Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Not Food

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6936352.ece
SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish.

The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing to eat it.

3 comments:

  1. So now we can have fake ham with our fake cheese? all we need is fake bread and farmers become obsolete.DWCovert

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  2. The way things are going folks will not have a choice - eat the fake meat or no meat - nobody can afford to produce much of anything at the prices we're getting now.

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