Would you eat steak if it had been grown in a petri dish?

Yeah..
That brings up another point; If you're veggie or vegan do you really think your body would be able to handle eating meat after NOT eating it for so long??

I remember a few years ago, I slipped up and ate some steak at a restaraunt with mi padres, and afterwards that whole night and throughout the next day I felt like I was going to vomit and had the worst stomach cramps in the world. Ever since I haven't slipped up ... I never wanted to feel that sick to my stomach again.

My boyfriend's mom was talking to me yesterday about my vegan lifestyle [she's extremely open minded about it] and she was saying how when she first began karate her sensei asked her to try and avoid red meat... she didn't eat it for a long long time, and now whenever she tries to eat a little she gets sick to her stomach.

But... how many people have ever not eaten a vegetable for a long time, and later ate some and got sick? I know of none.

To me, it's just clear that meat is unhealthy ...and no matter how it is "grown" you should try to avoid it for your OWN sake.

 

Give the mofos time Patrick.. Do you want it cut up and put in bun as well ?.



Science is still far from reproducing artificially an entire natural meat, such as a steak or a chicken breast. But "the technology is there to produce something like a processed meat, such as a chicken nugget," Mr Matheny said.

The problem with "growing" a steak, with its own intrinsic structure, is that blood vessels, fat and connective tissue would also have to be produced.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they have taken a step towards solving that problem - thanks to work on creating replacement parts for human beings. The MIT team used a mix of cells to grow muscle tissue that had its own blood vessels. In this case, human tissue was implanted into mice and blood flowed into the engineered muscle. Morris Benjaminson, a bio-engineer at Touro College, said fish muscle cells cultured at his laboratory for Nasa had passed a "sniff panel". Mr Benjaminson said his researchers cooked their laboratory-produced fish and "it looked and smelled like the fish you can buy in the supermarket". He added: "With a little bit of money and time we could produce probably something that resembles a fish fillet," Crab, shrimp or other shellfish also could be cultured.

http://www.hedweb.com/animimag/vat-food.html

 

I'm just saying if they're growing it, then it would not have unnecessary amounts of fat.

 

Yes i remeber you saying this in your first post.. heavens, silly me .

 

I find it funny how there is always some excuse as to how everything is bad and wrong.. If it's not cruelty to the animals, it's the toptally unrelated notion that there are people starving elsewhere or whatever.

 

Patrick you make me smile... the effort you put in is groundbreaking.

 

That's me and my friend Ann shakin' what our mommas gave us.

 

Well, I'm a meat-eater and I wouldn't touch that shit with a barge-pole.

 

Jim you bring up a good point.

Actually I was talking to my boyfriend about that last night and he said "How many meat eaters do you think would want to eat it? If they had the choice between meat from an actual cow, or something that was grown...I'd say a lot of meat eaters would go with the cow."

And it's true...I would think that the only people that would be more willing to try this "new meat" is if they already had somewhat of a vegetarian idealogy and felt compassion towards animals...otherwise why WOULD a meat eater eat this rather than "real" meat?

I dont think this new science will change farms... It may put a dent in them, but not much at all.

 

Mmmmmmmm. Smeat.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4148164.stm

heres another liink on the subject