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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Question of the Day

Would you be willing to eat lab-grown meat?

Posted by Jonathan Bender on Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Panda burgers could be in our future.
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  • Panda burgers could be in our future.
The idea of building meat in a lab was a long running joke on at least one sitcom — Better Off Ted — but like all humor, this one seems to have been grounded in a bit of truth. The Guardian has an eye-opening piece on just how close humankind is to achieving a lab-grown hamburger. It turns out that one likely will be ready in the Netherlands this October, and it comes with a hefty price tag of more than $315,700 for its development. Animal stem cells are used as the building blocks for the meat, which might also help you realize your dream of eating a panda burger. What, that's not your dream?

Let's say for argument's sake that the meat is safe, capable of being produced for widespread distribution, allowed into the country, and, like flat-screen televisions, the costs come down in a hurry. Are you taking a bite of a test tube burger?

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The idea behind vegetarianism has appealed to me philosophically for years, but the practicality and my own profound love of meat has always held me back. If lab meat can be produced with less animal suffering than farm raised(even free-range humanely raised meat) then I'm all for it.

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Posted by lovesthemeat on 02/23/2012 at 8:45 AM

would it really matter, hell we don't know just what the heck kinda meat we are already eating.

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Posted by dr who on 02/22/2012 at 9:46 AM

I think I'll just stick with Soylent Green.

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Posted by Zeemanb on 02/22/2012 at 9:10 AM
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