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The response, not surprsingly, was mixed.
Have a look at the video and let us know if would you eat Frankenmeat. Answer in the poll and leave a comment letting us know why or why not.
| I'll be first in line! | |
|---|---|
| Only after it's been around for a long time. | |
| No way! |
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6-19-2008 @3:10PM Goyo said... Why artificial meat when there are so many tasty critters to eat? I wonder if the frankenchicken will be any friendlier to the environment than livestock, depending on what it's made from and how much energy it requires.
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6-19-2008 @4:41PM e said... soylent green! is made of frankenmeat!
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6-19-2008 @6:55PM Red Icculus said... The thing is that frankenmeat wouldn't have marbling without veins. It would be the consistency of seitan or mock duck.
http://red-icculus.com
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6-20-2008 @12:46PM Kate said... I'm a vegetarian and still wouldn't eat it - I don't particularly have interest in eating something that is too close to real meat. Boca burgers - ok. Gardenburger riblets - a bit creepy due to the texture so I don't bother. Lab-grown meat - no.
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6-20-2008 @1:01PM kevjohn said... I don't care if it's made of soy, moon rocks, cloud vapor, or booty juice. If it tastes good and won't kill me (immediately), I'll eat it. That's the problem with most of the meatless products I've tried. No matter how much the Vegetarianites rave about them, they can't compete (yet) against the real thing.
All the other arguments against meat are secondary to the taste factor.
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6-20-2008 @5:45PM Tim said... I'd go for it if the taste were good and they were certain it could come out without being unhealthy. I've heard that stem cells sometimes produce chips of bone, and I'm worried that there would be more malformed proteins without a functioning immune system. These are problems you'd get with bad butchering and bad practices raising the animals, so I guess it's probably about the same end product as feedlot raised beef slaughtered in a meat packing plant.
I think marbling could be achieved. Layers of different tissue could be folded/rolled together, with a layer of stem cells to glue it all together.
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6-22-2008 @4:19PM itsthanatos said... I wouldn't have a problem with it to be honest. As long as it taste the same.
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6-23-2008 @8:29PM Adriane said... No...no...no. If you're worried for animal cruelty- more power to you [seriously], but don't go eating something that is supposed to have the taste and texture of the real thing- that just makes no sense to me! it's funny but I just always assume if you're a vegetarian you also try to stay AWAY from all that processed "creepy" food and stick to many more natural ingredients.
Giving up real farm-raised, freerange meat/poultry in favor of some chemical-laden lab "meat"? No thank you- I'll stick to the real thing.
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6-30-2008 @3:36AM Susannah said... @'Giving up up real farm-raised, free range meat'?
Yes! Giving up misleading 'free range' labels that are little better than the factory farms, giving up long-distance transport to slaughterhouses involving injury, dehydration and stress, giving up widespread slaughterhouse abuses including rough or downright cruel treatment of animals, giving up improper stunning and dismemberment while still fully conscious, giving up more greenhouse gases than are produced by the transport sector, giving up ton upon ton of toxic slurry full of ammonia and nitrates unleashed upon the environment, giving up BSE, Avian flu, bovine growth hormone, salmonella, tumours and pus.
I'll eat it! Bring it on!
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