Cloneburgers, yay! by FREMDFIRMA

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Cloneburgers, yay!

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UPDATED: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 05:35
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Monday, August 5, 2013 11:12 PM

Almost enough to make me considering forgiving some of Googles other transgressions, this is.

Google's Brin backs first lab-grown burger
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57596972-76/googles-brin-backs-first
-lab-grown-burger/

Just think about it, no requirements for feed, thus increasing the ability to use those crops to feed people, or produce fuel - or could use that land for something else, even.
No more factory farming, an end to that kind of cruelty.
Being able to make specific cuts or percentages on demand.

How is this not a wonderful thing ?

And one side tree of that tech is the eventual possibility of cloned human organs, thus improving our medical care and finally ending our barbaric and often corrupt catch-as-can processes.

-Frem

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 4:12 AM

BYTEMITE

I heard that they actually had lab grown a working organ of some kind recently. I think it was a liver? Because livers are pretty straight forward and will do their job even if they aren't even implanted in the right place.

Here you go.

http://www.genengnews.com/insight-and-intelligenceand153/scientists-tr
ansplant-functional-lab-grown-human-liver-into-mouse/77899845/

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351406/description/Lab-grow
n_liver_raises_hopes_but_draws_criticism

But yes, lab grown meat is a good thing... Provided they don't try to sneak extra stuff in.

And the remaining question of what will happen to the animals if they're no longer needed for the food industry. I don't see preserves getting set aside for them.

But those issues can be addressed as they occur.

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 4:29 AM

BYTEMITE

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Originally posted by G:
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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

How is this not a wonderful thing ?

-Frem

Hi Frem - for one, don't think you won't be trading one evil corp for another. Yes, meat demand is too high on the planet, but the solution isn't more fake meat but better diets. Thomas Jefferson, hypocritical lecherous jerk though he could be, did know something about diet: "one should eat mostly fruits and vegetables and just a little meat." He wrote extensively about growing veg/fruit - the garden at Monticello is as impressive as anything else there imho.

True. I've heard switching from beef to chicken and also using the ranchland for grains and vegetables would go a long way to solving some of the approaching hunger and population problems.

But it's not all that simple, actually. Ranchlands tend to be used as such because the lands aren't very good for growing much of anything besides weeds and grass. And for the weeds, see, they spray a broad-leaf herbicide... Which gets everywhere. I'm having to deal with the fallout of manure from cows fed on a ranchland treated with broadleaf herbicide being used at a community garden. The stuff is terrible and wrecks most any crop you'd want to grow. Scrawny scraggly things that can't bear fruit.

While it's not impossible and there are ways to remediate the herbicide, and while yeah, eventually that's what we're going to have to do, gotta know the scope of the problem. And in the meantime every little bit helps, even if it's fake lab grown meat.

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