THE move towards artificially engineered food has taken a step forward
after scientists grew a form of meat in a laboratory for the first
time.
Researchers in Holland have created what was described as ''soggy
pork'' and are investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the
hope that people will one day want to eat it.
They have not tasted the product, but it is believed the artificial
meat could be on sale within five years.
...
A spokesman for PETA, the animal rights group, said: ''As far as we're
concerned, if meat is no longer a piece of a dead animal there's no
ethical objection.''
However, the Vegetarian Society said: ''How could you guarantee you
were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had
been slaughtered?''
The advent of meat grown in a laboratory could reduce the billions of
tonnes of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals and help
meet the growth in meat consumption, which the United Nations predicts
will double by 2050.
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full story:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/tuck-into-some-soggy-pork-straight-out-of-the-test-tube-20091130-k177.html
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