Scientists Suggest Growing Artificial Meat In Labs To Save Plant From Global Warming…
Because who wouldn’t want to eat a steak that was grown in a test tube?
(Guardian) — Meat grown artificially in labs will be a greener alternative for consumers who can’t bear to go vegetarian but want to cut the environmental impact of their food, according to new research.
The study found that growing meat in the lab rather than slaughtering animals will generate only a tiny fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with conventional livestock production.
The researchers believe that their work suggests artificial meat could help to feed the growing world population while reducing the impact on the environment.
According to the analysis by scientists from Oxford University and Amsterdam University, lab-grown tissue would produce greenhouse gases at up to 96% lower levels than raising animals. It would require between 7% and 45% less energy than the same volume of conventionally produced meat such as pork, beef and lamb or mutton, and could be engineered to use only 1% of the land and as little as 4% of the water associated with conventional meat.
“The environmental impacts of cultured meat could be substantially lower than those of meat produced in the conventional way,” said Hanna Tuomisto, the researcher at Oxford University who led the study.
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mm petri dish patties
Hey I have a better idea. Why don’t I tell my husband to go up north and shoot a couple of deer, some turkies, and a bear.
“…greener alternative for consumers who can’t bear to go vegetarian but want to cut the environmental impact of their food…”
Are there REALLY people that worry about that kind of thing? Never even crosses my mind…but I do thank God for cows every time I cut into a nice, rare grilled Rib Eye.
Hey, it’s soylent green without the people!
I would totally eat engineered meat if it tasted right. Think about getting filet mignon for a fraction of the price or animals we could otherwise not eat. Who hasn’t seen a baby penguin and wondered…”what does that taste like”? I’m totally all over this.
Geo-Engineering; Even better than nature!
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It’s un-natural to me, f’k these idiots, leave my food alone.
All our GMO produce is engineered to kill us off. I guess they need to step it up a notch with the meat. Pumping poultry and cattle full of toxic chemicals isn’t killing us off quickly enough.
“but want to cut the environmental impact of their food”
Says who?
@Trufax says:
June 20, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Who hasn’t seen a baby penguin and wondered…”what does that taste like”?
Tastes like spotted owl & clubbed baby seal sammiches.
How many trillions of dollars have been wasted on the scientific fraud of global warming?
Exactly which plant is being saved?
They’ve most likely already picked out the liberal donors who have been chosen to receive the billions of dollars in taxpayer money to “save us”.
That would be consistent with the Chicago method to solving problems:
Step 1. Determine how to profit from a problem that doesn’t exist yet.
Step 2. Manufacture the problem.
Step 3. Create a propaganda campaign to spread fear amongst the public.
Step 4. Determine who is the “most qualified” to fix the problem (the biggest campaign donor.)
Step 5. Create a new tax on the “evil” (insert activity here), and start writing checks to all your supporters.
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They all can go straight to hell and back.
We’ll get meat any day we want to where I live…they can stick it where the sun doesn’t shine sideways and sit on it.
No thank you.
Looks like the silly little Asians may have beaten this group. Here is an article about meat being made from Human Waste. It is totally vile and disgusting, but people are working on it.
Here is a link to the video, if you look at the label on the refrigerator door. It says Shit Burger. It’s at the 1.32 mark
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop/?test=faces
“Growing Artificial Meat In Labs To Save Plant…..”
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Doesn’t White Castle already do this?
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Actually, this sounds more appetizing than the Japanese experiments to produce a meat-like substance out of excrement (aka poop burger).
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20072270-71/japanese-scientist-creates-poop-burger-surely-not/
It’ll be the same as shifting auto emmissions from the tailpipe to the smokestack…no net effect. Creating “meat” would require the same inputs to create the same product…maybe in a different form, but it all has to get to the lab or wherever. While it may be difficult to control farmers, I’m sure the new meat-technicians will be immediately unionized into the TSA or some other meathead government agency/union.
What a bunch of Retards! (with all due respect to actual retards)
Know we know where obama came from
“Scientists Suggest Growing Artificial Meat In Labs To Save Plant From Global Warming…”
I have a wilting basil plant on my balcony. Would a little lab-grown artificial meat save it?
It is extremely unlikely to be cheaper than animals. An enormous human control would be exerted to keep meat culture producing. Think about it. Tests to keep the cultures clean, controls and checks for purity. Humongous industrial wast effluents to control and detoxify. An entire industry to be created to produce all the sophisticated media components. Consider: How much does it cost to clone a rare orchid vrs select and expand new strain from the jungle.
Regulation automatically makes everything more expensive.
Instead of seizing control of the “means of production”, these idiots want to individually replace each industry with a government regulated ‘Protected’ product.
The end result is the same as seizing all private property. The government OWNS everything at the end of the day.
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Trufax: in the dystopian graphic novel series “Transmetropolitan,” the story takes place in an unspecified future where cloning has advanced to the point that there are fast-food joints serving such delicacies as monkey burgers and caribou eyes, and even “long pig.”
If the test-tube meat looks, smells, tastes, and feels like the real thing, I don’t see a problem with this. If it drives down the cost of food, so much the better. I was a vegetarian for 10 years, and although I’d be the last one who’d want to preach at anyone over it, raising cattle for food is terribly ineffective in terms of input vs. output (how many pounds of grain it takes to make a pound of beef).
The key is control and this way they would take over another means of production and kill off the cattle industry. End goal is always more control
We all could enjoy doing the Tube Steak Boogey while eating tube steak on a stick!
Once we save the polar bears from the farting cows what are we going to do about the exploding (no pun) population of farting polar bears?
Even though I really doubt that they could ever replace a good steak I actually can see this as a possible solution to hunger in the poorer countries such as in Africa where water and/or grazing land is in short supply. I do not believe in man made global warming and could care less about CO2 issues, but produceing a badly needed product with significant reductions in power and other resources is always a good thing. Efficiency is a good thing.
Also, I might consider using lab grown meat in other dishes such as soups or sauces where meat is not a primary ingredient. Also, such items as Chicken Nuggets or Fried Fish Filets would probably not be noticably different.
WHAT ABOUT HALAL??
Take the Test-Tube and the Imam bends over, another “Holy Man” Shoves the Test-Tube up his Ass and Voila!! Halal Meat with that nice ?hitty taste that Muslims Love!!
Altered corn sends incorrect messaging to our genes which is one of the reasons diabetes is going up, that and corn syrup and high fructose corn sweeteners….hey those are altered corn produces too.
If we didn’t eat cows or drink their milk there would not be any cows.
Cool now we can kill all the wild life to save the planet…
Vegetarians have already invented faux meat made from soy and other veg matter and its good. Why re-invent the wheel?
Did you see the one on the Japanese guy who makes meat out of human waste? TRUE! At one point in the vid the fridge has a label Shit Burgers.
This is all silly bull shit. Scientist justifying there grant money. De fund this crap science. ’
@ Noelegy and all other Vegetarians/Vegans (Past, Present & Future)
If our ancestors back several millenia had made the same vegetarian/vegan choice as you did, we wouldn’t have the brainpower, collectively or individually, to decide much of anything. You may want to further note that in a survey of life on earth, herbivores (i.e., vegetarians) are usually the slowest and dumbest, often winding up as food for the quick and the clever.
Soylent Green!
Oh man they give a whole new meaning to mystery meat don’t they?
Just like in Japan with the turd steaks, now when kids say this taste like crap we can tell them well thats what it is now eat the shit and shut up.
I will NEVER give up my tube steak………stop crying Reggie,we have the house to ourselves
Idiots!
It’s Soylent Green alright. This story is almost six years old so it must be New and Improved Soylent Green.
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1098
Wasn’t this how “The Blob” and some other Hollywood monsters got started? Cultured in a test tube for humanitarian reasons, then got out and went berserk on the populace?
Have ya heard this one…They want us to eat our poop now …Ewwww I think I`m turnin canibal and Liberals on the menu.
It won’t be long until the First Wookie forces..hmm I mean suggests that school lunches should be made out of this crap.
“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.” -Henry Kissinger
When will we have the artificial freedom to try this artificial product?
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Ain’t it funny how the left objects to putting animals in a zoo, providing food and shelter for the animal, protecting them against poachers, and giving them free veterinary care……….but when they do the same to people they call it “FREEDOM”?
Do the tigers get a free cell phone too??? (at taxpayer expense)
Is the ‘Progressive paradise’ that liberals are building, the simulated “ideal human environment” for all, or only for the ‘scientific consensus’?
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Hey if they can make it as good as real meat at an equal or lesser cost and not have to slaughter millions of living animals then it sounds good to me. I don’t give a shit about the greenhouse gas part though. I wonder how the Muslims would make meat grown in a petri dish halal
@Sniffy
I ain’t watchin that………. LOL!
These morons, on judgement day they’re probably going to try to sue God, because He didn’t know what He was doing when he created the world.
Crap sandwich anyone?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces/
God wants us to eat animals.
That’s why He made them out of meat.
The only slight difficulty in this scenario is that the only culture they have managed to grow successfully is cancer cells.
A clone ribeye steak? Let’s do some math here and see what this motherfucker is going to cost you at your favorite steakhouse.
Average weight human male – 175 lbs. (we’re big where I live, not dried up wormy little fuckers like DC)
Average number of cells per adult – 100 Trillion
Average weight of steer (from whence comes ribeyes for you liberal retards) – 1200 lbs
Average number of cells per steer (straight line interpolation; for you liberals, it’s fucking magic) – 685 Trillion
9 ounces of ribeye – 320 Billion cells (more of that magic mathematics liberals)
Cost of cloning cells, per http://www.forbes.com/2001/11/26/1126cloning.html – estimates of up to $50,000 for 100 eggs.
Cost of that government-produced 9 oz ribeye – $16 Trillion for a 9 oz ribeye
What a fucking deal! Sure makes cattle ranches look like the models of efficiency doesn’t it? Oh, and don’t forget the 20% government mandated tip to the SEIU waiter, that amounts to $320B.
SavoirFaire, whatever makes you feel better. I was a vegetarian for personal reasons, and I went back to eating meat because I wanted to. No fanfare either way, and I didn’t go around preaching about my vegetarianism nor insist that anyone else take up my way of life.
Typically, meat-eaters were much more obnoxious to me over my dietary choices than I was to them. I always found it kind of funny that it caused such a kerfuffle.
Sure, humans were meant to eat an omnivorous and varied diet, I have no problem with that, but it’s reductio ad absurdum. You will never get 100% of people to do anything, except perhaps breathe, eat, and take up space, so saying “if everyone did X, then Y” is kind of a silly argument.
Soylent Shit
Meat is the REASON for our frontal lobes…
that’s why vegans are 10 points lower on the IQ scale..
Bring it on. It will create new industry and save the suffering of massive animal production and slaughtering. Been hoping this could be put on a fast track somehow. Yes please!
The path to Soylent Green is paved with good intentions.
The scariest phrase in the English language is ” We’re from the government and we want to help you.”
“slice emissions”
Bwaaahahaaaaa!
I’d like mustard on mine, lots and lots of mustard.
Noelegy, if cattle were raised on grass only, as they should be, there would be no grain used annnnnd they would produce food on land that is not suitable for crops.
Its a great system. Just needs to be used.
SavoirFaire and garrettc are on the right track! I started growing hydroponic tomatoes for fun to see what would happen. Would they grow better than my “dirt garden tomatoes?” Wow, they sure grew fast and they are really delicious! That’s only as long as the electric pump is running to circulate the water (How much does the electricity cost me? Can I afford to continue if the cost of energy necessarily skyrockets?), and only as long as I can afford to buy the big jugs of nutrient solution ($20 ea., and I’ve gone through 5 since the end of February), and only as long as my daughter and I can afford to go out every day and pick off the cutworm and hornworm caterpillars that are eating the hydroponic tomato plants but NOT the dirt garden tomato plants. There’s a cost to everything!
Just because something is new fangled and scientific, doesn’t mean it’s always better, healthier, greener, more efficient or more moral. Just look at what happened when moms started using baby formula instead of breastfeeding!
You guys are great, G-d bless you all!
great comments all!
but this one is the best!
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Beckwith says:
June 20, 2011 at 4:50 pm
God wants us to eat animals.
That’s why He made them out of meat
SWEET!
-former dairy farmer
Have these people been reading sci-fi? Like Frederick Pohl from the early fifties? http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1002