World’s First Lab-Grown Chicken Has Been Tasted And Apparently It’s Delicious

[ABX]

Lab-grown meat is a not a new concept. We’ve had the meatball, the world’s most expensive beefburger, and possibly shrimp. Now it’s the turn of chicken and duck.

San Francisco-based startup, Memphis Meats, has produced the very first “clean meat” poultry grown from cells in a lab, serving them up in a taste test that included classic southern fried chicken and decidedly fancy duck a l’orange.....

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-labgrown-chicken-has-been-tasted-and-apparently-its-delicious/

[Smokin Joe]

Frankenfood....

[DB]

I don't want to be a Luddite but I really don't like this idea...

[montanajoe]

Must say I'm baffled by those who grow this stuff and more so by those who would ever consider eating it..

[DB]

Must say I'm baffled by those who grow this stuff and more so by those who would ever consider eating it..

Well, theoretically, if one could grow meat directly you could have essentially perfect consistent "meat" without large ranches, large water use, feedlots, animal transportation and slaughter houses. You would have no animal waste to take care of. These meat factories could be near where it is consumed. No issues with humane treatment of the animals. The cost savings from all that could be dramatic. The meat could be marbled consistently with no gristle or bone. You could eat your meat as rare as you like with no chance of E. coli.

But there's still that elephant in the room...

[montanajoe]

Well, theoretically, if one could grow meat directly you could have essentially perfect consistent "meat" without large ranches, large water use, feedlots, animal transportation and slaughter houses. You would have no animal waste to take care of. These meat factories could be near where it is consumed. No issues with humane treatment of the animals. The cost savings from all that could be dramatic. The meat could be marbled consistently with no gristle or bone. You could eat your meat as rare as you like with no chance of E. coli.

But there's still that elephant in the room...

Yep and if cooked right I've heard they are pretty tasty..

[EC]

Well, theoretically, if one could grow meat directly you could have essentially perfect consistent "meat" without large ranches, large water use, feedlots, animal transportation and slaughter houses. You would have no animal waste to take care of. These meat factories could be near where it is consumed. No issues with humane treatment of the animals. The cost savings from all that could be dramatic. The meat could be marbled consistently with no gristle or bone. You could eat your meat as rare as you like with no chance of E. coli.

But there's still that elephant in the room...

You missed out the biggest plus. It would shut vegetarians up. Suddenly it would be their dietary choices ruining the planet. 

[DB]

You missed out the biggest plus. It would shut vegetarians up. Suddenly it would be their dietary choices ruining the planet. 

Well that was "No issues with humane treatment of the animals."...

Here's the real question, is lab grown meat vegetarian especially if it is grown with plant matter as the raw material and doesn't involve any actual animals?

[EC]

I really don't know. I mean technically it was never alive in any real sense in the first place, but neither are unfertilized eggs and those still get rated as "meat."

[Lando Lincoln]

So... it tastes like chicken...

[Free Vulcan]

Bird, bird, bird, yardbird is the word...

[GtHawk]

Frankenfood....

I remember this from an episode of Eureka, it didn't end well.

[Idiot]

This is supposed to taste like chicken too.

[Idiot]

This is supposed to taste like chicken too.

Speaking of rattlesnakes.  We staked a couple of wells to drill today and ran across 4 of the vile serpents.  Gonna be a BAD snake year.

[bigheadfred]

You missed out the biggest plus. It would shut vegetarians up. Suddenly it would be their dietary choices ruining the planet. 

@AbaraXas

Plus no one would actually care if there was no one there to pick the broccoli.

[bigheadfred]

Speaking of rattlesnakes.  We staked a couple of wells to drill today and ran across 4 of the vile serpents.  Gonna be a BAD snake year.

Make belts.

Is BAD snake a redundancy?