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A Dutch laboratory tries to produce pork without the pig
March 31, 2009 | 11
A flask filled with bovine growth serum and embryonic stem cells from pigs. One day, this might become bacon.
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Bernard Roelen of the University of Utrecht opens the incubator where stem cells are being cultured.
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A view of stem cells from a digital camera hooked up to Roelen's microscope.
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11 Comments
Add CommentI don't eat pork because it is cruel and harms the environment so I would at least try this if it is "green" enough.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisChalk up "In Vitro Meat Symposium" as another thing that I'll probably never be able to go to in my lifetime.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFor the radical green environmentalists, this will hardly satisfy their concerns. The amount of laboratory consumables used to produce these in vitro meat products, while likely to be less impactful than herd animal maintenance, will still ruffle some feathers...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis method will never work. It's costly, and it will take massive amounts of marketing to sell. In addition, the green environmentalists hardly care about farm animal breeding. For them, it's using tap water and swapping out incandescent light bulbs for florescent. Either way, it's pig muscle cells. Where you get it, how it got there, or what happened on the way there isn't of concern. The ends will very well justify the means, although in-vitro meat probably won't be on my grocery list.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this"...the green environmentalists hardly care about farm animal breeding. For them, it's using tap water and swapping out incandescent light bulbs for florescent. Either way, it's pig muscle cells. Where you get it, how it got there, or what happened on the way there isn't of concern."
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWell that kind of misses one of the major themes of the article, but whatever...
I have always wondered why God changed things to allow the consumption of meat by humans. Probably what will help now to find a suitable substitute for meat from live animals and prevent the killing of billions of them each year is prayer and for the help of God to do so.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this"...the only problem is that it's derived from cow blood."
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe irony makes this article somewhat entertaining.
huh?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisooooh well well well http://www.ilovemeattube.com
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou can grow a liver for it like the ears they grow on mice right?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIs raising pigs more cruel than battery chickens or battery calves or feedlot cattle etc? Is any of this less harmful to the environment?
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