The 'test tube' burger

[ShaunSA]

I've got some baaaaaad news for you, all women are prostitutes. You pay one way or the other!

Well then it's a good thing I'm not into women

 

[HapticSimian]

When you can construct a proper sentence.

*ducks*

It were done for effect.

 

[noxibox]

No thanks, nothing will ever come close to a rare steak.

The problem with lab meat is that there is going to be no texture.No movement = No muscle tissue development = mushy vienna meat.

That's part of the research into growing meat in a lab. It is almost certainly the future.

 

[Sherbang]

Interesting, this burger was funded by Sergey Brin, Google co-founder.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/aug/05/google-sergey-brin-test-tube-burger

If Sergey Brin didn't exist, it might be beyond the wit of anyone to invent him. He turns 40 on the 21st of this month, and can now add his role as the funder of the new €250,000 (£216,000) "test-tube burger" to a host of other wild science-fiction ideas that are turning into fact - including investing in asteroid mining, personal genome analysis and electric cars.

And that's before you mention his role as the billionaire co-founder (with university friend Larry Page) of internet search giant Google, where he's also helped make the phone software Android one of the planet's most-used operating systems in just five years.

 

[Crowley]

Proof?

False. McDonald's beef patties are 100% pure beef...or are they?

Yes, they are.

Just like kfc is not chicken?

But is meat flavored cardboard still considered meat?

 

[satanboy]

.... ‘test tube’ burger has been grown in a lab using the stem cells of a slaughtered cow.

Great! I hope it tastes good, has no dodgy side effects, and is nutritious. Then I fully support the initiative. Will ease the guilt I feel if I can eat this instead of a cow.

No, it still had to die.

 

[Sherbang]

No, it still had to die.

"Cows are very inefficient, they require 100g of vegetable protein to produce only 15g of edible animal protein," Post told the Guardian. "So we need to feed the cows a lot so that we can feed ourselves. We lose a lot of food that way. [With cultured meat] we can make it more efficient because we have all the variables under control. We don't need to kill the cow and it doesn't [produce] any methane."

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/05/first-hamburger-lab-grown-meat-press-conference

There are important ethical reasons why we should replace animal meat with in vitro meat, if we can do it at reasonable cost. The first is to reduce animal suffering. Just as the cruelty inflicted on working horses, so movingly depicted in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, was eventually eliminated by the efficiency of the internal combustion engine, so the vastly greater quantity of suffering that is inflicted on tens of billions of animals in today's factory farms could be eliminated by a more efficient way of producing meat.

You would have to have a heart of stone not to applaud such an outcome. But it needn't be simply an emotional response. Among philosophers who discuss the ethics of our treatment of animals there is a remarkable degree of consensus that factory farming violates basic ethical principles that extend beyond the boundary of our own species. Even a staunch conservative such as Roger Scruton, who vigorously defended hunting foxes with hounds, has written that a true morality of animal welfare ought to begin from the premise that factory farming is wrong.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/05/worlds-first-cruelty-free-hamburger

So yes Pooky, you can eat this guilt free!