Cube Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 (edited) http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/13/4325916/in-vitro-burger-dr-mark-post-artificial-cultured-meat So, a burger will soon go on sale in London for the ridiculous price of €250,000. It is made from clones stem cells of a cow which is then turned into muscle cells, creating a burger which is all meat and has no fat in it. Let's say that this technology gets much more efficient and cheaper, so that clone burgers cost no more or less than current burgers. Would you eat the cloned burgers or would it freaked out? On top of this, if you are currently vegetarian/vegan due to the treatment of animals, would you eat this burger as no animals were harmed? Personally, I'd be more than willing to eat clone burgers. Anything that gets us closer to the replicators in Star Trek is a great thing. Edited May 13, 2013 by Cube
Jonnas Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 It depends on how it tastes, or if it has any unusual side-effects. I have absolutely no issue in eating cloned meat beyond external factors (such as price).
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 No fat and no animals harmed, sounds great to me! Now we just need to get the price down.
Daft Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 I'm all for it if it means cheaper, better meat with less cost to the environment. I wonder if we could combine this with 3D printing somehow. Sooooon.
bob Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 I currently eat a fair amount of Quorn, due to my girlfriend fiance being a vegetarian, and it being cheaper than meat. (Also in most meals, it tastes just as good as mince). Quorn is made from microbial biomass, which is a filamentous fungus which is grown in a fermenter and then sold as food. So yeah, seeing as i am currently happy eating mould, i think cloned animal cells would be perfectly fine.
Shorty Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 haa, "repudiators". press button, machine refuses to be associated with you I would totally eat one of these although I expect it inevitably to lead to a zombie apocalypse.
Rummy Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 Yeah I'd have no problem; I still have a strange skepticism/stigma with all 'omg GM stuff in our bodies omg omg' but we mess with so much other shit it isn't really a big deal. Maybe if I didn't know either way? I don't like to think too hard hwere my food actually comes from anyway.
Ville Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 (edited) Sounds like a great idea. Especially considering the fact that some people's digestive systems are more suited to handling meat than for example beans / lentils / nuts etc. Edited May 13, 2013 by Ville
MoogleViper Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 I'd personally wait a few years. See if people started developing second heads. If they don't, then I'm not gonna bother.
Mokong Posted May 15, 2013 Posted May 15, 2013 No, when I eat meat I wanna know it used to be a living animal before it became my food, the fear the cow feels before death is what helps flavour its meat! In serious if price wasn't a factor and it tasted the same (or better) then why not?
Jim Posted May 15, 2013 Posted May 15, 2013 How long until real meat becomes the rare, more expensive of the two.. :P
arab_freak Posted May 16, 2013 Posted May 16, 2013 If the patty's lacking in fat then it's lacking in flavor.
Iun Posted May 16, 2013 Posted May 16, 2013 Calling it a "stem cell burger" makes it seem ultra unappealing, like the meat will be ... crunchy? However: Fowl Unfertilised Ovulations - Eggs Coagulated Bovine Plasma - Black Pudding hmm... there might (not) be a market for gross-out names of rather delicious dishes.
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