[extropy-chat] Brazil and China to legalize genetically modifiedcrops

[Adrian Tymes]

--- 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.