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First Test-Tube Hamburger Ready This Fall

The world’s first “test-tube” meat, a hamburger made from a cow’s stem cells, will be produced this fall, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference on Sunday.

Post’s aim is to invent an efficient way to produce skeletal muscle tissue in a laboratory that exactly mimics meat, and eventually replace the entire meat-animal industry.

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Who wants to chomp on those cells?

Could a vegetarian eat this?

Posted on February 20, 2012 at 06:33 PM

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    Pass the BBQ
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  5. mikefoley2 reblogged this from truth-has-a-liberal-bias and added:
    BUT THEN WE’RE SLAUGHTERING (potential, given the exact right set of circumstances and timing) BABIES!!! STEM CELLS ARE...
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    Riker, from Star Trek:TNG once said to some alien delegates (Deli-gates?) that “we don’t enslave animals for purposes of...
  8. kerogero reblogged this from esinololly and added:
    Don’t worry; peta will find some reason to hate on it :| I’ve heard of this sort a thing a while back, and I was...
  9. esinololly reblogged this from discoverynews and added:
    both awesomely interesting yet horrifying at...same time. I can only wonder what the...
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    Would veg*ns eat this? (Assuming they’re veg*n for animal rights issues.)
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    CREEPY. BUT COOL.
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    So it has finally come to this.
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    What?
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    First Test-Tube Hamburger Ready This Fall
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