[ExI] deathless meat

[Dave Sill]

2011/9/1 spike <spike66 at att.net>

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> http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/09/01/slaughter-free-stem-cell-meat-sausage-coming-soon/?test=latestnews
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> The article goes off on a tangent about how the meat from stem cells
> doesn’t taste good, but they ignore the enormous breakthrough it would be.
> Imagine for instance we manage to get the stem cells to convert simple
> sugars, which can be manufactured relatively cheaply perhaps even without
> using plants, and turn it into complex proteins.  That sounds a lot like
> what they have done here.  If so, I think we can find a way around the
> problem of its not tasting right without blood diffusing the tissue.  As far
> as I know, we currently do not use the blood from farm beasts when they are
> slain.  Perhaps we could collect that stuff and figure out how to get the
> stem cells to absorb it.  I don’t know if it is used now however.  Have we
> any slaughterhouse hipsters?  (Now there’s a name for a heavy metal band.)
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Yeah it's used for animal feed and fertilizer. But I'm sure it's cheap.

I think I'll stick to real meat, though.

-Dave
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