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Scientists just made the first test tube burger and a couple people got to eat it. Right now, it's fat free and has an odd texture, but it is an interesting look into a possible future.

Cows are very hard on the environment, take up a lot of room and produce shit loads of methane, perhaps this is the future. Not yet, at over 300K per burger it's not going to be on the dollar menu anytime soon. But technology like this does seem to progress fast, especially if there is an industrial use for it. I wouldn't be surprised to see TT burgers that taste identical to cow burgers at a very affordable cost in 10-15 years.

Would you try one now? Would you eat them once they get the kinks worked out and they taste identical? Would you prefer a TT burger or a Cow burger if they were identical in every way (taste, texture, cost)?

http://news.yahoo.com/first-reaction-lab-made-burger-134553131.html
 
Well, frankly, watching this makes me crave a veggie burger!
 
I guess it would be a good thing, I do think raising livestock is a waste of land. I’m a big meat eater though. Something about this engineered meat does make me nervous though I like to have more natural whole foods when possible and you can’t really get more processed than coming from a test tube. But maybe whole foods isn’t realistic for 7 billion people.
 
Draco said:
I guess it would be a good thing, I do think raising livestock is a waste of land. I’m a big meat eater though. Something about this engineered meat does make me nervous though I like to have more natural whole foods when possible and you can’t really get more processed than coming from a test tube. But maybe whole foods isn’t realistic for 7 billion people.
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I think you have been tricked by the grocery chain. "Whole" does not necessarily mean healthy or organic. It could mean unprocessed though. But yeah, it is one step beyond Genetically modified.
 
Personally, I'm fine with it and would gobble it up. If the molecular makeup is the same, then it's the same regardless of origin. Do you really need a side of soul with that burger?

I'm not talking right now, it's just the birth of TTmeat, but once the kinks are worked out, chow time! Put it on a GMO bun with mustard and some TTcheese, and mmmm mmmmm, gooooood.
 
GOD said:
Personally, I'm fine with it and would gobble it up. If the molecular makeup is the same, then it's the same regardless of origin. Do you really need a side of soul with that burger?

I'm not talking right now, it's just the birth of TTmeat, but once the kinks are worked out, chow time! Put it on a GMO bun with mustard and some TTcheese, and mmmm mmmmm, gooooood.
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I feel the exact same way.

Some people do get an extra kick out of eating something knowing it was living and breathing with a brain and feelings.

I'd rather not contribute to inhumane treatment of animals, but goddamn do I love my meat.
 
VanillaGorilla said:
I feel the exact same way.

Some people do get an extra kick out of eating something knowing it was living and breathing with a brain and feelings.

I'd rather not contribute to inhumane treatment of animals, but goddamn do I love my meat.
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Yep, until the day that TTmeat is available, I'll enjoy a steak, but given the option I'll go with not keeping a cow in a pen all its life. Of course vegetarians may say that's an option now, but meat is just too awesome to substitute with tofu. For now, I have satisfied my morality by not eating human, dolphin or monkey (at least at the same time like a turducken). I will not eat a Hukeyphin.
 
GOD said:
Yep, until the day that TTmeat is available, I'll enjoy a steak, but given the option I'll go with not keeping a cow in a pen all its life. Of course vegetarians may say that's an option now, but meat is just too awesome to substitute with tofu. For now, I have satisfied my morality by not eating human, dolphin or monkey (at least at the same time like a turducken). I will not eat a Hukeyphin.
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Can you buy this anywhere? I've never tried it. Some country should start getting into that market for death row guys. "Eat a piece of a serial killer for $99!" I'd be ok with them selling me for food when I die! Serve myself up at my own funeral. And he lives on.
 
Draco said:
Can you buy this anywhere? I've never tried it. Some country should start getting into that market for death row guys. "Eat a piece of a serial killer for $99!" I'd be ok with them selling me for food when I die! Serve myself up at my own funeral. And he lives on.
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There was a story earlier this year from Japan, a chef cut off his unit, cooked it with mushrooms, and served it to five patrons. Talk about an appetizer, one dick five ways, and a Japanese dick to start with isn't much to fill the belly.


Ok, just searched and found the story. Guess it was cock and balls. link to a new kind of sashimi
 
It is a conundrum. Sure, we could all go vegetarian or vegan but it's just not likely to happen. I eat a lot of vegetarian and meat as accent rather than prime ingredient. And since I rarely buy beef I can splurge on grass fed, free range, organic, hormone/antibiotic free. But that doesn't solve the environmental greenhouse gas problem or the fact that raising cattle is about the least efficient way to produce food.
 
$325, 000 for one burger. And it tastes like a hockey puck.

GO SCIENCE! RAH! RAH!
 
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