What do you think about beef grown in a lab?

grumpy1 · Guru

Test-tube burgers are hitting the news again, and if the idea of eating synthetic beef makes your skin crawl, keep reading.

According to Fox News, A researcher from the Netherlands says he expects to grow the first-ever hamburger in a lab by this fall. The beef will made from bovine stem cells grown in a petri dish. Mark Post, the study leader, says the ultimate goal is to mass-produce the lab meat in order to cut back on cattle farming.

Whats wrong with cattle ranching? Not only does it provide nutritious, safe, natural animal proteins for human consumption, but it also provides countless valuable by-products that enrich our everyday lives. And, I echo the sentiments of Fox News columnist and physician, Manny Alvarez, There is nothing natural about growing meat in the laboratory for human consumption.

Whether you agree or disagree, my personal belief is that foods closest to the farm or ranch provide the best nutrition. I believe in feeding the world wholesome, healthy foods, and test-tube beef isnt the answer. In fact, it may just be another activist tactic to phase out cattle ranching.

On the morning news yesterday, the local anchorman described the test-tube beef as long, white, stringy tissues. The next step for the scientist is to create test-tube fat and mold the two components together. Yum...

Scientists using stem cells to grow hamburger in a lab | Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/02/20/scientists-using-stem-cells-to-grow-hamburger-in-lab/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fhealth+%28Internal+-+Health+-+Text%29#ixzz1n1p5eCv4

BagBoy · Guru

Anything on foxnews is just scare tactic.

When will people learn that world hunger will not be solved by simply "grow more food"? We have a finite resource to work with and if food grown in a lab is any worse for you than food made from living creatures then, by god, the scientists need to work harder. Stop hating on people that try to make the world a better, safer, healthier place to live just because you want to slaughter a cow.

There is no reason why the two ends can't co-exist, either. Not everything is an attack on something else. Stop being paranoid.

atlantadiv_fml · Veteran Member

I'm with bagboy. You lost me at Fox "News". Besides, the beef you find on most shelves and most dinner tables isn't entirely 'natural' either, unless it's USDA organic beef. And even then...

8hourfreezefest · Senior Member

Faux News is a joke

Date: Feb 29, 2012

The person who wrote that article is a ****ing idiot. We don't care about your god damn opinion, just give us the facts. He kept saying that this meat is not nutritious and that meat grown on the farm is better for you, but he has no basis for those claims. Just more bull**** from Fox.

grumpy1 · Guru

Anonymous wrote:
The person who wrote that article is a ****ing idiot. We don't care about your god damn opinion, just give us the facts. He kept saying that this meat is not nutritious and that meat grown on the farm is better for you, but he has no basis for those claims. Just more bull**** from Fox.

Do not know if I would want to eat it or not. let alone if the public would buy it. But it is not Fox News doing anything other than repoerting it. They just picked it up.

Another source of this article is (( meatcuttersclub.com ))

I can see this being done in europe and places where they do not have the open space to farm , ranch and feed the cattle population to meet their demands

Date: Mar 2, 2012

i would never eat it, and i would never suggest that someone else buy it either. ill tell you one thing is for sure, if they can keep it from turning dark, make it cheap, and put slap on a 30+ day shelf life i know that it will for sure be a good seller. the average person is pretty meat-stupid.

what about the farmers? that could make the economy even worse.

styles · Guru

the "farmers" are already owned by companies like Monsanto and Tyson so it wouldn't really matter to them

grumpy1 · Guru

Anonymous meatman wrote:
i would never eat it, and i would never suggest that someone else buy it either. ill tell you one thing is for sure, if they can keep it from turning dark, make it cheap, and put slap on a 30+ day shelf life i know that it will for sure be a good seller. the average person is pretty meat-stupid.

what about the farmers? that could make the economy even worse.
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Some of the best ways to extend shelf life and freshness would be irradiation and packaging it Carbon Monoxide. But would you want to buy meat that has a warning labile on it stating radiation treated? And then with Carbon monoxide it will not adequately preserve or keep the meat from getting old but it will help keep it looking red and fresh for several weeks up to a month.

It is not something I would want to buy.