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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / Move Over Soy Protein: Lab Meat on the Horizon

Move Over Soy Protein: Lab Meat on the Horizon

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

lab meat

You’ll want to sit down for this one.

It appears that Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) have some real competition coming down the pike.

Artificial lab meat is now being “grown” from pig stem cells fed with fetal horse serum.

Scientists in the Netherlands are indeed on the cusp of developing “slaughter-free” meat produced solely in a lab environment.  One expert went so far as to predict that the first stem cell sausage could be available within 6 months.

Dr. Mark Post of Maastricht University said, “I’m hopeful we can have a hamburger in a year.”

The biggest problem scientists are dealing with right now is that lab meat is white due to the lack of myoglobin, the iron carrying blood protein that gives meat its color.

Dr. Post said that scientists are working on ways to build up the myoglobin in the synthetic meat to give it more color and hence be more appetizing to consumers. In short, the vegan alternative to gassing meat in supermarkets to keep it perpetually red!

Farmers do not appear threatened by this new development – at least not yet.

A spokesperson for the Cattle Council of Australia said the large amount of FrankenMeat that would need to be produced and the difficulty in doing so on a mass scale precludes any competition for the foreseeable future.

You can be sure when mass production of lab meat does become financially viable, fast food chains will be all over it. They’ve already shown themselves to be more than willing to partially substitute cheap, MSG laced soy protein as a filler for conventional beef to cut costs.

The real question, however, seems to be:  will vegetarians eat it? Since they already gobble up edamame misguidedly thinking it’s a vegetable, the chances are probably pretty good.

 

Source

Slaughter-Free Stem Cell Sausage Coming Soon

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (89)

  1. Renita Krahe Balent via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    yaaah PETA……. NOT!

    Reply
  2. Renita Krahe Balent via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    One story I read was that PETA is encouraging it and I think offering a 1 million prize.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/01/artificial-meat-6-months_n_945767.html

    Reply
    • Ann

      Sep 7, 2011 at 2:01 pm

      I’m into PETA. People Eating Tasty Animals.

    • Marcela

      Oct 10, 2011 at 4:11 pm

      WOW.

      And as if that wasn’t disturbing enough – check out the comments – people there LIKE this idea!! My jaw literally DROPPED reading them! Scarrryyy….and it doesn’t surprise me the battsh*ttery that is PETA likes it – they seem to be doing pretty well if they can give away a cool mill like that (which is REALLY sad.)

  3. Sherry England via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    Unbelieveable!!!That is so disgusting!!!Why don’t they just shoot us and get it over with instead of slowly torturing us with all this food that is so detrimental to our health!! I guess they can’t make money off the dead.

    Reply
  4. Mary Tom via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    Synthetic meat? – Wasn’t this on the show ‘Eureka’ a few seasons ago? The chicken farmer only grew the chicken parts that people ate?

    Reply
    • Linda

      Sep 5, 2011 at 11:49 am

      Yes! I was just thinking of that.

  5. Stephanie

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    What is there motivation? Obviously this is disgusting and unhealthy! Are they trying to keep people sick so they spend 50% at the doctors/hospitals!? Healthcare will never suffer……

    Reply
  6. Sara James via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    I think we should do experiments on these researchers’ brains to show how and sick and twisted one must be to think “this” is a good idea! Blech!

    Reply
  7. JohnandJennifer Accomando via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    Disgusting.

    Reply
  8. Elisabeth Carrozza Wilkins via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    I cannot even believe people are spending money on this research.

    Reply
  9. Kim Buesing via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    UGH!…. Makes me shiver!!

    Reply
  10. Dawn Mc Laughlin via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    That is disgusting! I have no problem giving up meats all together before stomaching LAB meats!

    Reply
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