Professor Post said artificially cultured meat could mean the meat of one animal could be increased to a volume equivalent to the meat of a million animals, which would reduce animal suffering and be good for the environment. At present the product is a sticky, soggy and unappetizing muscle mass , but the team is seeking ways to exercise and stretch the muscles to turn the product into meat of a more familiar consistency. NASA has funded research in the US on growing fish chunks from cells and meat from turkey cells, with the idea that the technology could have wide application in future space travel, since growing edible muscle would allow future astronauts to avoid a range of problems associated with using live animals in space. I like meat, but i dont like animal suffering, so yes, and hopefully, onces perfected, growing in vitro meat possibly requires less energy, water, crops for cattlefood, oil and generate less methane / co2 emissions. Commercial beef/pork/chicken operations generate tons of "waste product", and because of common practices like regularly feeding the animals antibiotics and hormones – as well as grinding up animals that died and feeding them to the surviving animals – probably contribute to health issues to people. Excellent research, but I doubt the pig farmers will take kindly to this bit of news and it will be a long long long long way till we actually stop or even reduce the mass slaughter of pigs (no drama implied, even though it would in part be justified after seeing some documentaries out there on meat and animal raising/processing). read more
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