Meat That Doesn't Come From Animals

[kathyv]

Should test tube meat be the only choice, I will go vegan!

And as far as McDonalds, just run! LOL "I'm Lovin' It" seems false advertising to me! LOL

And can you imagine the chaos, especially in the Western part of the USA when the need for Beef cattle is done away with! I know the streets will be flowing with cattle (and what follows behind cattle) set free from the feed lots to fend for themselves. No more cowboy songs! No more cowboy culture! What will all the cowboys do, where will they go? Will there be test tube wranglers? Men and women whose costumes of white lab coats and shoe covers will spark an entire American sub culture! There will be bad B-Movies made depicting these test tube punchers singing lab songs as they ride their favorite office chair off into the sunset. . . I could go on and on and on! LOL

How do you brand a petrie dish?

What is the rate of gain on the growth?

Will we refer to unslaughtered product as 'meat on the glass'?

I don't even want to imagine about the fishing industry!

[HollyElise]

Any of you remember the movie "Silent Running" ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

It was a very good movie. ....about a guy (Bruce Dern) who with a few others maintained a space station of all of the earth's non-human life. It was kept there because the world didn't need living animals and plants anymore, and was kind of like a Noah's Ark. Then..... !!!! ..... the earth decides they don't need it anymore, so they are ordered to blow it up! Anyway.... it's a good movie and if you can find it, i recommend it.

[HollyElise]

Originally Posted by Celyn

Soylent Green, anyone?


I agree, it seems a grotty idea to me too. It would not be acceptable to vegetarians, I am sure, and IF the idea would be to invent a cheap food source, well, I think the planet has enough resources to feed people, but "the warld is ill-divided ....".

It jsut looks like the space exploration people saying "look - we're not entirely a useless waste of money", whereas I tend to think they are, of course. Yes, even taking into account the Teflon and the contact lenses.

I can't argue it's a money maker, but there are many more benefits we've gained from the space programs than you're implying, we just don't usually know they came out of that. To give just one more tangible item, i benefit from it every day in my profession... knitting! Yarns, fabrics, and sports clothing have been hugely revolutionized by the science of artificial fibers advanced by the space program, and i'm not being facetious. Artificial fibers didn't used to be able to wick moisture away from the body (let alone do it at different rates needed by various sports), keep a person warm (and still be light), or be soft or versitile. At this moment, in fact, i'm wearing a scarf that feels as soft as rabbit fur, but it's 100% Polyamide (it's called, "Baby Monkey" http://www.wool-tyme.com/wt_int/catalog173_0.html ) The artificial yarns aren't a substitute for natural fibers, but i'm very glad they're there, and it used to be i could always tell by feeling if something was a petroleum product or not, and i can't anymore.

And don't forget Tang. What would DO without Tang?!?!?!?!?! ROF.

[kathyv]

TANG! OMG! I don't even want to remember that! Don't they serve that as a condiment at McDonalds? heeheehee

[Not_Just_DNA]

Just the word 'Tang' conjurs many, many memories! Is that stuff still on the market? If it's not a condimnet at McD's palace surely they've found a use for it as some sort of auto fluid?!?

[Celyn]

Well, it's nice about the sheep-free knitting yarn but I still tend to think that there are problems to on this planet that could make use of more research money before we go looking for new places to pollute. Maybe I'm a Luddite.


I don't think I know what "Tang" is - should I be glad of that?


Not extremely relevant but I just remembered a song about beef cattle. Enjoy.

http://www.3dweb.no/galleri/stuestolbm/bilder/anim1.swf

[HollyElise]

Originally Posted by Celyn

Well, it's nice about the sheep-free knitting yarn but I still tend to think that there are problems to on this planet that could make use of more research money before we go looking for new places to pollute. Maybe I'm a Luddite.


I don't think I know what "Tang" is - should I be glad of that?


Not extremely relevant but I just remembered a song about beef cattle. Enjoy.

http://www.3dweb.no/galleri/stuestolbm/bilder/anim1.swf

Tang is to orange juice what Spam is to.... is to.... hey, just what kind of meat is it supposed to be? Ham, i guess, hahahhahaha.

I kind of agree with you, Celyn, about better uses for money, but i guess i'm just enough of a cynic to believe if they weren't spending it on the space program, they'd sooner spend it on doilies for warships than they would on any practical program for the needy. A pet peeve of mine is all the areas of government where they'll spend $100 to $1000 after the fact rather than spend $1 more effectively preventing it from happening.... like more prisons rather than better programs for schools or free drug rehabilitation clinics, or programs to house people with severe disabilities rather than putting any money into pre-natal care. It's not that prisons and homes aren't necessary, it's just frustrating that so much can be done in prevention and it gets so neglected!