Yuck.

[sheepdog 10]

Here it comes, just want we always wanted, test tube meat!

http://www.thedogpress.com/SideEffects/In-Vitro-Meat-126.asp

Of course, backed by PETA, (and I'm not even talking about People for Eating Tasty Animals) and their significant financial contributions. Remember all those donations they ask for to help the animals, well this is what they use some of it for. Besides of course, burning down houses, and labratories, and lobbying for laws that will prevent you from owning or enjoying animals in any way shape fashion or form.

Personally, I'll take my chances with meat grown on an animal, not in a test tube. Sure, they claim it can be made disease free, but what about taste and nutritional value? How can they synthasize the grass and grain and fresh air and sunshine that makes the best steaks in the world?

Granted, the study was started by NASA, and I can see some need for a good protein source during space travel or in a space station where living animals might be impossible to keep, and for short term dietary needs in this sort of condition, but for long term human health I think this is a really bad idea.

[sharmiladevi 0]

Yes I too agree with you, anything obtained naturally has its own value and taste in spite of the other side effects. Even the apples which we buy those days when immediately cut and exposed to the atmosphere will turn brown, but nowadays, they don't rot at all, which is actually some scientists say due to the exposure to radiation, so as a cause human beings are prone to many carcinogenic diseases...... so maybe this technology can be used for short term as u said...as we use ready-made noodles once in a while when in need. And one more thing, people who really doesn’t like animal cruelty can opt for the choice of being vegetarian. Even I don’t like animal cruelty that’s why I am a vegetarian. Instead it can also be very well compensated by other vegetarian supplements itself like cottage cheese, mushrooms, soya meal makers…. So on…

[Quatrux 4]

Scientists seem to synthesize a lot of things these days, but those products usually different very much in taste and quality, but a lot of people will buy it, because it's cheaper and long term results might be bad for the health of human kind, but for a lot of whom statistics and the "problem" that ~50% of our grain goes to animals to create meat for us is really a problem for somebody.To eat meat which tastes like rubber isn't for me, but it might be the future, because it's cheaper? As I know some people in the world are so rich they don't know where to invest their money and they invest in different crazy things, why not just give them to feed some people? Because with this kind of movement about food, less people will be able to eat real meat. I am not talking about those, who does not have drinkable water, and as I know, numbers are huge...

[sheepdog 10]

There are just some things that I won't sacrifice just for price vrs taste. Butter is at the top of that list, there hasn't been a tub of magarine in this house for years. Even if butter is $3 a pound and that other grease is $1. What's the point of eating something you don't enjoy? There is more than enough land to raise both grain and cattle in this world, without any detriments to the enviornment. Common sense agriculture practices, such as crop rotation, grazing land rotation, irrigation, and many other breakthroughs make this completely feasable. Also keep in mind, cattle make more than meat. Their digestive systems also produce one of the finest natural fertilizes in the world, and they can survive on roughage that is not fit for anything else to eat, and in the meam time, these grass lands that feed the cattle protect the soil and actually conserve our resourses. Row cropping of marginal lands causes the washing away of valuable top soil, which in turn causes water polution and other detrimental effects on our enviournment. Most of the meat a cow makes comes from this grassland, not grain. Cattle are "finished" on grain before butchering, they do not usually grow up on it. I am luckier than most, I'm not stuffed into some nasty, overcrowded city, and therefore, I have lots of options open to me that other folks may not have. We can grow our own meat. Cattle certainly take a fair amount of room, but most people can at least have chickens or rabbits in a small area. You would be shocked to know how much meat a rabbit can make in a years time. And funny after sharmiladevi mentioned apples, I hadn't really thought about it, but it's true, I've seen that lately in what few store bought apples we have purchased. And believe me, there have not been that many! We have our own trees too, and let me tell you, once you get used to your own home grown fruit, you just won't be able to stand the tasteless mush that passes for fruit in the grocery stores these days. It's sad really. So many people out there don't even know what real food tastes like.

[Quatrux 4]

And funny after sharmiladevi mentioned apples, I hadn't really thought about it, but it's true, I've seen that lately in what few store bought apples we have purchased. And believe me, there have not been that many! We have our own trees too, and let me tell you, once you get used to your own home grown fruit, you just won't be able to stand the tasteless mush that passes for fruit in the grocery stores these days. It's sad really. So many people out there don't even know what real food tastes like.

I agree too, some fruits and vegetables from the store seem to have no taste, apples seem to be much better from my village, where my wifes parents grow them their self , really different taste and I can say the same for strawberry, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, lettuce/salad and potatoes, but you can get quite good potatoes in a store too, if they are fresh, but the price is quite different. They taste so much differently, when you grow them yourself, when you get them from a store, they look like tomatoes, but has no taste, strawberry looks like strawberry, but it has no taste and whenever you get used to store fruits and vegetables, I think you start to forget what is the real taste of those vegetables

In our country exists farmer stores, where farmers can come and sell their production, the taste is much better, they usually have some certificates, but the prize is also 2x bigger than from a store, so it's not that all people can afford it.

[sheepdog 10]

Yes, I couldn't agree with you more. Another thing I won't even bother eating are store boughten tomatoes. They are probably the worst of all vegetables to have to eat when commercially grown. There is just no cmparison with them and home grown tomatoes. The problem lies in the early picking of commercially grown tomatoes and other vegtables. They are picked before they are ripe or fully mature, because when they are ripe, they get soft and can't handle the stress of shipping the usual thouands of miles our produce is drug across the country. And it's not just fruits and vegetables that suffer from commercial raising. I made a recent convert to "farm fresh eggs" with my hired man's wife. I occasionally give them extra eggs when my hens get ahead of our own egg eating abilities, and now she can't stand to eat store bought eggs. Even though my chickens are not "free range" because there are just too many dogs around here for that to be feasable, I still occasionally pick them armloads of fresh greens, and they get all of our table scraps the dogs wouldn't eat. It makes a tremendous difference when they get variety in their diets instead of one single type of commercial feed.