Test-tube Meat Is Coming to A Store Near You

Oxide · Post by **Oxide** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 20:04

Pretty soon you won't need a grinder, a stuffer, or a smoker. You can just 'grow' your pepperoni in a petri dish.

Test-tube meat to be available this fall, scientist says

The world's first "test-tube" meat, a hamburger made from a cow's stem cells, will be produced this fall, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference.

Post's aim is to invent an efficient way to produce skeletal muscle tissue in a laboratory that exactly mimics meat, and eventually replace the entire meat-animal industry. ...

The ingredients for his first burger are "still in a laboratory phase," he said, but by fall "we have committed ourselves to make a couple of thousand of small tissues, and then assemble them into a hamburger." ...

You can read the whole article here: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/02/2 ... st-says/[u][/u]

Swallow · Post by **Swallow** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 22:22

Sorta brings a whole new meaning to the word Tubesteak now don't it?

Swallow