Anybody up for some test tube burgers?

[sbsg2005]

And I thought genetically modified veggies were bad. This crap can't be any better. Test tube hamburgers to be served this year - Telegraph This is not how I how want to survive in the future.

 

[MACHINEGUN]

I think not, never ever!

 

[pmorriso]

I'll take one with artificial bacon and cheese!

 

[Phase2]

I'm open to this. Real meat cells cultured in a way that does't involve killing millions of animals per year. My concerns are more technical in nature:

How do they build muscle tone without exercise?
How do they feed it as it grows without a circulatory system?
What are the disease/taste/texture issues?

This also might make rarer/more expensive meats much easier to produce.

 

[Kmcinnes]

I thought we already do.....isnt that what McDonalds does?

 

[sbsg2005]

This also might make rarer/more expensive meats much easier to produce.

I doubt it since anything more than a thin strip will require and artificial circulatory system to feed the tissue it would more than likely make them rarer and even more expensive.

To me meat needs to come from a farm not some beaker in a lab full of t-cells, amniotic fluid, and broth and god only knows what other chemicals.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Anybody up for some test tube burgers?

Just to show why one should be awake before thinking (I was up til 0500 and just rolled out about 15 minutes ago--not really awake yet), I though you said 'test tube BURGLARS' and was about to say OK as long as there is an open season!