frannyo 2 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Fancy some? What is it? Animal tissue grown in the lab. Scientists are experimenting with ways of creating an edible product with the taste and texture of beef or chicken - without killing any cattle or chickens. Single muscle cells are extracted from an animal, multiplied in the lab and attached to a sponge-like scaffold to hold them together. The scaffold can then be harvested as boneless, processed meat. Apparently it might actually be good for you. Nutrients in the meat could be controlled and fatty acids that cause high colesterol and other health problems could be replaced with nourishing alternatives. Yummy. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Damn!!! That shit is just downright weird! I guess we should be expecting that kind of thing to pop up more and more though eh! I wonder if they'll ever develop ready-made salamis... Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I'm sure I tons of that at 3am on Sunday mornings back when I was a drunk student.... they called it "kebabs" back then. Link to post Share on other sites
ncorrenti 0 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Can't be any worse than sausage meat. I'd give it a go. Link to post Share on other sites
Flash 0 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 nicole - you mean sausage 'meat'? Link to post Share on other sites
ncorrenti 0 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Hehe yes, AKA "mystery meat". Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 I had a kebab once and it was one of the most disgusting things I have ever eaten. Well apart from some spam like horror or bad sausages. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Ah c'moooooonnn.... How can you not like the old kebab??? Link to post Share on other sites
Oyuki kigan 0 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 or you could just be a vegetarian. The chinese have been making fake meats that are tolorably close to the real thing for a LONG ime, without playing god. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 tolerably close??? Admittedly I haven't been to China, so I can only comment on what I have had in Aus, but I haven't tasted any that I would have rated "tolerable". Besides, why would I want to "tolerate" something when I can have a perfectly delicious real slab of meat? If God had wanted us to be vegetarians then plants would have been made out of meat! Link to post Share on other sites
Oyuki kigan 0 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 You haven`t had the sweet and sour gluten `pork` or the lemon `yuba` chicken from the Bo Kong in Vancouver then. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 No I haven't. Not saying I wouldn't like it, but to date I haven't found any substitute that I enjoy even remotely as much as real meat. Link to post Share on other sites
js 0 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Vitro meat AKA McShite burgers, etc - NO WAY! Only REAL meat does the trick for me – from a farming background where touchy-feely, live and let live attitudes mean bugger all. Best remembered meals: eating wild quack that my Uncle shot, knocking the heads off home reared chooks (completely unlike those shop bought chemical/hormone/drug force-fed ones that taste like cardboard.) Best memory: on a trip several years ago in the Strzelecki Desert we met some stockmen who were camped whilst herding cattle in for branding and transport. They’d just butchered a beast, salted it down and stored it in the shade of some river gums on a tarpaulin covered with gum leaves to keep the flies at bay. The Manager advised a roustabout to give us some of the meat because we were out for some weeks – the stockman handed me a cardboard box dripping with blood – looking inside was the whole arse of the cow (the WHOLE rump – both cheeks!), we put it in a calico bag and over the following four days consumed the lot – that was the tastiest, leanest and most succulent meat I’ve ever had … Graded FD for F***ing Delicious! Link to post Share on other sites
ncorrenti 0 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Real shmeal. If it looks like meat, tastes like meat, smells like meat, how is it any less real? It beats killing an animal. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 True, but there is a very big IF there. The idea of "growing" a muscle from stem cells or whatever is just a weird one to think about. Link to post Share on other sites
ncorrenti 0 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Yeah but lots of naturally occuring things in the world are bizarre and weird... more so than some things created in a lab! Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 No argument there either. Link to post Share on other sites
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