View Full Version : Would you eat lab grown meat?
Strong
03-12-2009, 01:28 PM
Scientists have managed to grow a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time, according to reports.
Researchers in the Netherlands created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day want to eat it.
No one has yet tasted their produce, but it is believed the artificial meat could be on sale within five years.
Article: Telegraph - Meat grown in laboratory in world first (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6680989/Meat-grown-in-laboratory-in-world-first.html)
So what do you think about this new innovation and would you be willing to eat it?
tsdesigns
03-12-2009, 01:51 PM
I'd give it a go. Can't say anything bad about it till i've tried it!
Strong
03-12-2009, 01:53 PM
So you up for some bush tucker then?
tsdesigns
03-12-2009, 01:54 PM
yeah, why not?
I'm sure the worst of it is actually knowing what your about to eat. The taste probably isn't that bad.
Sami4u
03-12-2009, 01:55 PM
Hi,
I'll try any food once. Sure why not.
Sami
Ferre
03-12-2009, 02:02 PM
I'll be watching at the sideline for a few years, see what happens to those who do eat it first.
:sqwink:
CountryBoy
03-12-2009, 02:47 PM
Absolutely I would.
Yes, if I wanted to perish in hell.
Muddy
03-12-2009, 07:10 PM
Would you eat meat grown in a lab?
A chocolate, yellow, or black lab?
All shall suffer a hellish fate that partake in the vile sorcery.
Yes, I would try it.
I wonder if there's any marbling.
vectro
03-12-2009, 10:02 PM
I'll be watching at the sideline for a few years, see what happens to those who do eat it first.
:sqwink:
No one will know the long-term affects until ts, Sami and CountryBoy eat it for a few years.
tsdesigns
03-12-2009, 10:38 PM
No one will know the long-term affects until ts, Sami and CountryBoy eat it for a few years.
If they'd pay me to be a test subject for it i'd be up for it.
iowadawg
03-12-2009, 11:11 PM
Well, Star Trek had their little machines that popped out any food they wanted.
And no one died from the food.
So why not the rest of us?
I wait for the day I have my own replicator.
Think of it, steak all the time!
No more going to the grocery store.
No more stale food.
No more spoilt milk and yogurt.
iowadawg
03-12-2009, 11:12 PM
Just to skew the results a bit, I voted for the fence.
Sami4u
04-12-2009, 04:19 AM
No one will know the long-term affects until ts, Sami and CountryBoy eat it for a few years.
Hi,
Years. What do you mean years. I said I would try it. I have to like it before I do it a second time.
Sami
Strong
04-12-2009, 05:45 AM
A chocolate, yellow, or black lab?
Not dog, research establishment! :sqrofl:
Muddy
04-12-2009, 09:10 AM
I see. Because if it was a dog, I should think it would make a great deal of difference what color. I for one would prefer a chocolate lab.
It would be interesting to hear the reasons why people who vote no would not eat it. I think I already know why Strongy voted no.
Strong
04-12-2009, 11:19 AM
Yes, that would be interesting Atom.
Most people that know me, know that I have no ideological reason for not eating meat. It is more a taste aversion, meat makes me sick, literally. Therefore, lab (not dog) grown meat, I suspect, would have the same effect.
artagnan
04-12-2009, 03:16 PM
It really depends on the taste of that meat...
Sami4u
04-12-2009, 03:30 PM
It really depends on the taste of that meat...
Hi,
Probably tastes like chicken. LOL
Sami
Strong
05-12-2009, 05:23 AM
It really depends on the taste of that meat...
The only way to truly know what it tastes like, would be to eat it.
I could not in all honesty answer no to this question.
It would be interesting to hear the reasoning of those who answered no.
vectro
06-12-2009, 02:00 AM
No because like I said, you never know the long term effects from the start.
Brian
06-12-2009, 02:03 AM
Yeah, I'm not particularly sure I want to find out in 20 years that it's gonna give me cancer.
No because like I said, you never know the long term effects from the start.Yes well would you eat it long term wasn't the question. Surely you're not referring to possible long term effects from eating it once.
ewomack
06-12-2009, 11:55 AM
Ummmm... will it kill me?
ewomack
06-12-2009, 11:57 AM
And what went into making it? How was it grown?
Strong
06-12-2009, 12:06 PM
The article gives some clues. Apparently it is real muscle tissue.
Sami4u
06-12-2009, 11:09 PM
The article gives some clues. Apparently it is real muscle tissue.
Hi,
If they grow muscle tissue you could it be put to better use. Like for people with MDA.
Sami
Strong
07-12-2009, 07:38 AM
Research into that type of work is going on, I have heard of organs and skin being grown. We are not far from this technology being a viable treatment.
tsdesigns
07-12-2009, 12:03 PM
Hi,
If they grow muscle tissue you could it be put to better use. Like for people with MDA.
Sami
True. Thats probably where the research is going.
Research into that type of work is going on, I have heard of organs and skin being grown. We are not far from this technology being a viable treatment.
I don't know, they'd have to pretty much perfect the technology before using it in medicine for the general public (i.e. not test cases). I doubt that'd happen for a long time yet.
Sami4u
08-12-2009, 05:02 AM
Hi,
Wasn't there something about growing an ear on a rats back?
Just thought of that.
Don't have time to google it to sleepy.
Sami
tsdesigns
08-12-2009, 08:08 AM
Hi,
Wasn't there something about growing an ear on a rats back?
Just thought of that.
Don't have time to google it to sleepy.
Sami
I don't know if it was growing or if it was just grafting it on...but yes I remember something like that.
vectro
08-12-2009, 12:35 PM
Yes well would you eat it long term wasn't the question. Surely you're not referring to possible long term effects from eating it once.
No, I mean I would wait 5 maybe 10 years and see if people who ate it ended up with any health problems. Anyway, I'm more of a fan of community farms and backyard farming. If everyone got involved in that they can grow good old organic veggies and solve some food problems.
Hi,
Wasn't there something about growing an ear on a rats back?
Just thought of that.
Don't have time to google it to sleepy.
Sami
Mouse with Human Ear In Depth (ABC Science) (http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/06/02/1644154.htm)
"A "genetically engineered mouse" would have to have its DNA (its genetic "blueprint") modified. The Turning Point propaganda implied that some DNA from a human (the section that has the blueprint for making the human ear) had been inserted into the DNA of the mouse. Then, this human DNA had somehow taken over the mouse DNA, and commanded it to grow a human ear. But it never happened - the mouse in the famous photo had never been genetically engineered.
After 8 years, Charle's team got to the stage where they could mould their sterile biodegradable mesh into the exact shape of a 3 year-old's ear. The next step was to seed this ear-shaped scaffold with cartilage cells from the knee of a cow (remember how I said that the famous mouse-ear had absolutely no human cartilage cells in it). The team used a Nude Mouse. The Nude Mouse got its name thanks to a random mutation in the 1960s that left the mouse with no hair, and virtually no immune system. The lack of hair was irrelevant to their project, but the lack of immune system was critical. It meant that the mouse would not reject the foreign cow cartilage cells. The only purpose of the mouse in this project was to supply power to let the cow cartilage cells grow. The cartilaginous ear was implanted under the skin layer of the mouse, but over the muscle layer. Over some three months, the mouse grew extra blood vessels that nourished the cow cartilage cells, that then grew and infiltrated into the biodegradable scaffolding (which had the shape of a human ear). By the time that the scaffolding had dissolved away, the cartilage had enough structural integrity to support itself.
That cartilaginous structure that looked like a human ear was never transplanted onto a human, because it was full of cow cells and would have been rejected by a person's immune system.
But the same Tissue Technology was used for 12 year-old Sean G. McCormack, who was born with Poland's Syndrome. He had absolutely no bone or cartilage on his left chest. His heart and lungs were protected only by skin. This was a problem everyday, and especially in his beloved sport of baseball in which he was a star pitcher - because a single ball to the chest could kill him. The Vacanti brothers used McCormack's own cartilage cells to grow a "chest plate", the size of a CD, on their synthetic biodegradable polymer, that was moulded to the shape of his chest. They implanted the seeded cartilage in his chest, and it grew with him.
But like the mouse with the "human" ear, there was absolutely no genetic engineering involved - only genuine scientific invention…"
Sami4u
09-12-2009, 01:27 AM
Hi,
Not to change the subject but on the same lines. I was thinking how much from star trek has came to life. People are now walking with things in their ear. We have stung guns.
Wouldn't it be nice to wave a device over a person and they would be healed.
Do you think that will ever happen?
Sami
No, I mean I would wait 5 maybe 10 years and see if people who ate it ended up with any health problems. (...)I see. I guess I took the question "would you eat it?" at face value. I figured that it was unlikely to mean 'would you eat it regularly?', because of course one couldn't know that until it was tried at least once first.
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