Growing fish and other animal meat

[gopunk]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/03/22/fish.food/index.html



<< For the experiment, Benjaminson and colleagues sliced up muscle from large goldfish and placed them in a vat of nutrient-rich liquid. Within a week, the fish nuggets had become 16 percent bigger.

After frying the chunks in a sauce of olive oil, garlic, lemon and pepper, the team presented their creation to fellow staffers at Touro College in New York.

"They said it looked like fish and smelled like fish, but they didn't go as far as tasting it," Benjaminson said in a statement. >>




i think this is cool, but... wouldn't it get 16 percent larger if you had just placed it in water?

 

[kei]

aack!
this is the nutrient rich media:

"He acknowledges that some diners might consider the current concoction
unappetizing: fetal bovine serum, which is extracted from the blood of unborn calves. The liquid is a staple food for hungry cells in lab experiments. But there are concerns that the substance might transmit mad cow disease to humans."

 

[b0mbrman]

Uh...I'm not too cool with this. Though poorer countries might be interested in something like this...

 

[rgwalt]

Soylant Green is PEOPLE!

Ryan

 

[jhu]

But there are concerns that the substance might transmit mad cow disease to humans

that's only if the serum already contains the prions

 

[SociallyChallenged]

<<i think this is cool, but... wouldn't it get 16 percent larger if you had just placed it in water? >>


I think the nutrient crap makes it taste good too...water would make it soggy and gross.

 

[Pocatello]

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