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.:MBK:. said:
if it tastes as good as the "real" thing, i couldnt care how it was cultivated, im willing to eat meat off an animal thats been killed and carved up, im sure i could manage synthetically grown, but again, aslong as it tastes as good
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Don't give a **** as long as it tastes good!
 
As for the texture, surely they will just work out ways to emulate the different muscle groups, eg stretch it into strings and then wrap these together, or other techniques, to give different texture types. In fact they'll probably produce whole new textures and tastes which people prefer.

I would try and avoid it and buy the real stuff, but knowing the nanny state etc they'd probably tax the hell out of the 'unhealthy' meats (ie all the real ones) to make it prohibitvely expensive to all but the rich folk.
 
Don't think we're talking gourmet steak fillet here, but industrial scale. I'm sure McDonald's would love this. They are already half way there.

Unfortunately, it seems inevitable. Future generations are all doomed to eat hydroponic vegetables and lab-grown animal proteins. Not to mention breathing oxygen produced by artificial trees, and powering our hovercars with diesel generated by giant vats of waste-processing bacterias. That is until the machines take over and put us all out of our misery.

DOOOOOM!
 
Sounds disgusting! GM crops and now Petri dish bacon, what's next I wonder, cloned lamb? ......................................... oh wait!:eek:
 
dangerstat said:
Erm not to poo on your mates ideas, but don't we share tonnes of common genetic makeup with pigs. So are we "dirty animals" too:confused:
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It's religion. Why would it make any sense? It's simply an order to be obeyed, without any thought involved. You can backform rational explanations (e.g. before modern preservation technology such as freezing, pig meat was more likely to cause serious food poisoning than some other meat), but those are backformed explanations attempting to impose rationality on an innately irrational thing.
 
Mark A said:
I wouldn't have thought so. It depends what this synthetic solution to grow the meat they come up with is. It could cost as much to produce as real meat.
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At the moment, it costs vastly more. Thousands of times as much. Also, it's grey, close to tasteless and has poor texture (yes, people have eaten it).

But if they fix those things and it becomes an affordable alternative, I'd eat it. It wouldn't have to be an exact match for meat - I cheerfully eat Quorn now - as long as it was palatable enough.
 
Ahleckz said:
Because a purely vegetarian diet isn't sustainable for our current lifestyle. We'd have to eat for something like 18 hours a day. We require meat.
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No, we don't.

You'd be right for a nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe. People living that way do require meat and would do even if they ate 18 hours a day. Humans simply aren't herbivores.

But humans are omnivores and in a modern urbanised society with easy access to a wide variety of edible plants, we can sustain our current lifestyle on a purely vegetarian diet as long as we take B12 supplements (which are a waste product of some types of bacteria, so they're vegetarian enough). If you know what you're doing and have access to enough variety of plants, you can be fine on the usual ~3 meals per day on a purely vegetarian diet, as long as you take those B12 tablets (there are no vegetable sources of B12 usable by humans). But you really do need to know what you're doing, in order to get enough of all the essential amino acids and the nutrients that most plants are weak sources of (e.g. calcium, iron, etc).
 
Seems like a good idea to me.


The race is now on, place your bets. What will come first:
1) Cloned mammoth burger
2) Synthetic meat burger

And which will taste better?
 
If it can replicate indefinitely, it means its been homogenised with cancer cells. Would I eat that? No thanks.
 
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