Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen

jdray writes "Australia's GizMag is running an article about the industrialization of a NASA-tested concept for artificially creating meat. The article mentions meat makers as home appliances. Carne-Matic aside, this sounds like a mixed blessing, and brings about visions of some sterile, Spandex-jumpsuit future where food production is controlled by some central authority, and real, hoof-grown meat is a rare delicacy. Remember, Soylent Green is people!" You can read a curiously familiar Slashdot story from a month ago too.

I think they already did this...

[bladernr]

its called SPAM

You Insensitive Clod!...

[Suburbanpride]

I'm a vegetarian

GizMag

[SpaceAdmiral]

I guess Giz Mag doesn't mean what I thought it did.

Re:I think they already did this...

[oriole1]

Not to mention that McDonald's has been using this technology for years. Mmmmm..... "All-beef" patty, "Special" sauce, lettuce (aka crunchy water), cheese?, pickles, onions, sesame seed bun....

First step toward replication food?

[tamuct01]

I wonder if this will be one of the first steps toward protein resequencers and eventually food replicators. Star Trek, here I come!

Looks like meat

[ralph_the_wonder_lla]

"Looks like meat, tastes like meat, I'll bet there isn't any meat in here. Doubleplusgood!" - 1984

Taco Bell

[Anonymous Coward]

Taco Bell has meat made out of used napkins and sauce, so I don't really see how this is a big deal.

Soylent Green is people!

[N8F8]

...is brought to you by Soylent red and Soylent yellow, high energy vegetable concentrates, and new, delicious, Soylent green. The miracle food of high-energy plankton gathered from the oceans of the world.

Dammit

[Bitmanhome]

So I gotta hire a pastamancer now?

Re:I think they already did this...

[kent, knower of all]

Interesting parallel. Both claim to be offerring some kind of meat, but neither one really claims to offer food. :~}

Re:You Insensitive Clod!...

[oriole1]

"cruelty-free"???

What about the folks who have to eat this stuff?

Re:Society of people scared of acne...

[grasshoppa]

Damn dude, that's fucking nasty. Seriously.

Why not just walk up to a cow and take a bite out of their shoulder? It amounts to the same thing.

Man invented fire for a reason.

Re:Soylent Green is people!

[andreMA]

Ah yes.

Soylent Green. It's who's for dinner.

Prior Art

[rlp]

They've been serving this stuff in school lunch rooms across the nation for decades! Usually covered with cold greasy brown gravy.

yes the whole bass

[uberjoe]

Can I use my Super Bass-O-Matic 76?

Re:What is wrong with people?

[capillary tube]

God, yes. The last thing we need is the world's poor getting hold of a luxury like meat. I'm personally going to blow my brains out when the first malnourished Somalian takes a bite into that sinful essence of Satan.

Re:Society of people scared of acne...

[Ced_Ex]

Man invented fire for a reason.

On that note, man invented water because he was thirsty.

Makes sense?

Skewed statistics

[Mr. Underbridge]

Eat that fucking natural meat and cook it rare. When you are making some hamburger, wad up a ball, add some pepper and salt and eat it. I've done it since I was a kid and never had any ill effects.

100% of the people I've talked to who have played Russian roulette have never had any ill effects either.

Re:Whats with the Spin

[NitsujTPU]

That does bring to mind odd thoughts of vegans eating vat-grown hamburgers while watching humans kill each other on CNN.

Re:Official "DUPE" Thread

[utopianfiat]

If they admit that it's a dupe right in the article, does that make it a dupe?

If slashdot dupes an article in the middle of a forest, and nobody's around to yell "DUPE!", is it new news?

Re:I think they already did this...

[sdpuppy]

>"steaks are carved off the sides of the big cube of meat"

Uh...Isn't that how they make Gyros?

(There goes my lunch plan for today...)

Re:You Insensitive Clod!...

[falzer]

> As for truly artificial m**t, there wouldn't be any cruelty to animals in the production, but there must have been cruelty to animals in the initial discovery process {i.e. working out what it was supposed to taste like in the first place} which would be enough to put some people off.

What if a human volunteered his inital cells to grow meat in a vat? No cruelty. You can't get more ethical than that, and you would still get to eat Matt.

Now the name make sense

[mapmaker]

SPAceMeat

Re:You Insensitive Clod!...

[Walkiry]

> You might say this in jest, but I'd be interested in hearing what ethical vegetarians think about eating cruelty-free meat.

http://angryflower.com/vegeta.gif [angryflower.com]

Re:I'm curious

[Number6.2]

I'm afraid not. Most deli meat comes from certain cuts of the Spamalope. Shoulder cuts ususally taste like ham, limb and joint cuts taste like capricola and bolognia, and the haunch tastes like...spam.

The statement "This spam tastes like ass!" is therefore redundant.

Spamalope are native to the Hudson Valley area in New York (the state), which is why the best deli meat comes from New York City. The Yiddish word for the Spamalope is Delicatessen.

Once they covered the landscape from horizon to horizon, but their numbers have been drastically reduced. The only known free range spamalope are now controlled by a consortium of deli meat companies, particularly Hormel and Oscar Meyer.

It is rumored you can still hear the lonesome mating cry of the Spamalope in the wilds of Yonkers and Sheboygan, but most people write it off as just another Urban Ledgend.

Hope that clears things up.

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Re:I think they already did this...

[bcattwoo]

Not to mention that McDonald's has been using this technology for years. Mmmmm..... "All-beef" patty, "Special" sauce, lettuce (aka crunchy water), cheese?, pickles, onions, sesame seed bun....

Just a couple nitpicks. I believe the correct spelling for a couple of those items are: "all-beaf" patties, cheeze, and sesamee seed buns. They also provide sope for the employess to wash their hands with after using the bathroom and hare nets for the foud preparers.

Re:My opinion (as one of 'those' folk)

[ValuJet]

Stop, you're making me hungry.

Re:Additional Social Impact

[coastin]

But on the bright side, if you are lonely you could go next door to borrow a cup of meat.

Re:You Insensitive Clod!...

[mattsucks]

What if a human volunteered his inital cells to grow meat in a vat? No cruelty. You can't get more ethical than that, and you would still get to eat Matt.

I wouldn't recommend it.

Re:As a borderline vegan,

[indifferent children]

Could you eat it? Would you eat it?

Sure, but only if you can guarantee that those free-range humans didn't eat McDonald's food every week and inject themselves with questionable pharmaceuticals. If you had some pen-raised humans (and not our prisons, they have high incidence of AIDS and hard drug use) then that would be OK.

Re:You Insensitive Clod!...

[module0000]

Why don't we just kill & eat the vegans? I likes mine raw.

Seriously though

[commodoresloat]

Nobody wants "cruelty free" meat. The cruelty is where all the flavor comes from!

Sorry mate, no hard feelings, but...

[Damek]

There are plenty of technologically-induced distopias to worry about.

Yeah, like the horrid age of computers where people can't spell... ;-)