I would REALLY love to get your thoughts on this one. It’s pretty out there!
Check out this story on Artificial Meat. Yes, you read that right. Scientists are now working in labs to create artificial meat.
Now on the surface it seems ludicrous. I know when I first saw it I immediately thought, "there’s no way in hell I’m eating artifical meat!"
But what about World Hunger? What if your choice was to eat Artifical Meat or nothing?
Seriously, I’d love to know your thoughts. According to the article this "meat" could be on store shelves in 5 years or so.
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Artificial meat…hmmm, not sure what to think. While I realize there are starving people to feed, based on the US obesity rates, I suspect we probably already have a surplus of food…we’re just not sharing it.
We’re stuffing our faces instead.
Possibly a good idea…but for now I’m a skeptic.
How artificial are we talking? “Faker” than tofurkey? And while food is always better than no food, I’d have to wonder the cost from a health, environmental and financial perspective (for starters!) of “inventing” a new food versus just make more responsible decisions with the resources in front of us. I find it hard to believe that artificial meat will one day be easier to come by than rice, corn, beans, etc etc
Just my two cents.
“can be turned into something like steak”
- That sounds something like delicious.
““The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered,”
- It’s all in the seasoning.
I’m kidding. It’s hard to discount something that could potentially impact starvation. However, (this goes back to Pat’s comment about us sharing) I do believe that it’s addressing a symptom, not a cure. If we give ourselves the opportunity, are we just going to find a way to waste more?
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
With the info I have now, I am 100% against it.
World hunger is completely solvable (Even within the next 5 years), without designing crappy food that will extend people’s lives but not the quality of their lives.
There must be a more sustainable and complete solution, it just needs to be created.
I love meat, but somehow I doubt the “cultured meat” will taste anwhere near the real thing. But if it meant people living instead of dying from starvation, then I’m all for it.
I guess we could call it “Test Tube Meat”
As has been stated, world hunger generally is not an issue of a lack of food. Corrupt governments hording the food we send, or grain crops being diverted to more profitable ethonal are more likely causes. My concern with anything created in a lab is the long-term health issues. While engineered meats might look, taste or structuraly resemble its natural counterparts, what about once digested or broken down and transported through out the body. Nutrasweet, anyone?
I dunno…I remember hearing a news story some years ago about a UK lab that was supposedly taking chicken, breaking down the dark meat in some sort of centrifuge, and then ….. recombining it? (for total lack of a better term)…. to create artificially created white meat.
Now, I dunno how good or bad any of this stuff is, but it can’t be any worse than hot dogs, sausage, or hamburger…
LOL
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Artificial meat, really?!?!?! With today’s modern industrial food production methods, if you are a “meat” eater, you are currently already eating “artificial” meat. I am a big fan of T. Colin Campbell and the China Study, and am convinced that the best possible diet for overall health, energy, weight control, and disease prevention is a whole foods plant-based diet. Teach people to grow their own plants for consumption, and you would eliminate an entire range of problems.
I like REAL Meat, don’t believe in a “Veggie” only lifestyle, don’t trust anything made in labs unless the item in question has a proven track record– PROVEN, eat a well balanced diet and have been in the “Fitness World” for over 50 yrs. People look to me for Fitness Training and advice because the see ME and figure the proof is in the pudding, so to speak. Maybe after my life span is over the world will get converted to “Star Trek “Replicator Food” but for now — Not for ME, babe ! “Wheres the Beef ??!! L.K.
Dude, already was.
Have you ever been to Taco Bell? Don’t even tell me that meat wasn’t grown in a lab somewhere.
Weird. Not feeling it…at all.
Seriously!
GM foods allready are plentiful in packages and even fresh foods. The easy answer is lets get back to eating real foods and quality supplements like Prograde
What has Jason got to say about this?
I am not sure what to think about “Soggy Pork”. Sounds like they have a long ways to go before this becomes edible. I am also not sure how this artificial meat will digest. Since it is artificial will the body even recognize it as a nutrient and absorb and utilize it.
Or will it just pass right through as 1 big chunk of *&#$*#?
I probably won’t be a supporter of this until there are years of research behind it from a nutritional standpoint as well as a disease risk standpoint.
Jayson Hunter RD, CSCS
I love me some good steak but this is just ridiculous. The amount of food America wastes on a daily basis could solve world hunger. Price Charles is right we need to stop looking at food as an easy commodity.
It’s my uncle here in the Netherlands who’s inventing it. Surprisingly there is a big coversation right now. Politics are trying to stop this, and the government may fall down these days…
We already have artificial meat. It is called the Big Mac.
Eh gads – some scientist has TOO much time on their hands.
What a sick idea.
Got to laugh that the vegetarians think it is ok since it hast hurt and animal. Can we be any further away from real food?
My friends and I took 3 Wounded Warriors hunting this weekend and between the 6 of us we harvested 7 whitetail deer. Real meat grown in the real outdoors. We kept a small portion of it and donated the rest to 2 families, each of which have 7 children to feed. Those kids would probably eat a “soggy meat” product (is that like potted meat?) but I KNOW they love and eat deer. And so do I. I haven’t purchased meat from a store in so long I can’t remember.
And if I see this garbage about “greenhouse gas emissions” one more time I swear I’m going to slap the reporter…
I’m with Scally on this one. I’ll be 50 in a few months. I didn’t get to be in the shape I’m in by following a vegetarian diet or eating GM or artificially manufactured foods. Folks may eat it, but folks who know better will stick to the real thing.
SP
What I heard was the ‘meat’ is really Soylent Green and is being developed by Clark Griswold.
Scientists have hypothesized that man’s ancestors had the size and intelligence of a modern monkey until man started eating meat – real meat. After that, man’s brain and frame grew at a rapid pace not possible with the monkey’s vegetarian diet.
I think I’ll take a past and stick with the real McCoy.
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