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by Katharine Watts
When you sit down to eat a steak in the future, it may be one that's paid for by PETA.
Well, the research that was used to develop it will be.
Biological engineer Nicholas Genovese, who's being supported (and funded) by the animal rights group, along with fellow researcher Dr. Vladimir Mironov – who's spent the last 10 years trying to create lab based meat – is finding a way to grow the muscle tissue of animals in vitro.
Test tube meat may not sound appetizing, but it's actually similar to other processes of food production. "There are many products that we've eaten for centuries, such as beer and bread, and these are accepted, traditional products of biotechnology and this is taking this to the next step," Dr. Genovese told ABC News 4.
In vitro meat also has the potential to cut out the greenhouse gas emissions created by livestock, eliminate the ill treatment and suffering of animals and ensure the food we're consuming isn't injected with growth hormones and antibiotics. In short, it's a sustainable way to continue producing meat.
"In my mind, meat consumption is here to stay, and if you want to do that at a higher efficiency than what is currently done by cows and pigs, you have to explore the possibility of doing that in the lab," Dr. Mark Post, the head of the physiology department at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, told ABC news.
But will it taste the same?
Essentially, it's the same thing. "Skeletal muscle fibers, we put them together, they fuse ... this is the main element of any meat," said Mironov.
If it tastes the same and looks the same, without all the negative impacts associated with regular meat consumption, it could just be the food of the future.
What do you think? Is the development of in vitro meat a positive thing? If it became available, would you eat it?
I think I will stick to the real thing(s); sometimes I wanna sink my teeth into BBR , others nice smoked chicken wings would do the trick and there are time when a whole brisket or butt that would not fulfill the urge. I bet in the why discribed, they will all tatse VITRO.
Hady
"It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people."
I would need more info before i could make that decision.
Simple for me. If PETA is involved I won't touch it under any circumstances. I have no use for that group. Like a lot of other organizations they started out with a good idea and then went freakin' crazy.
My apologies if I offend some with my remarks. It is solely my opinion.
Have no time for idiots, you just can't fix stupid...