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Re: Meat Isn't Murder (well, not anymore)
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Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:54:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/03/22/fish.food/index.html

A few of us here have previously debated the value and promise of vat-grown
meat--maybe it's not as far off as we'd thought...

This is pretty cool stuff, but a loooong way from vat-grown meat IMO.  I was
assuming that while organic tissue would have to supply code for the meat
production vats, you wouldn't need to start with 'live' tissue as a seed.  I
would count that as 'weak' vat-grown meat.  I'd wait for 'strong' vat-grown
meat instead.

It seems like a biotech gimick rather than a real process or solution.

Chris



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(...) But it's an interesting first step, at least. At some point they would presumably engineer beefy bacteria or cloned cattle cells to grow into molds, or somesuch, but in the meantime this seems like some good foundation work on the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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