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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. Paul Hardiman via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    Wonder if there will be an option for grill marks?

    Reply
    • Meagan

      Sep 17, 2011 at 6:15 am

      HAHA, this made me LoL

  2. Michael Acanfora (@BayonneChiro) (@BayonneChiro) (@BayonneChiro)

    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    Move Over Soy Protein: Lab Meat on the Horizon – The Healthy Home Economist
    http://ow.ly/6l5cB

    Reply
  3. Michael Guzman via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    Noooooo!

    Reply
  4. Jennifer Fobart via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    I literally almost threw up reading this….

    Reply
  5. Cindy Torrey via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    I’d rather see people eating lab grown flesh than see animals suffer in factory farms. Or they could simply go veg.

    Reply
  6. Maureen Del Zio via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    it’s a sick world. literally.

    Reply
  7. Neeli

    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:22 pm

    I’m getting really tired of food companies pushing questionable foods at consumers. There is no way I would knowingly purchase these kinds of foods. Lab-grown meat, yeah, that sounds delicious. Yuck. Give me my grass-fed meats.

    Reply
  8. Jan Posch via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:13 pm

    ewwwww!

    Reply
  9. Ludy Feyen via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:02 pm

    Yèch! I dread to think that – to ease us into the idea – they will mix it with real meat and sell it as if the entire product were “real”. After a while only, when labeling would be required, we would find out and we would probably have reconciled with the thought. How much longer before Soylent Green becomes reality?

    Reply
  10. Jolie Hile via Facebook

    Sep 4, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    gross!

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