A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but now the prospect of lab-grown meat appearing on our supermarket shelves is closer than ever.
Synthetic or test-tube meat involves taking a small amount of cells from a living animal and growing it into lumps of muscle tissue, which can then, in theory, be eaten as meat for human consumption.
As well avoiding killing animals, scientists believe it could help reduce the environmental impact of meat production.
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Test tube meat - Yummmm!
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Test tube meat - Yummmm!
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Christine.
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You can't get something from nothing. What do they plan to use as feedstock for growing the meat -- thin air? LOL.As well avoiding killing animals, scientists believe it could help reduce the environmental impact of meat production.
That sounds a lot like using corn to produce Ethanol. Now about 40% of our corn crop goes to gasoline production. Fuel is just as high as ever, and now food prices are much higher.
(Yep, you can't get something from nothing).Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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MaggieRedwings
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