Lab grown hamburger

jester77

Scientists in Holland are looking to grow a hamburger in the lab using stem cells by the end of the year.

Burgers are generally not the best of meat anyway, and the way some animals are treated is truly awful but I'm not so sure about this, they would probably have to add a lot of crap just to give it a good taste.

What you think, could you eat a burger that was artificially grown in a lab?

Ghandee

Our man in Hamburg.

The expert in hamburgers!

pickarooney

I didn't think there could be anything in the world less appealing than a Dutch hamburger...

OP, have you ever had cause to say "Ich bin ein Hamburger" at all?

Seachmall

Meat is meat.

Whether it's stripped from the carcass of a young calf or grown in a petri dish is irrelevant.

CashMoney

jester77 wrote: »

they would probably have to add a lot of crap just to give it a good taste.

Clearly you have no idea what goes into a normal burger.

Dravokivich

Seachmall wrote: »

Meat is meat.

Whether it's stripped from the carcass of a young calf or grown in a petri dish is irrelevant.

I'd prefer something that had lived at one stage.

Doesn't have to be any of that free range or organic hullaballooo, just lived.

biko

Can chilli flavour be added genetically?

CashMoney

MMMmmmmm amonia....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQHPNoyO7c

Gran Hermano

I'm not sure whether I could eat a full labrador, they are a fair sized dog.

Joey the lips

It strikes me that instead of population control we are striving for more ways to increase production.

Even the article agrees that we only have a finite amount of land. However it focuses on increasing the amount of production in that land rather than controling demand.

Bearing in mind we have to share land with varios animals i dont agree with this approch.

However going forward. Growing hamburgers might be useful to populate far off planets etc.

After all. I would rather share a space ship with some of rihannas stem cells than a big fat smelly cow.

Ellis Dee

The way the world population is growing, sooner or later it will be lab-grown "meat" or something like Soylent Green. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Either way, a lot of people will be glad to get anything at all to eat.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Father Damo

CashMoney wrote: »

Clearly you have no idea what goes into a normal burger.

Like what? What nefarious ingredients apart from cow meat go into a burger, pray tell.

Or are you one of these people who believes McDonalds ice cream is made from worm spunk and such.

Sykk

pickarooney wrote: »

I didn't think there could be anything in the world less appealing than a Dutch hamburger...

OP, have you ever had cause to say "Ich bin ein Hamburger" at all?

You are a hamburger? Well, we should be friends..

Stiffler2

I only eat things that have a heart beat, sometimes with a side of lima beens.












*makes lickout sound

kylith

Yeah, I'd give it a go.

Ricardo G

Thats the dutch for ya !! They only grow the finest

Brendog

MMMmmmmmm you can really taste the dead fetus

kylith

I'm interested to know how many people who are now vegetarians would try lab grown meat. It's never been alive, so it's meat that isn't murder

emeraldstar

kylith wrote: »

I'm interested to know how many people who are now vegetarians would try lab grown meat. It's never been alive, so it's meat that isn't murder

There's an interesting thread about it in the veggie forum.

kylith

emeraldstar wrote: »

There's an interesting thread about it in the veggie forum.

Cool. Will check it out.

CreepingDeath

kylith wrote: »

I'm interested to know how many people who are now vegetarians would try lab grown meat. It's never been alive, so it's meat that isn't murder

Those tree hugging veggies will only be happy when meat grows on trees.

Stiffler2

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Those tree hugging veggies will only be happy when meat grows on trees.

But a tree is also alive, it has feeling & emotions as well, plz don't hurt the tree's

antodeco

As someone who is only back from a trip where I feasted on maggots, I'm fairly positive I'd have no issues eating lab meat