Meat without feet

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Article in today's Times here

Part of me went then I thought about it some more.

Would you eat meat that was created in-vitro ?

(Can't get Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake out of my head though)

Yes, Oryx abd Crke indeed!
No, I wouldn't. I'm veggie anyway and don't like the texture of meat. I'd feed it to others though.

Huh. Now I have a mental image of the chickens with no heads.

I don't know, I want to say no I wouldn't eat it, but I suppose if it became the norm then I would probably get used to it. It doesn't sit comfortably with me for some reason, although I couldn't really say why.

I would if I thought it would taste like the real thing. Although I wonder how they would achieve that, because surely food and movement have an effect on meat flavour?

Still think it's a bit urggggh.

makes me feel a bit sick...not rational I know but urgh!

can't believe it would actually taste of anything somehow

There is the issue of feeding the world's population, and grain shortages, and biofuels and and and.

Jeeeez, no way. This is not how we should be getting our food. Does no-one remember what happened with BSE? This is too off the wall for it not to have ramifications.

No, thanks. I'll go vegetarian.

No, I wouldn't. I like my meat to have lived and frolocked for a while

Victimless meat?

Fluffyanimal, I'm sure you're right about the taste. Which is also an argument for decent conditions for animals anyway.

This won't help feed more people and it would be dangerous to replace millions of farms with food factories all sharing the same vulnerabilites (which we won't find out until too late)

The only way to cure a shortage of food is to limit births of people as the Chinese are doing. It would solve all the other major problems too.

I actually don't think it's a bad idea, but then I'm vegetarian and adverse to eating something that has frolicked (or not been allowed to, as the case may be).

No way. It's hard enough to find what food is GM or not and would hope that in future meat eaters would be able to choose real meat or not.

I can see it would have a market (fast food outlets etc) but I wouldn't eat it. There is the flavour/texture point to consider, how can muscle be given tone if it has never moved and if there is a big flavour difference in say, grass fed and corn fed beef where will flavour come from? I would rather turn vegetarian than eat it.

But we cannot feed 6 billion people on meat without terrible consequences for our planet so something has to happen. I agree with Greyriverside that we need to be curbing the worlds population and somehow reach the mindset that it isn't a right to have as many children as you want.

much like everyone else my initial reaction was urgh no way, but thinking about it, if you eat things like sausages, burgers or any other processed meat, is it really any different?
the meat in those kind of products is usually bits and pieces that you dont want to think about and wouldnt eat if you really knew where it had come from, is this any worse?

i prefer the idea of this if it means we dont have to have battery farmed animals, but if it were actually on a plate in front of me? not so sure.