HadassahSukkot
15th April 2008, 01:56 PM
Ok, so my dad sends me an email and I think "this has to be something Sci-fi, there's no way this can be for real..." until I remembered all about the newer developments in Genetically Modified Foods and the new labelling laws that are allowing them to do a lot of things to food items without telling people...
Anyway...
Here two links about it:
...In five years, you'll be eating a hamburger that no animal died for. Instead, that burger will have been grown from a tiny sample of cells in a plant-and-mushroom bath. The cow who donated the cells will be frolicking in a meadow somewhere, having long forgotten the annoying poke from a tissue engineer with a syringe.
...This meeting, the first of its kind, signaled the beginning of a viable industry around the production of vat-grown meat....
Tissue Engineering: Vat-Grown Meat about to hit your Supermarket (http://io9.com/379280/vat+grown-meat-about-to-hit-your-local-market)
...The group noted that costs for research, large-scale testing, and public relations will be significant, and anticipated that governments and nonprofit groups would chip in. That seems idealistic, at best, in a world with deeply entrenched interests (http://www.beef.org/) linking ranching, the agrochemical industry, and giant restaurant chains. But one could envision someday a model, say, of a solar-powered facility in southern California or Singapore basically turning sunlight and desalinated seawater into growth medium and then tons of cruelty-free, sustainable nuggets of chicken essence. (The promoters of this technology don’t envision anything, for now at least, beyond nuggets and ground meat. No filet mignon.)
For the moment, startup costs aside, the conferees concluded that unsubsidized chicken-raising still comes in at half the price. But the century is yet young....
and an article with The Telegraph: Can People have Meat and a Planet, Too? (http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/can-people-have-meat-and-a-planet-too/)
Who the backers are:
The In Vitro Meat Consortium (http://invitromeat.org/content/view/14/29/) and New Harvest: Advancing Meat Substitutes (http://new-harvest.org/default.php)
All I can think other than obvious cues from "Soylent Green" and other freakish movies... :sorry: is that this certainly cannot be kosher, and really flies in the face of a lot of things in Scripture (Say, mixing animal product with vegetable product like one shouldn't with wool and flax/cotton).. and I can't even begin to imagine what this would do to one's body, if they could handle it. eww. :sick:
Color me squicked.
Anyway...
Here two links about it:
...In five years, you'll be eating a hamburger that no animal died for. Instead, that burger will have been grown from a tiny sample of cells in a plant-and-mushroom bath. The cow who donated the cells will be frolicking in a meadow somewhere, having long forgotten the annoying poke from a tissue engineer with a syringe.
...This meeting, the first of its kind, signaled the beginning of a viable industry around the production of vat-grown meat....
Tissue Engineering: Vat-Grown Meat about to hit your Supermarket (http://io9.com/379280/vat+grown-meat-about-to-hit-your-local-market)
...The group noted that costs for research, large-scale testing, and public relations will be significant, and anticipated that governments and nonprofit groups would chip in. That seems idealistic, at best, in a world with deeply entrenched interests (http://www.beef.org/) linking ranching, the agrochemical industry, and giant restaurant chains. But one could envision someday a model, say, of a solar-powered facility in southern California or Singapore basically turning sunlight and desalinated seawater into growth medium and then tons of cruelty-free, sustainable nuggets of chicken essence. (The promoters of this technology don’t envision anything, for now at least, beyond nuggets and ground meat. No filet mignon.)
For the moment, startup costs aside, the conferees concluded that unsubsidized chicken-raising still comes in at half the price. But the century is yet young....
and an article with The Telegraph: Can People have Meat and a Planet, Too? (http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/can-people-have-meat-and-a-planet-too/)
Who the backers are:
The In Vitro Meat Consortium (http://invitromeat.org/content/view/14/29/) and New Harvest: Advancing Meat Substitutes (http://new-harvest.org/default.php)
All I can think other than obvious cues from "Soylent Green" and other freakish movies... :sorry: is that this certainly cannot be kosher, and really flies in the face of a lot of things in Scripture (Say, mixing animal product with vegetable product like one shouldn't with wool and flax/cotton).. and I can't even begin to imagine what this would do to one's body, if they could handle it. eww. :sick:
Color me squicked.