Is this new to anyone? Sure is to me. This is the first time I have heard of it. You can read the entire article at:

Artificial meat



The person who sent me this link also sent a list of other article where this was found. I have put that link here and you can see many articles on health there. Be advised I have not read the other articles so I am not sure of their content:

Health, etc. articles

The article didn't explain how artificial meat would be grown, nor did it offer a definition of artificial meat. I've always thought of artificial meat as "meat analogs" such as vege-burgers and the like. Meat substitutes made from soybeans, as an example.
But this article is talking about something else. I'm not understanding it! Do they propose to take animal flesh and somehow be able to grow it independently of a conscious animal? What am I not understanding?

I am wondering the same thing on just how they will be able to do this.

Maybe we will hear more about this later on.

It is a technique where individual cells from humans or animals are taken and breed in laboratory settings. Previously I have heard about this beeing used for creating new ears for humans who have lost theirs through accidents. I have also heard about experiments trying to use this to recreate hearts and livers. The advantage if this works, contrary to transplanting from another human, is that since it is grown from the persons own tissue there would be less or no need for medication to keep the transplanted organ in the body.

This is the first time I heard about this being used in the meat industry but I guess it was only a matter of time. Will be interesting to see if this works and if people will really be willing to eat it once it is released on the market.

Thomas,

I'm unsure God's patience will last that long.

Gordon

I think the medical implementations are happening today.

A couple of things as I glanced through the posts:
1. Human parts are being grown currently i.e. cartilege etc.
2. The artificial meat is grown cell by cell. I saw a documentary on this and it was the most expensive hamburger 1/4 pounder if that for roughly $10K. some of the scientists ate it to test it out, the texture looked like beef.

God Bless,
Will

It would appear that meat-eaters could ere long be consuming human cells. Cannabalism at arm's length so to speak. Not quite the Eden diet.

Gordon

Not likely. Think meat-eaters will ere long be consuming cow cells. Though, that isnt such a huge difference from how it is now. Hopefully for them, there will be fewer unwanted lifeforms in the meat. And you eliminate the risk of mad cow disease.

Is it cloning? or something different.

Agribusiness is already putting animal DNA into the food crops.

I remember back in the mid 1970's, I was going home with one of my roommates for Thanksgiving holiday. We had gotten a ride with a fellow student. I remember him telling us that one day they would grow cows and such like a plant or something. Very science fiction then. I have heard of it in the past by people that are into sci fi. Seems like that "futurist advances" are often first mentioned in science fiction literature. Maybe to get people use to the idea first or it was thought up as fiction and some will take the idea and go with it.

I remember seeing on the science channel some time back a special they had. It was about all the things that were invented because of the Star Trek series.