Comments on: CNN: In-vitro meat – Would lab-burgers be better for us and the planet? http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/08/08/in-vitro-meat-would-lab-burgers-be-better-for-us-and-the-planet/ Independent and Critical Thinking about the Future of Food and Farming Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:06:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: writerdood http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/08/08/in-vitro-meat-would-lab-burgers-be-better-for-us-and-the-planet/#comment-27 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:27:16 +0000 http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/?p=302#comment-27 I read the same article, and wasn’t sure exactly what they’d end up with. Something akin to grey sludge, I would imagine, that could then be “formed” using a collagen framework, or an external mold. In any case, I don’t see it as being “really good” food for quit a while. I’m reminded of the movie “Alien” (the first one) where they eat recycled food. Why not? There are probably plenty of amino acids in sewage that could be used as the raw material to produce artificial meat. Of course, that’s not going to be something anyone would advertise.

For chicken nuggets, though, where you’re dealing with a “meat slurry” already, I think this process would at least make life less torturous (albeit non-existent) for the chickens. Considering that it would be constructed from the cells of a chicken that existed long ago, You could say that you’re eating the “ghost of a chicken.”

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