Dr. Mark Post displayed samples of in-vitro meat at the University of Maastricht in 2011.
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Izzy☆☺☮✌♥✎
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This is really interesting. I didn't know that you were actually able to essentially recreate an animal in a lab. This means that we won't have to kill so many cows to eat burgers and everything else. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE animals, but c'mon, I LOVE meat, too. Honestly, this could change everything that we know about eating cows. Our whole environment could change because there might not be that many cows left unless we use them for milk, which is very important. But, the only bad thing about this how much the price is for a five-ounce burger. If we could make the quantity larger and the price smaller, this would be perfect. I would like to see maybe like a video on this. I think that growing meat that tastes like the actual animal is a very strange but interesting process. I would like to taste this stuff. I wonder what it would be like...would it taste like a burger you could get at IN-and-Out? Or would it be all weird and processed tasting? Who knows.
Wow! This is amazing. I knew from reading previous articles (in science magazines and things like that) that meat could be made in a laboratory, but I didn't realize that it would happen any time soon. I think that it's a great idea, it's just monumentally expensive to make one burger, much less hundreds of millions for supermarkets around the world. I completely agree with Izzy about the pluses of making meat in this type of humane way, though. Not as many cows would be killed to make burgers, which is a VERY good thing, considering how many cows are killed in a year (an estimated 150 million), and this new process could save millions of dollars (even though it would also waste millions), based on environmental problems from killing mass quantities of cattle. The idea of putting together tissue in a laboratory is sort of sickening, but if you think about the things that McDonald's puts in their meat, you realize that some tissue (especially REAL tissue) isn't all that bad. I love this idea, but because of the price of the burgers, I wouldn't want to try one until at least a year after their release. So, here's my conclusion: great product, great idea, great way to humanely make a great hamburger, bad price. That's really the only downside to this. I'm all for it. :-)
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This is really interesting. I didn't know that you were actually able to essentially recreate an animal in a lab. This means that we won't have to kill so many cows to eat burgers and everything else. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE animals, but c'mon, I LOVE meat, too. Honestly, this could change everything that we know about eating cows. Our whole environment could change because there might not be that many cows left unless we use them for milk, which is very important.
But, the only bad thing about this how much the price is for a five-ounce burger. If we could make the quantity larger and the price smaller, this would be perfect. I would like to see maybe like a video on this. I think that growing meat that tastes like the actual animal is a very strange but interesting process. I would like to taste this stuff. I wonder what it would be like...would it taste like a burger you could get at IN-and-Out? Or would it be all weird and processed tasting? Who knows.
Wow! This is amazing. I knew from reading previous articles (in science magazines and things like that) that meat could be made in a laboratory, but I didn't realize that it would happen any time soon. I think that it's a great idea, it's just monumentally expensive to make one burger, much less hundreds of millions for supermarkets around the world. I completely agree with Izzy about the pluses of making meat in this type of humane way, though. Not as many cows would be killed to make burgers, which is a VERY good thing, considering how many cows are killed in a year (an estimated 150 million), and this new process could save millions of dollars (even though it would also waste millions), based on environmental problems from killing mass quantities of cattle. The idea of putting together tissue in a laboratory is sort of sickening, but if you think about the things that McDonald's puts in their meat, you realize that some tissue (especially REAL tissue) isn't all that bad. I love this idea, but because of the price of the burgers, I wouldn't want to try one until at least a year after their release.
So, here's my conclusion: great product, great idea, great way to humanely make a great hamburger, bad price. That's really the only downside to this. I'm all for it. :-)
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