead to sausages and other processed products being made from laboratory meat in as little as five years time. '"What we have at the moment is rather like wasted muscle tissue. We need to find ways of improving it by training it and stretching it, but we will get there," says Mark Post, professor of physiology at Eindhoven University. "You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals." Animal rights group Peta has welcomed the laboratory grown meat announcing that "as far as we're concerned, if meat is no longer a piece of a dead animal there's no ethical objection while the Vegetarian Society remained skeptical. "The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered. It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust.""

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I've heard of these projects before and I'm not sure I approve.

[Sandra]

As long as it tastes as good as real meat and is cheaper then there shouldnt be a problem.
They do a similar thing with textured vegetable protein and quorn dont they 

[sam]

As long as it tastes as good as real meat and is cheaper then there shouldnt be a problem.

just something about it though... I wouldn't trust it. To be honest the more I think about things the more I want to go properly natural and cut out all the crap, but then again I like the crap.

Also raises interesting issues of vegetarianism..

[Sandra]

You cant get much more natural than something that lives, breathes and walks while converting all that crappy stuff it eats into meat Sam