Thread: $345,000 Burger - The Stem Cell Burger

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7M31VE20111111

Using stem cells harvested from leftover animal material from slaughterhouses, Post nurtures them with a feed concocted of sugars, amino acids, lipids, minerals and all other nutrients they need to grow in the right way.


So far he has produced whitish pale muscle-like strips, each of them around 2.5 cm (1 inch) long, less than a centimetre wide and so thin as to be almost see-through.


Pack enough of these together -- probably around 3,000 of them in layers -- throw in a few strips of lab-grown fat, and you have the world's first "cultured meat" burger, he says.

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I don't know why but eating a Petri dish grown burger kills my appetite.

uh this isn't going to "feed the world" for the same reason genetically modified plants will never feed the world because hippies will complain that it is an aberration of nature and that africans should starve to death rather than let science feed them

Originally Posted by Mad Pino Rage

I don't know why but eating a Petri dish grown burger kills my appetite.

We'll get used to it, especially if the prices for lab-grown meat are so low compared to the real thing but the quality is similar.

Stinky, rotten milk doesn't sound appetizing, yet for some reason people love cheese and yogurt.


My only problem is that meat probably wouldn't be synthesized with bone, and bones give so much of the flavor.

Originally Posted by Nermy2k

uh this isn't going to "feed the world" for the same reason genetically modified plants will never feed the world because hippies will complain that it is an aberration of nature and that africans should starve to death rather than let science feed them

I like the idealism of the scientists and of science in general, but I think it is reasonably fair to be skeptical or concerned when it comes to ones health. As for hippies, well they smell like patchouli oil and are definitely misguided.

Originally Posted by Atomic

Didn't they do something like this 15 or 20 years ago?

Err, no. I can tell you for certain that this kind of artificial meat is entirely new.

I think scarf deleted another post of mine. and I didn't even say banana hammock this time

oh yea, my internet fucked up because those niggers were down the street...couldn't post it