• World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/75wi.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23576143[/url] [quote]The world's first lab-grown burger was cooked and eaten at a news conference in London on Monday. Scientists took cells from a cow and, at an institute in the Netherlands, turned them into strips of muscle that they combined to make a patty. Researchers say the technology could be a sustainable way of meeting what they say is a growing demand for meat. Critics say that eating less meat would be an easier way to tackle predicted food shortages.[/quote]
who eats a burger like that?
This is not how you make a burger.
[QUOTE=SIRIUS;41722947]who eats a burger like that?[/QUOTE] Hanni Ruetzler and Josh Schonwald :~)
[QUOTE=SIRIUS;41722947]who eats a burger like that?[/QUOTE] they're testing the meat here, not the bread
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;41722990]they're testing the meat here, not the bread[/QUOTE] So they're testing a meat patty, not a burger as stated in the title and article.
Doesn't matter as long as it isn't fatal and it tastes fine.
[QUOTE=Monk37900;41723002]Doesn't matter as long as it isn't fatal and it tastes fine.[/QUOTE] Yeah, if it gives you 42 nipples it's fine.
[QUOTE=Gustafa;41723001]So they're testing a meat patty, not a burger as stated in the title and article.[/QUOTE] The burger is the meat, we call it a burger anyway even it includes the bun
[quote=Wikipedia]A patty, in American, Australian and New Zealand English, is a flattened, usually disc-shaped, serving of ground meat or meat alternatives ... The patty itself is also called a burger, whether or not it's served in a sandwich, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where the term "patty" is rarely used.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Gustafa;41723010]Yeah, if it gives you 42 nipples it's fine.[/QUOTE] ...it depends on where the nipples are
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;41723039]...it depends on where the nipples are[/QUOTE] [img]https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSS-2GZOLJuj7x5Bna2fAyszD1Eck8vAeZpy4gzq-fR64t8ccbB[/img]
Once the cost of in-vitro meat growing comes down, this might be a reliable source of food to slow down the current food crisis. At least for the meat part; we still need to invest in shelf-based farming for grain crops so we can grow more grain on plots of land (most likely in buildings with controlled environmental systems).
[QUOTE=smurfy;41723038]wikipedia[/QUOTE] I really wonder who the fuck writes those random articles about stuff like hamburger patties and roads and Italian professional bicycle racers.
I'd eat it.
[QUOTE=blehblehbleh;41723179]I really wonder who the fuck writes those random articles about stuff like hamburger patties and roads and Italian professional bicycle racers.[/QUOTE]PEople
I posted the prelude to this a month or so ago! It is pretty cool technology. Still totally inefficient and nowhere near ready to meet the needs of consumers, but no great breakthrough ever "just became." You're looking at the great grampa of the burgers your children will eat. History will remember these compressed beef fibers as a pioneer in grown-to-order meals.
I can't imagine it would taste all that good since there's no fat there, but the idea is an interesting one.
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;41723470]I can't imagine it would taste all that good since there's no fat there, but the idea is an interesting one.[/QUOTE] Then again, it's a hamburger. It's a bunch of mixed-up, mashed-up meat from god knows where on a cow. I'm sure with the right mixture of lab-grown materials it could attain a taste similar to a cheap hamburger.
This is HUGE. [QUOTE]Upon tasting the burger, Austrian food researcher Ms Ruetzler said: "I was expecting the texture to be more soft... there is quite some intense taste; it's close to meat, but it's not that juicy. The consistency is perfect, but I miss salt and pepper." She added: "This is meat to me. It's not falling apart."[/QUOTE] This means the meat has no severe problems with taste: the biggest obstacle that seemed to lie before lab grown meat of this kind. What this means is we can grow so much more food so much more efficiently, no wasting time raising cows and letting them waste energy and producing methane walking around. And, PETA will probably like it to since it could be feasible to never have to slaughter an animal to eat meat. The big problem will be of course, the perception people have of it. So many people already buy "organic" just for the label at a much higher expense, and if people are scared of GMO i can see those people trying to riot over this. I want one.
no thank you sounds creepy
[QUOTE=Gustafa;41723010]Yeah, if it gives you 42 nipples it's fine.[/QUOTE] I dont think you understand how biology works, it's not like in the cartoons when people get superpowers from being bitten by radiactove spiders. It's just meat which was created from cells of a cow.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;41723629]I dont think you understand how biology works, it's not like in the cartoons when people get superpowers from being bitten by radiactove spiders.[/QUOTE] yeah, instead they get [URL=http://rt.com/news/monsanto-rats-tumor-france-531/]tumors[/URL] [editline]5th August 2013[/editline] fixed my link after 4 edits
[QUOTE=Stroma;41723652]yeah, instead they get [URL=http://rt.com/news/monsanto-rats-tumor-france-531/]tumors[/URL] [editline]5th August 2013[/editline] fixed my link after 4 edits[/QUOTE] If you would actually read the article, it's linked to the weed killer that the crops had been subjected to whilst being grown, not the crops themselves.
[QUOTE=PelPix123;41723497]So does this mean that real beef is now vegan?[/QUOTE] The cells still originated from cows, so at least in this case it would not be vegan. The idea here is essentially to take small bits of meat and grow them into larger bits.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;41723691]If you would actually read the article, it's linked to the weed killer that the crops had been subjected to whilst being grown, not the crops themselves.[/QUOTE] it doesn't say that conclusively, it says that when exposed to the weed killer "the rats showed similar symptoms."
[QUOTE=Stroma;41723652]yeah, instead they get [URL=http://rt.com/news/monsanto-rats-tumor-france-531/]tumors[/URL] [editline]5th August 2013[/editline] fixed my link after 4 edits[/QUOTE] The lab grown burger is not a GM food.
This is some awesome shit, right here. Once the technology picks up speed and starts improving quickly, this might become a commonplace method of getting meat. It'd be perfect for the sorts of people who avoid eating meat due to animals having to be killed for it, since this wouldn't even be from a live animal, per se. On top of that, it could allow us to solve a lot of hunger-related problems due to efficiency and quantity of grown meat, as other people above me said. That said, I don't quite get why anyone would be against this if the meat winds up tasting and overall being the same. Sure, the idea of eating meat grown in a lab may sound odd, but it's a lot prettier of an image than the current method of getting meat. One more thing: [QUOTE]Critics say that eating less meat would be an easier way to tackle predicted food shortages.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that's pretty unrealistic, considering how prevalent meat is in the human diet (there's a reason we're omnivores) and how big of a business it is. Also, when given the option to advance human scientific knowledge and ability further, some people would rather we sit around and wait for it to fix itself? What.
[QUOTE=Mr._N;41723774]The lab grown burger is not a GM food.[/QUOTE] it uses stem cells, which is not considered GM, but [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering#Definition]closely related to GM and genetic engineering can be used within them[/URL]; meaning it could be considered a GM food
From what I've heard it's far from perfect. Apparently the growing cells need TONS of antibiotics to prevent various kinds of infection, that's an issue that DEFINITELY needs to be resolved
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