Sci Fi Sausage, Beaker Bacon, Vat-Grown Veal, and Test Tube Tuna
Hans-Georg Michna
Some musings on the glorious future of lab-grown meat, from the
glorious future-oriented mag, H+:
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In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just
domestics that were affordable to farm. Yes, ANY ANIMAL, even
rare beasts like snow leopard, or Komodo Dragon. We will want to
taste them all. Some researchers believe we will also be able to
create IVM using the DNA of extinct beasts—obviously,
"DinoBurgers" will be served at every six-year-old boy's
birthday party.
Humans are animals, so every hipster will try Cannibalism.
Perhaps we'll just eat people we don't like, as author Iain M.
Banks predicted in his short story, "The State of the Art" with
diners feasting on "Stewed Idi Amin." But I imagine passionate
lovers literally eating each other, growing sausages from their
co-mingled tissues overnight in tabletop appliances similar to
bread-making machines.
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The rest of the piece is great, liming the economic turmoil to
come in meat-based economies like Argentina and New Zealand, the
ultra-urbanization of a non-agricultural America, the insertion
of good fish fat in fat steaks, and the acceleration of the
expanding circle of humanity.
But here's one place where H+ gets it wrong: ...
Read the complete article at
http://reason.com/blog/2009/11/20/sci-fi-sausage-beaker-bacon-va
Hans-Georg