And is it ok for vegetarians to eat meat that was never an animal? How about Muslims and Jews, is it ok for them to eat pork that was never a pig? Those are the sorts of questions that pop into my head whe I read a story about meat grown in a test tube from stem cells:
Edible, lab-grown ground chuck that smells and tastes just like the real thing might take a place next to Quorn at supermarkets in just a few years, thanks to some determined meat researchers. Scientists routinely grow small quantities of muscle cells in petri dishes for experiments, but now for the first time a concentrated effort is under way to mass-produce meat in this manner.If they are successful though, it sure would make it much easier for future space colonists to have meat as a part of their diet, without the necessity of providing living space for a herd of cattle or other large, flatulent animals. And boy oh boy are cattle ever flatulent; they produce huge amounts of methane, about 65 to 85 million tons of methane every year.
Update: No word on whether hamburgers created with this test-tube meat would affect the efficacy of Jennifer Dziura's mind-control technique.
hat tip to Pure Pedantry
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