In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...Janet and her husband have lived in the community of Franklin for over 30 years and have two married children. She is serving a three-year term as a
Franklin School Board member
$1,000,000 for Test Tube Steak
By Janet Evans
Thursday, Apr 24 2008, 06:40 AM
A sample of muscle grown without an artificial scaffold.
(Photo: Wired / Tissue Genesis)
Are you a scientist?
A food chemist?
If so, this might be just for you....
"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA] is offering a million-dollar prize for the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.” “In vitro” and “test-tube grown” are not ideas one usually associates with meat. The meat-substitute niche is currently occupied largely by soy in all its miraculous if slightly disappointing forms."
Hmmm..
Sounds like it might end up being rubber band -type meat to me.
But with the food crisis going on in third world countries, who knows what the future might hold?
Though, the cost of test-tube meat would probably cost a lot of moo-lah....
Read the rest of the editorial from the New York Times
Million Dollar Meat ÷ here
And for a history lesson…
From Popular Science, June 1936 (via Modern Mechanix)
Life from the Test Tube ÷ here
And some fun
Future Food ÷ here
We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.
Winston Churchill
Popular Mechanics
March 1932
As for me…as much as I love a medium-rare filet mignon, leg of lamb, prime rib, duck l'orange and yes, a good kosher all beef hot dog, I’d rather stick to vegetables than live off of “in vitro” meats.
