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Post by Sergeant Dull on Nov 29, 2009 23:59:54 GMT 10
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Post by Trinity on Nov 30, 2009 0:04:42 GMT 10
Ooh, ooh, I do so hope it's socially accepted and that they don't find any associated risks! It does make so much sense.
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Post by Sergeant Dull on Nov 30, 2009 0:08:16 GMT 10
It won' be like the real thing unless they are able to put the muscle tissue under the kind of actions and stress it goes through in 'living' circumstances.
Unless you want a lump of meat goop to fry.
People at OcUK say it has the potential of being Quorn like in consistency and texture. I like Quorn, actually, but not with this kinda thing.
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Post by Trinity on Nov 30, 2009 0:15:21 GMT 10
I don't like meat anyway, really... so I wouldn't know how important the texture is to it tasting good, since it doesn't taste good to me. :/
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Post by Tené on Nov 30, 2009 0:24:35 GMT 10
I thought it was already possible to grow steak in a petri dish?
Anyway, I do hope this becomes a viable way of obtaining meat. The social, environmental and economical effects would be great; increasing the efficiency of farm space for the ever-growing population. Also I wonder what effect it would have on vegetarianism. Presumably anyone who refuses to eat meat out of sympathy for the animals wouldn't have such qualms about eating meat grown like this. Okay, after going so long without eating meat you may well not actually like it, but still...
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Post by Oberstleutnant Insipid on Nov 30, 2009 0:26:04 GMT 10
better have some SMASHINGLY good crackle
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Post by Sergeant Dull on Nov 30, 2009 0:39:38 GMT 10
Guess so XD I thought it was already possible to grow steak in a petri dish? Anyway, I do hope this becomes a viable way of obtaining meat. The social, environmental and economical effects would be great; increasing the efficiency of farm space for the ever-growing population. Also I wonder what effect it would have on vegetarianism. Presumably anyone who refuses to eat meat out of sympathy for the animals wouldn't have such qualms about eating meat grown like this. Okay, after going so long without eating meat you may well not actually like it, but still... You speak many truths. I'm not a huge fan of meats myself, the only one I can genuinely tolerate is chicken, because it tends to be more lean than anything else. I say this is a much better method than giving us bottles of protein goop in the future when the world goes to the sh*tter.  People will still be on the complaining side of 'Organic' food stuffs, however this eliminates the need for battery chickens and similar livestock rearing methods. It's potentially cheaper than the "unethical" methods used for cheap production. More space for free range livestock, more space for agricultural farming and cheaper meat? Hey why not. Although I say its good to have more forest. The only other alternative is population control. |
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Post by Rhinoce Breakdancerus on Nov 30, 2009 2:41:58 GMT 10
People will still be on the complaining side of 'Organic' food stuffs. The Organic guys don't make sense anyways. Never mind we've been modifying food for thousands of years in the form of domestication, and that if we were going to go to all organic foods tomorrow, we'd either have to cut down more trees to make the amount to feed everyone or let 1/3 of the population starve because of high prices and low yield. But GM foods are the only practical way to feed everyone. |
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Post by Trinity on Nov 30, 2009 3:18:05 GMT 10
Personally, I'd say that persuading farmers to cultivate trees and meadows on their land instead of animals and getting meat for food from labs is the ideal goal, but it's never gonna happen... people are too stuck in their ways.
It'd work even better if the lab guys gave money to the old farmers as an incentive not to go back to farming animals, but I'm fairly sure there's something wrong with that somewhere.
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Post by stupid hos is my enemy on Nov 30, 2009 4:02:07 GMT 10
There's no hope in hell of this ever catching on, not in our lifetime anyway. Do you have any idea how unionised farmers are? They will bitch like PMSing women the second it looks like they're going to lose business. Telling them that their farms can either be used for veggies or development isn't going to change a damn thing, because they don't give a sh*t.
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Post by Trinity on Nov 30, 2009 4:09:16 GMT 10
I know. At this school we have about half artist-types, quarter normal people (including me, believe it or not) and quarter fourteen-going-on-forty farmer-types. That's why I said things like "ideal goal" and "never gonna happen" |
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Post by Sergeant Dull on Nov 30, 2009 4:12:35 GMT 10
...and quarter fourteen-going-on-forty farmer-types. That's why I said things like "ideal goal" and "never gonna happen" XDDDD Man that's funny. |
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Post by Trinity on Nov 30, 2009 7:22:35 GMT 10
Seriously, there's this one guy who wrote, when asked what his favourite part of the term was, "seeing the school lambs go to slaughter". But then, that same guy thought I was a member of staff for the first year and a half he was here, so I don't think he's exactly... ehm, how do we put this... thinking along the same lines as the rest of us all the time?
(we do keep lambs/sheep, chickens, turkeys and ducks, to be fair. the lambs and turkeys are for eating; the chickens are for eggs; i'm not sure what the ducks are for but i'd say probably eggs as well.)
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Post by The Pletch on Nov 30, 2009 10:15:21 GMT 10
I live in what is essentially the ole-fashion farmin' capital of Pennsylvania, which is saying a lot. So let me tell you that farmers bitch like no tomorrow the second they lose money at all. It doesn't matter if it's their fault or the fault of some uncontrollable factor like weather patterns. They just love to bitch.
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Post by Sergeant Dull on Dec 1, 2009 2:14:37 GMT 10
Wow.
Why aren't farmers extinct yet?
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