Lab-grown meat takes one step closer to hitting supermarket shelves

[fuzzybuddy]

You capture an animal, kill it, bleed it, skin it, gut it, cook it, and you think processed food is 'yukky'?

 

[HoneyNut]

Seems to me that most things created in a lab are not found to be bad until way down the road. ...Eating something that is created in a lab, not sure that's a great idea for a full diet plan.

Most things created in a lab are synthetic (like the medicines), but since they are growing meat using actual meat cells I don't think there would be any side effects other than the ones we already are familiar with from eating meat. Inside living bodies is kind of like a lab I suppose, because the food we eat is broken down into chemicals and washed around the body in the bloodstream, at least that is what I think feeds our muscles.

 

[Nemo2]

It's all starting to sound a little Soylent Green-ish to me.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

They don't have to worry about me buying that stuff. I never buy beef, rarely buy chicken anymore and when I do...I can tell it's a chicken's legs or thighs (only thing I buy) or that it's a Cornish hen. I do buy Jenny O turkey burgers though. My son doesn't eat meat and only certain fish. Much of the fruit I've had doesn't even taste like fruit anymore...just blah. My son did bring home some really good pears and apples a couple of weeks ago though. Problem is, I prefer organic apples and they weren't organic. He refuses to eat any fruit that's supposed to have seeds but doesn't. I teased him that he has that stipulation about fruit but buys non organic apples, which are on the dirty dozen list (several pesticides found). I caved and ate a couple of those apples and a couple of pears, which were from a produce market. Next batch of pears he brought from the supermarket have no taste and the organic apples were decent but not as good as the other ones. He didn't see organic pears in either store. https://www.elizabethrider.com/dirty-dozen-clean-15/

 

[John cycling]

@OneEyedDiva Thank you for posting that listing.

Here's the Environmental Working Group's full list of 31 pesticide laden crops. <--
Plus raisins <-- would be #1 worst if they were included. The clean 15 are at the bottom of the list in reverse.

 

[Della]

They don't have to worry about me buying that stuff. I never buy beef, rarely buy chicken anymore and when I do...I can tell it's a chicken's legs or thighs (only thing I buy) or that it's a Cornish hen. I do buy Jenny O turkey burgers though. My son doesn't eat meat and only certain fish. Much of the fruit I've had doesn't even taste like fruit anymore...just blah. My son did bring home some really good pears and apples a couple of weeks ago though. Problem is, I prefer organic apples and they weren't organic. He refuses to eat any fruit that's supposed to have seeds but doesn't. I teased him that he has that stipulation about fruit but buys non organic apples, which are on the dirty dozen list (several pesticides found). I caved and ate a couple of those apples and a couple of pears, which were from a produce market. Next batch of pears he brought from the supermarket have no taste and the organic apples were decent but not as good as the other ones. He didn't see organic pears in either store. https://www.elizabethrider.com/dirty-dozen-clean-15/

Good list, Diva. We do eat a lot of apples and celery, but I now do what my mother would have thought wasteful and cut off the bottom four inches of the celery bunch and that little poison pocket at the top of the apple.

My son is vegan so we've tried all the fake things like the Impossible Burger and tofu-hot dogs and decided we'd rather just stay with the beans and rice and veg. He's tried not to be pushy about his beliefs, but I can't help but see some of the Youtube videos about factory farming and it's gradually caused me to cut way down on animal products.