South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab; your thoughts?!
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – In a small laboratory on an upper floor of the basic science building at the Medical University of South Carolina, Vladimir Mironov, M.D., Ph.D., has been working for a decade to grow meat.
A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, 56, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering "cultured" meat.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110130/sc_n…
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"There's a yuck factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab. They don't like to associate technology with food," said Nicholas Genovese, 32, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology working under a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals three-year grant to run Dr. Mironov's meat-growing lab."
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Growing meat in a lab sounds more humane than stomping, clubbing, and smashing chickens against the wall. Don't get me started on how the rest of the live stock are treated. "Meet your meat." ( o _ 0 ) Doesn't mean that I'm game enough to try it; even though I live in Charleston, SC and MUSC is about 30 minutes from where I live.
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You think their keeping something from us? just saying
How r ya ((Kooties))
This is just about more people trying to justify a reason for eating meat because deep down they feel a little bad and question if it's actually ethical. Yet, at the same time they don't truly want to give up meat because it either takes too much effort and they don't really care enough to actually stick to it or they need an excuse to eat it.
I wouldn't eat engineered cultured food. I'd just eat the REAL meat (made the way nature intended), I honestly don't give a sh it whether someone else thinks it's "humane" or not.
I'm not eating that garbage!!! It is shi+. Wait till you see the FDA approves it as being ''safe'' and then years later let these major ''food'' companies selling them not label their products fake meat. Industry researchers are not required to submit research that show negative or bad results on a particular product. Industry research are showed to be skewed to support industry dollars. The first major analysis of nutritional research found the science to be every bit as susceptible to sponsor bias as pharmaceuticals.
When studies linking beverages to health are funded entirely by industry, the conclusions are four to eight times more likely to support the sponsor's commercial interest than studies with no industry funding. And the implications of the findings, are far-reaching. "Whereas conflicts of interest in pharmaceuticals could affect the millions of people taking drugs, conflicts of interest in nutrition could affect everybody — because everybody eats."
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/…