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Okay, so… here’s a little something to think about when you’ve nothing better to do than ponder the future of meat production. A team of scientists is divising a way to grow meat in a laboratory that would be edible and more nutritious than standard cow-based food.
They’ve already produced small amounts of edible muscle tissue that could be used in future space missions, and cultured meat for mass production is the next step in the process.
How would they do it? Hold on to your gorge! One method is to grow healthy muscle tissue in large flat sheets on thin membranes that they’d then pile up to simulate meat. The other is to grow muscle cells on small beads that stretch with changes in temperature, resulting in faux meat McNuggets — just like regular McNuggets!
Growing it is no challenge. The problem is making it taste like animal protein, with the necessary fat/muscle ratio and somehow “exercising” the meat just like an animal would.
We already have something like this. It’s called “soy.” Tofu “meats” can taste like just about anything.. chicken, beef, etc. And it’s way better for human consumption than eating muscle tissue.
Posted on July 14, 2005 9:29 AM
sounds better than livestock or tofu. maybe we can stop caging intelligent life for the slaughter sooner than i thought. not to say i’m a vegetarian.
Posted on July 14, 2005 10:44 AM
I loves me some meat, and I guess animals are OK, but this just seems gross.
Posted on July 15, 2005 8:07 AM
Posted on July 13, 2005 at 04:03PM • 3 Comments • Permalink • Read more in Science Friction
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