So that's where Jade is getting his fake sausage from. And at first I thought it was soy or tofu. ;)
What.
Well, good news for the protien-starved masses. Bad news for animal husbanders. Also will raise the price of 'natural' meat when it comes out, as farms stop producing animals.
Hmm, barnyard animals would probably get much much scarcer as well, but their individual lives will improve since there wouldn't be a need for 'factory farming'.
Wonder if they could make any type of meat in mass production? Like you could have a roast of lark's tongue or mouse hamburgers or something like that. What were some of those delicacies back in the day?
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Foie gras?
Hey, you could grow turducken all at once. What's the turducken equivalent of pork and bacon products?
Hmm...I'm having flashbacks..or is that flashforwards of Shadowrun.
Well. As long as there is coffee or soykaf I'll deal with it!
*Finishes reading* Oh thank all the Gods of Golarion...its not all soy-based!
Otherwise I was going to start preparing for the Great Ghost Dance to happen.
Ah! But is meat grown in a vat under sterile conditions as a boneless slab actually 'human' flesh? What if people got a taste for it?
Weird moral question ... Cannibalism or no? And for that matter, would vat pork be kosher? It has no hooves or ruminations ...
Hmm...I'm having flashbacks..or is that flashforwards of Shadowrun.
Well. As long as there is coffee or soykaf I'll deal with it!
*Finishes reading* Oh thank all the Gods of Golarion...its not all soy-based!
Otherwise I was going to start preparing for the Great Ghost Dance to happen.
If we're going the Shadowrun route, then the heck with soykaf. I'll take the level III Synaptic Booster and an Adrenal Pump. I'd never need caffeine again.
Hey, you could grow turducken all at once. What's the turducken equivalent of pork and bacon products?This.
O M G ! I MUST make that! And have an angioplasty team on standby.
Begun, the clone smorgasbord buffett has.
Stephen Colbert did a piece on the Scandanavian meat-growing research. Funny thing was, the researcher being interviewed said the meat tasted like crap. (Only the word he used, they had to bleep out. Colbert suggested they use that as a marketing angle and call it Shmeat.)
I notice this one doesn't say anything outright about the taste, but since they're talking about using it for ground products, like sausage, I'm guessing the quality isn't very high.
I wouldn't count animal husbandry out just yet. In order for that to happen, people have to want to eat vat-grown meat. The researchers can't do that; it'll be up to the marketing department.
My boys are perfect just the way they are!
Yeah, but not all of us have a human-sized deep fat fryer to help with the flavor.Hooray for science!
Now, when are they going to start growing human meat in vats for consumption. Killing them in the wild is okay, but the meat's always gamey.
Speak for yourself!
You're a lawyer. If I draw up a working sketch, we can get it patented... millionaires in the post-cannibal cuisine era!
One issue however. The cell culture conditions require a certain level of supplementation, almost always coming in the form of something called FBS (fetal bovine serum). And guess where you get that from?
You'd need to find another way of producing the complex nutrients needed for in-vitro muscle culture before you removed actual animal husbandry from the loop. It's possible of course.
One issue however. The cell culture conditions require a certain level of supplementation, almost always coming in the form of something called FBS (fetal bovine serum). And guess where you get that from?
Hmm, Italian restaurants? :P No, as it stands it has to come from farm sources sure. But it wouldn't be economically viable if they didn't figure out a way to grow the meat slabs cheaply.
You'd need to find another way of producing the complex nutrients needed for in-vitro muscle culture before you removed actual animal husbandry from the loop. It's possible of course.
Oh yah, no easy way now to do it, but if they managed to make a protien slab that fed on algae or something similar, that would be a godsend to certain nations. That and cutting methane emmissions (funny thing about the methane that is increasing in our atmosphere: A good chunk of it of it is ruminant farts :)