[extropy-chat] Brazil and China to legalize geneticallymodifiedcrops

[Kevin Freels]

I can see where the development of the processes would be expensive, but
wouldn;t the product still use many of those same natural biological
processes? I was thinking that it would actually be more efficient and less
costly than regular farming in the long run since you aren't feeding the
bones, brains, and energy to walk around and feed. I was also thinking that
there would also be more usable "meat" in the same space since a cow needs
more room

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Tymes" <wingcat at pacbell.net>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Brazil and China to legalize
geneticallymodifiedcrops


> --- Kevin Freels <cmcmortgage at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > This is good news. One thing I have been wondering
> > lately is why we don't do
> > the same thing with meat. It seems to me that if a
> > human ear can be grown on
> > the back of a mouse, and that if they are learning
> > to grow human organs in a
> > lab, it should be less complicated to grow a slab of
> > beef in a manufacturing
> > facility. You could have one assembly line that
> > "makes" rib-eye and another
> > that makes 100% lean ground beef.
>
> Mainly, it's expensive - not just in development
> costs, but also in probable per-unit manufacturing
> costs (versus the mostly naturally maintained - and
> therefore very cheap - cellular processes that are
> taken advantage of currently).  Solve the money
> problem, and one could do this.
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