Lab-Grown Hamburger Makes It to the Menu

A lab grown hamburger doesn't sound very appealing to me.

La Sunshine wrote:

A lab grown hamburger doesn't sound very appealing to me.

Wait til you see what they want to do with chickens,remove the cerebral cortex so that they aren't stressed out because of their living conditions. I'll try to find the link. I laughed so frickin hard!

I believe I'd rather suffer myocardial infarction over at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas verses whatever strange kind of tumor and slow crippling death those things are going to start causing....
justy ™ sayin'...

soylent green might not be sooooo bad...of course there is always soylent yellow for our vegetarian friends...

We feed babies lab grown milk, but we call it baby formula.

Probably need to call this lab grown beef, "adult formula"?

...ps, my son was breast fed. A family decision.

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Gleaned from stem cells cultivated in a vat....think I'll keep doing business with my local butcher shop thank you...

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Better than the "recycled food" from the one lab in Japan. They were extracting proteins from feces.

The idea of lab-made meat has been around for a while. The concept is simple. You take stem cells from muscles of an animal, culture them in a lab with a nutrient "soup," and grow the muscle tissue into sheets. Now, the muscle tissue should be toned up before it is harvested, otherwise it is too mushy. So they would stretch the sheets of tissue over movable frames.

Now, just think of all the applications. You could have meat without cruelty. You could have beef without raising the whole cow and adding to the environmental issue. The meat would be lean too. Right now, if I understand correctly, this technology is only good for creating meat that is used in other products like chicken nuggets, hot dogs, or stews.

Spotted Girl wrote:

Better than the "recycled food" from the one lab in Japan. They were extracting proteins from feces.
The idea of lab-made meat has been around for a while. The concept is simple. You take stem cells from muscles of an animal, culture them in a lab with a nutrient "soup," and grow the muscle tissue into sheets. Now, the muscle tissue should be toned up before it is harvested, otherwise it is too mushy. So they would stretch the sheets of tissue over movable frames.
Now, just think of all the applications. You could have meat without cruelty. You could have beef without raising the whole cow and adding to the environmental issue. The meat would be lean too. Right now, if I understand correctly, this technology is only good for creating meat that is used in other products like chicken nuggets, hot dogs, or stews.

But..

the next thing is going to be tissue grown in a petri dish that wasn't given time to exercise or run free in the sun....or even worse...the term """ORGANIC """ thrown in which now makes it a billion times more costly then buying a hamburger in India...

I see a total recall soylent burger as the next TGIF flavour of the moment....9.95$..includes a side of your choice and a rude waitress with an "I HAVE TO WORK ON FRIDAY SO YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER...!!" attitude...

don't forget to leave a tip...

'Lab' grown...sounds like dog meat to me...and I've eaten dog meat..!

WHAT THE FREAK is all the commotion about over a "lab-grown" food item? We've been forced to eat "artificial" flavors for years....

We shouldn't be like our founders, eating organic food that did NOTHING to promote deadly food allergies in children and cancer in everyone like today.

justaguess wrote:

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the next thing is going to be tissue grown in a petri dish that wasn't given time to exercise or run free in the sun....or even worse...the term """ORGANIC """ thrown in which now makes it a billion times more costly then buying a hamburger in India...
I see a total recall soylent burger as the next TGIF flavour of the moment....9.95$..includes a side of your choice and a rude waitress with an "I HAVE TO WORK ON FRIDAY SO YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER...!!" attitude...
don't forget to leave a tip...
'Lab' grown...sounds like dog meat to me...and I've eaten dog meat..!

LOL! The tissue can be given artificial exercise. Lets just hope they don't give it anabolic steroids to make it bigger. Or worse, they just engineer animals (or use them as surrogates) that produce blobs of tissue instead of normal offspring, and the blobs of tissue would be fed by IV until they are ready to be harvested. It could have a very crude nervous system to exercise the tissue so it won't be mushy, and it would have no hair nor bones.

Once the technology is perfected, they could do it for much less. Remember, there won't be the expenses of raising cattle, hogs, or chickens.

Not so far fetched as growing new organs and skin for transplant in a petri dish:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8368976.stm

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/18/art...

http://www.famouspictures.org/index.php...

Spotted Girl wrote:

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LOL! The tissue can be given artificial exercise. Lets just hope they don't give it anabolic steroids to make it bigger. Or worse, they just engineer animals (or use them as surrogates) that produce blobs of tissue instead of normal offspring, and the blobs of tissue would be fed by IV until they are ready to be harvested. It could have a very crude nervous system to exercise the tissue so it won't be mushy, and it would have no hair nor bones.
Once the technology is perfected, they could do it for much less. Remember, there won't be the expenses of raising cattle, hogs, or chickens.

I think you justy ™ described Harrison Freerange....

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