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Now that I have your attention........ an interesting read if you can see past the hyperbole and name calling. If implemented, In-Vitro Meat probably has the potential to be historically transformative.

Quote:Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives

Future Flesh" is squatting on your plate. Are you nervous? Stab it with a fork. Sniff it. Bite! Chew, swallow. Congratulations! Relax and ruminate now because you're digesting a muscular invention that will massively impact the planet.

In-Vitro Meat -- aka tank steak, sci fi sausage, petri pork, beaker bacon, Frankenburger, vat-grown veal, laboratory lamb, synthetic shmeat, trans-ham, factory filet, test tube tuna, cultured chicken, or any other moniker that can seduce the shopper's stomach -- will appear in 3-10 years as a cheaper, healthier, "greener" protein that's easily manufactured in a metropolis. Its entree will be enormous; not just food-huge like curry rippling through London in the 1970's or colonized tomatoes teaming up with pasta in early 1800's Italy. No. Bigger. In-Vitro Meat will be socially transformative, like automobiles, cinema, vaccines.

Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!

I think we're heading towards eating the food they had on the original Star Trek, you know, those little nutritional squares.

Yum



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(12-09-2009 03:13 PM)DrTorch Wrote: [ -> ]SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!

A skeptic podcast that I listen to began with a discussion on the despicable allegation that one of the anti-immunization/autism activists had made, saying that the podcast-host ate babies. They then went on to this topic, among other things and one of the hosts joked that she'd "try human" if it were grown like this (part of the discussion was about how the in-vitro flesh is fed a soup of nutrients derived from pork, IIRC). But, soylent green (along with mad cow disease) was on my mind the whole time.

(12-09-2009 04:11 PM)I45owl Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-09-2009 03:13 PM)DrTorch Wrote: [ -> ]SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!

A skeptic podcast that I listen to began with a discussion on the despicable allegation that one of the anti-immunization/autism activists had made, saying that the podcast-host ate babies. They then went on to this topic, among other things and one of the hosts joked that she'd "try human" if it were grown like this (part of the discussion was about how the in-vitro flesh is fed a soup of nutrients derived from pork, IIRC). But, soylent green (along with mad cow disease) was on my mind the whole time.

From the article

Quote:Humans are animals, so every hipster will try Cannibalism. Perhaps we'll just eat people we don't like, as author Iain M. Banks predicted in his short story, "The State of the Art" with diners feasting on "Stewed Idi Amin." But I imagine passionate lovers literally eating each other, growing sausages from their co-mingled tissues overnight in tabletop appliances similar to bread-making machines. And of course, masturbatory gourmands will simply gobble their own meat.

You KNOW this will be all the rage in certain circles.

(12-09-2009 04:59 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:Humans are animals, so every hipster will try Cannibalism. Perhaps we'll just eat people we don't like, as author Iain M. Banks predicted in his short story, "The State of the Art" with diners feasting on "Stewed Idi Amin." But I imagine passionate lovers literally eating each other, growing sausages from their co-mingled tissues overnight in tabletop appliances similar to bread-making machines. And of course, masturbatory gourmands will simply gobble their own meat.

You KNOW this will be all the rage in certain circles.

Ok, I know you'll find this hard to believe, but I predicted this 1.5 years ago when I was talking to my pastor about life, the universe and everything, before moving.

With the vampire rage, and the increase in zombie interests, I said I suspected people would be trying cannibalism.

Now as for why...I'm going to push my spiritual beliefs. I don't believe this is a human contrivance. I believe this is a blasphemy of the sacrament of communion. And I believe it is from a supernatural influence.

Looking at this from a different perspective, does the planet like us filling our dead people with formaldehyde and sticking them in a hole in the ground? Or how much energy and pollution is generated when we cremate someone? Would nature be better off if we dumped our dead in Alaska so the starving polar bears have something to eat, or should we be mulched up and have a tree planted on the piece of dirt we were spread across? How many forests were cleared to make room for cemeteries? How many critters get killed or displaced in the digging of a grave?

What are the required raw materials? You can't make something from nothing.

(12-09-2009 05:16 PM)DrTorch Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-09-2009 04:59 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:Humans are animals, so every hipster will try Cannibalism. Perhaps we'll just eat people we don't like, as author Iain M. Banks predicted in his short story, "The State of the Art" with diners feasting on "Stewed Idi Amin." But I imagine passionate lovers literally eating each other, growing sausages from their co-mingled tissues overnight in tabletop appliances similar to bread-making machines. And of course, masturbatory gourmands will simply gobble their own meat.

You KNOW this will be all the rage in certain circles.

Ok, I know you'll find this hard to believe, but I predicted this 1.5 years ago when I was talking to my pastor about life, the universe and everything, before moving.

With the vampire rage, and the increase in zombie interests, I said I suspected people would be trying cannibalism.

Now as for why...I'm going to push my spiritual beliefs. I don't believe this is a human contrivance. I believe this is a blasphemy of the sacrament of communion. And I believe it is from a supernatural influence.

It may not go that far. But, you may just have PETA types wearing human-skin coats in homage to Silence of the Lambs. WWHLD?

(12-09-2009 05:32 PM)smn1256 Wrote: [ -> ]Looking at this from a different perspective, does the planet like us filling our dead people with formaldehyde and sticking them in a hole in the ground? Or how much energy and pollution is generated when we cremate someone? Would nature be better off if we dumped our dead in Alaska so the starving polar bears have something to eat, or should we be mulched up and have a tree planted on the piece of dirt we were spread across? How many forests were cleared to make room for cemeteries? How many critters get killed or displaced in the digging of a grave?

People are considering these things

http://www.livinglegacies.co.nz/handbook.html

http://www.breakpoint.org/commentaries/1...gaias-goat

(12-09-2009 06:36 PM)DrTorch Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-09-2009 05:32 PM)smn1256 Wrote: [ -> ]Looking at this from a different perspective, does the planet like us filling our dead people with formaldehyde and sticking them in a hole in the ground? Or how much energy and pollution is generated when we cremate someone? Would nature be better off if we dumped our dead in Alaska so the starving polar bears have something to eat, or should we be mulched up and have a tree planted on the piece of dirt we were spread across? How many forests were cleared to make room for cemeteries? How many critters get killed or displaced in the digging of a grave?

People are considering these things

http://www.livinglegacies.co.nz/handbook.html

http://www.breakpoint.org/commentaries/1...gaias-goat

Dang.... I was being sarcastic. Who knew that the loons are inhabiting every nook and cranny of irrationality.

I've heard of such things. Given that I have a fondness for raptors, I'd consider a living legacy on a remote rock in Colorado. Alternately, a rural highway in Texas.

I would likewise like OBL to be a living legacy for Porkzilla.