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Would you eat man-made meat?
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Would you eat man-made meat?

Published on : 29 November 2010 - 12:03pm | By Earth Beat . (Photo: Clipart)
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Traditional meat production has a big carbon footprint. Add up the feeding, housing, and transportation of cows, pigs, and sheep and those trays of meat in the supermarket start looking like a really inefficient way of feeding the planet. So where are we in terms of growing meat in a lab?

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Earth Beat host Marnie Chesterton visited Professor Mark Post, a bio-engineer at the Tissue Lab at the Eindhoven University of Technology to find out.
 
This story was taken from the latest edition of Earth Beat - Let them eat meat!

  • Professor Mark Post from the Tissue Lab at Eindhoven University of Technology<br>&copy; Photo: Mark Post  - http://www.mate.tue.nl/mate/showemp.php/1618
  • A sample of meat tissue grown at Eindhoven University of Technology<br>&copy; Photo: Mark Post  - http://www.mate.tue.nl/mate/showemp.php/1618

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Discussion

SandraV 5 December 2010 - 11:54am / Nederlands

All I have to say to this whole discussion is, yuck!

Anonymous 1 December 2010 - 6:50pm / Italy

Fact is that people will never consciously decide to eat less meat unless forced to by law or raising prices or natural calamities.
I am vegeterian and my opinion on in vitro meat is probably granted. I believe this could be an incredible opportunity to avoid the environmental costs of rearing/killing livestock to produce meat. But also food has become an ethical issue and choice. In the end we might even be able to re-establish that missing link between the food on our tables and the cow in the field.
In vitro meat would become the rule and real steaks will become a treat for special occasions and then farming could go back to the way it use to be (or even better), because the demand for it will - hopefully - decrease. Oh how nice would be to see that during my lifetime!

Anonymous 30 November 2010 - 2:09pm / United Kingdom

Absolutely not, I could not eat something that hasn't ingested nutrients, not matter how much its proved to be the same; it can't possibly be, quite ridiculous!

All of these strategies are just hopeless we need to look at ways of reducing over population so we're not eating as much meat and go back to days of eating less meat - it being a treat not a 3 times daily necessity we have come to live by.

Vera Gottlieb 29 November 2010 - 9:55pm / Germany

Hasn't enough damage been done already with geneticall modified organisms (GMOs)? Instead of mega farms where animals are kept in a most inhumane way, return to the ways farming use to be done. But...profits before people, eh?

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