Lab Grown "meat"

stinkynuts

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I would eat it, if it tasted good and was safe. Just because it's "man-made" doesn't mean it's bad. It would also save the lives of many animals.
 

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Not at all convinced. Notice they don't say how they would intend to feed the cells, or with what.
 

Eli

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I always wondered why no one on Star Trek ever ordered baby-back ribs from the replicator.
 
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What I always wondered was why did they have waiters and bartenders if all they had to do was order from the replicator?

And I don't recall anyone ever ordering a real meal from the replicator. It was always Klingon whiskey, Deanna Troi's chocolate ice cream, or Captain Picard's tea.
 

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Of course what's cool is that you could order veal from the replicator and that would be cool. But what I really want to know is if the replicator does Kosher or Halal?
 
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If holographic bullets could kill, could holographic food then be edible? How would the body digest light molecules?
 

Eli

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What I didn't get is that people would have sex with holographic woman and yet when the program was shut down their wouldn't be a puddle of sperm on the floor. :confused:
 

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In fact I recall in an early episode, Wesley Crusher fell into a holographic body of water, and when he left the holodeck and went to the bridge, he was still wet.

But replicated food is not holographic food. It is resequenced molecules from ship's waste. Commander Tucker once answered space-program fan mail on Enterprise. schoolchildren wrote to the crew about their mission and one kid wanted to know what happens to the ships waste? Tucker answered with an astonished, "a poop question?" and then responded by explaining how they resequence the molecules in their poop and garbage to replicate items like boots and hand-held tools. There were no food replicators on the first enterprise so they had an onboard chef that noone saw. It is through extrapolation we can conclude that replication of food eventually evolved through the same means.

Lab grown meat, on the other hand sounds dangerous. While the cells of animal flesh have been cloned in small amounts for medical purposes such as skin grafts, these larger sheets could en up more like mush than animal flesh due to the lack of excercise. Its still inconclusive what stretching will do for it. Real animals will still need to be harvested to provide stem cells.
 

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Are they going to feed it to other meat eating animals to see the effects first? What will the scientists next experiments be? Maybe they can grow a cure for many other more serious viruses. I just finished watching the movie Outbreak again and truly question the link between scientists and Government and wonder if the cure for somethings is not already known and if we people ourselves are not guinea pigs for experiments. Honestly if I knew this was on the market I would not be the first to be in line to eat it.

I also question this last statement "The US Food and Drug Administration has asked companies not to market any products that involve cloned animals until their safety has been evaluated." Does this mean that some types of meat could already be in American stores with the exception of cloned animals???
 

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If you can grow "meat" from a cell, it's not going to become a living and breathing creature - more like a fruit or vegetable.
It's one way of keeping out the inefficient part of the process - the animal, but I'd still worry about the long term effects of this on humans.
How about growing algae to eat that will be nutritious - sounds easier and is probably healthier? :rolleyes:
 
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