Test-Tube Burgers - The Question of Artificial Meat

[DJ Droood]

If the issue was really about feeding the global population then a solution already exists: Fusarium venenatum (Quorn)?

mmm...can you grow your own easily? I agree, this isn't an experiment to feed the world...world hunger isn't being caused by lack of ground round...and I think Duelist is right that it is probably pure science, just because, but if there is a market...

Where I live, and I'm sure it is the same all over, there are these regional "bargain" stores...step up from a dollar store, but not as swank as Walmart...and they sell everything from shoes to toys to groceries...all low cost stuff..and they sell frozen "meat lasagna" and "meat lovers" pizza, and canned stews and tubes of frozen hamburger, even these frozen steaks...I rank it slightly higher than dog food in quality....I can see some euphemistically named "meat twin" being used as the flesh ingredient in such food, sold to buyers who don't ask a lot of questions....hey, maybe even in pet food if it was absolutely the cheapest source of meat available, and not up to approved human consumption standards.

I think it will long be a badge of honour, though, for Mcdonald's and quality "meat lovers" pizza producers to say they use real, fear-seasoned flesh.

[Whitemane]

If the issue was really about feeding the global population then a solution already exists: Fusarium venenatum (Quorn)?

mmm...can you grow your own easily?

Growing it is the easy part. Anybody who makes their own beer or fermented foods could do it. The hard part is the processing to a nutritious product. Some fermenting fungi can just be dried and eaten like chips. Try that with Fusarium and it's nasty.

[cat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_dish

so a factory grown meat product made from stem cells.
hum and where do these come from?
are they just going to clone? what about mutation (im not talking killer alien burgers here )

1 Factory to gain optimal growth there will have to be temperature regulation. Co2 output

Petri dishes are filled with a nutrient of some sort to 'feed the growing stuff on it'
so what nutrient is being used and where does it come from?

I can just see the factory's springing up in parts of arid Africa too make this stuff. can you see the problem.

I hate to say it i think the human race is too successful and cannot sustain itself in the manner that we are accustomed.

still the astronauts may find it useful on the way to Mars.

[Whitemane]

I'm surprised that nobody has come out with "Soylent Green is people!" yet.