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Lab-grown meat 'needed to feed the world'
Peta's going to just LOVE this!The first 'test-tube' hamburger is only a year away, scientists claim. They believe the product, beef mince grown from stem cells, could pave the way for eating meat without animals being slaughtered. The Dutch scientists predict that over the next few decades the world's population will increase so quickly that there will not be enough livestock to feed everyone. So what is the fertility rate of Europe these days? The scientists are currently developing a burger which will be grown from 10,000 stem cells extracted from cattle, which are then left in the lab to multiply more than a billion times to produce muscle tissue similar to beef. Similar - but not exactly? My guess it will taste, and look like crap - or chicken. He told Scientific American magazine that he thought the first burger could be made within 12 months. In 2009 scientists from the same university grew strips of pork using the same method. They admitted it was not particularly appetising, being grey with a similar texture to calamari. Fish fillets have been grown in a New York laboratory using cells taken from goldfish muscle tissue. Any guesses what those Scientists swallowed during college? Even if the initial results do not taste quite the same as proper meat, scientists are convinced the public will soon get used to it, especially if they Any guesses if Al-Gore and company are backing this? How soon will the raising of cattle be severely restricted - to control CO2 emissions from cow I have no doubt we will have a large group of people who don't have any problems with killing an unborn human fetus getting all uptight about eating 'in-vitro' meat. Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-06-27 |
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