That would be a huuuuuge stretch.
Deut 12:21
Anybody else hearing Bill Cosby’s “Chicken Heart” sketch running through their heads?
It’s surprisingly simple. First, you pulverize a hundred thousand cattle…
The linked article says that they use red beet juice (red) and saffron (yellow) “to bring out the natural color.” Would that make it Soylent Orange? Maybe they make it Soylent Brown.
This is how superheroes are created…and supervillains! 
That seems rather unhelpful, since it all it says is that you may slaughter them. What we need is where it says what type of livestock you are allowed to slaughter.
I’d think that the scripture on limb of the living and/or the scripture on crops would be more useful, anyways. The former is about how it is started, and the latter is the about how it is grown. It’s not even a remotely sentient creature–more like a plant or fungus. Even insects are more sentient than this living chunk of meat.
As for it being vegan–I can’t see how. Veganism doesn’t allow you to eat any part of an animal, even if it doesn’t die in the process. Nor does it let you eat things made from said part.
The only thing that would work for veganism would be artificially produced meat–perhaps made from plants or a fungus. I seem to remember something like that being worked on, using chemicals to infuse a fungus with meat-like flavors. I can’t remember if they were also trying to bioengineer the fungus as well.
He’s asking whether the rules are inclusive or exclusive. Is it a list of things you can eat or is it a list of things you can’t eat?
Let’s say you were given restrictions on which letters you were allowed to use in your next post. If I tell you you can only use ABCDEFGHIJKLM, then that’s all you can use. But if I tell you you can’t use NOPQRSTUVWXYZ, you could get away with using, say, ÀβÇÐÊƑĞḪĪĴĶĻℳ.
Reminds me off the episode of Better Off Ted "Better Off Ted" Heroes (TV Episode 2009) - IMDb
“It tastes depressed”
Video report. Points off for the newscaster referring to it as a ‘frankenburger’.
Ţĥäŧ ṁåkèŝ s̄éñṣĕ. 
Nope, only $380,000.
However, ideally, the prices will drop radically over the next few decades.
Yes, when it gets to $1000, I will be all over it.
It grows in a bath of bovine fetus serum. Yum. That comes from regular old commercial slaughterhouses.
If it’s anything like standard laboratory tissue culture, the media will be full of hormones and antibiotics. They might be able to make due without antibiotics if the process is scrupulously sterile, but that’s harder. And hormones are necessary to make cells and tissues grow the way you want. (Of course, to be pedantic, natural beef comes from muscles that are soaking in natural hormones).
I wonder what they plan on using as media? As it turns out, calf serum is commonly used in a lot of tissue culture – it’s a cheap source of all kinds of hormones and growth factors. But that would sort of defeat the purpose of having “vegetarian” beef, wouldn’t it?
That is less disturbing then the way I originally read it as they were grown in a bath of bovine fetal semen, which in addition to being an 11 on the eewwwchh scale was highly confusing.
Yeah, fisting ass-rape of millions of bulls is right out. Unless they like it.
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Regular beef is grown swimming in growth hormones. They are in the cow. That’s what gets the steer to actually grow. Cloned cells wouldn’t eliminate the requirement of hormonal signals to stimulate growth and differentiation.
ETA: as lazybratsche already mentioned…
**Lazy **was also being humorously pedantic. The controversies about the overuse, abuse, etc of hormones and antibiotics in commercial beef production are well known.
You’re using that tired old argument, “water is a chemical; why do hate chemicals?!” when the discussion is over mercury levels in fish or something.
No, that’s not what I’m doing. I fully understand the controversies about excess hormones, antibiotics etc n our food supply. I also understand about being humorously pedantic. I am certainly not suggesting that there is an absolute functional equivalency between using BFS and naturally occurring hormones in food production.
However, there are way too many people out there who have knee jerk reactions to words like ‘chemicals’ and ‘hormones’. Many people do not understand and think if they see hormones listed as part of the growth medium that it is inherently bad. My point was that some sort of hormones will always be required because the hormones are what stimulates and controls the process. The hormone cocktail may get refined and better defined in the future, but like the cow itself, there will be a need for hormonal control over the growth process.
World’s first test tube burger! I guess it won’t be coming to a grocery store any time soon - maybe 10, 20 years from now.
What do you think - would you enjoy a nice laboratory-grown burger?
I would eat test-tube meat. They need to do some work on it to make it more palatable, though. The meat used in this taste test was 100% muscle cells - no fat.