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onewave
17-01-2010, 10:12 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_petri_pork

Scientisits have been able to grow pork meat from stem cells in a lab and are really happy because it could :

" one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon. "

on my local radio station there was even a guy saying that maybe vegetarians might not object to eating this because :

"a pig didn't have to die for this meat".

:eek:

Any other veggies out there think this is sick?

I suppose in the future there'll be a choice for meat eaters between; a)Stem-Cell animal meat really cheap, b)factory farmed animal meat more expensive and c)prohibitively expensive organic animal meat.

cherry on the pork chop is: the Dutch taxpayer paid for this:

"Maastricht University involved in the In-vitro Meat Consortium, a network of publicly funded Dutch research institutions that is carrying out the experiments."

:(