Comments on: Laboratory grown meat could be just around the corner

By: fly*

fly* — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:27:32 +0000

suddenly peas never looked so good….. :o)

By: Jam

Jam — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:15:43 +0000

I’m becoming confused about what is alive and what is dead…and what is not quite alive and not quite dead. For some reason, this starts to remind me of the Matrix…I think I’d rather stick to my real green things grown in good old fashioned soil.

By: Jenster

Jenster — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:29:52 +0000

I'm reading Margaret Atwood's 'Oryx & Crake' at the moment - and there was a horrible synergy between this news article and one of the ideas contained within the book. The book details a world in which progress has marched from here to a world in which all genetic material is mouldable - where chickens are no longer sentient beings but lumps of protein growing in a laboratory - to be made into 'ChickieNobs' and sold as a 'Bucket O'Nubbins'. It also seems obvious that artificially growing protein isn't a way of solving world hunger - but supporting local farming communities to enable them to grow produce with which they can feed themselves.

By: Quiddity

Quiddity — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 22:34:05 +0000

I find this concept utterly repulsive but find it hard to justify why. I just feel that all the money spent on such products should be spent developing more efficient and humane farming techniques. we need to be getting our food from natural sources not fucking it up more than we already have done. I’m even squeamish about synthetic veggie products like quorn.

By: nathan

nathan — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:53:59 +0000

i prefer to chase my food down and, in as bloody and stabbing a rage as possible, snap its little body in two before sinking my sawing teeth through feather, fur and flesh.

if you didn’t taste the heart while it was still beating, you haven’t lived.

no but even more seriously, this is not good news. this is disturbing. if you’re veggie, be veggie, don’t look for alternatives to natural products in a test tube.