USDA Approves Sale of Cell-Cultivated Chicken Meat

Lilac

Lilac

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I just heard the news that the USDA has approved "Frankenchicken" for sale. It's a "meat" created in a laboratory created by using cells from a fertilized egg which is incubated & grown into large masses of meat. The end result is cut to look like real pieces of meat.

Would I eat it? Oh, h3ll no! I don't like any artificial products in my food & try to avoid it as much as possible. I think our health problems could be linked to what is being done to our food now if they really wanted to be honest about it. I want natural food that I know where it came from, be it plant or animal. I want to know what went into the raising of my food.

What's your thoughts?
 

I personally would be interested to know more about it especially knowing the inhumane ways animals are killed for our own personally enjoyment. Mankind has killed off 83% of the animal kingdom. We are now destroying our planet mainly due to raising, killing and preparing animals in order to eat. Iā€™m certainly not vegetarian or vegan but I often wish I could be.
 

How will we know the real chicken meat from the "Frankenchicken"?
Right now, they don't label beef so you know if it's from America or another country.
There is no more" USDA Inspected" or Choice, Prime or select labels.
They put the type of cut, the weight and price and that's it!
Living within 100 miles of the Southern border, I think most of the meat and chicken
comes from Mexico, where it's not inspected, and may carry disease.

Last time I was in the local grocery, I asked the young man who was putting out
the meat, if the tenderloin filets he had advertised were USDA choice. He said, "I'll go check."
When he went in the back, I heard this uproarious laughter! The head of the meat
department came out and said, "There is no way you could call this crap MEAT!"

So, How are we to know the difference if they don't label it?
 
Gaer said:
How will we know the real chicken meat from the "Frankenchicken"?
Right now, they don't label beef so you know if it's from America or another country.
There is no more" USDA Inspected" or Choice, Prime or select labels.
They put the type of cut, the weight and price and that's it!
Living within 100 miles of the Southern border, I think most of the meat and chicken
comes from Mexico, where it's not inspected, and may carry disease.

Last time I was in the local grocery, I asked the young man who was putting out
the meat, if the tenderloin filets he had advertised were USDA choice. He said, "I'll go check."
When he went in the back, I heard this uproarious laughter! The head of the meat
department came out and said, "There is no way you could call this crap MEAT!"

So, How are we to know the difference if they don't label it?
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Obviously, THEY know. So, why cant we?
 
PeppermintPatty said:
I personally would be interested to know more about it especially knowing the inhumane ways animals are killed for our own personally enjoyment. Mankind has killed off 83% of the animal kingdom. We are now destroying our planet mainly due to raising, killing and preparing animals in order to eat. Iā€™m certainly not vegetarian or vegan but I often wish I could be.
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Why can't you be vegetarian or vegan if you want to be? Just curious, don't feel that you have to answer this nosy question. :unsure:

Gaer said:
How will we know the real chicken meat from the "Frankenchicken"?
Right now, they don't label beef so you know if it's from America or another country.
There is no more" USDA Inspected" or Choice, Prime or select labels.
They put the type of cut, the weight and price and that's it!
Living within 100 miles of the Southern border, I think most of the meat and chicken
comes from Mexico, where it's not inspected, and may carry disease.

Last time I was in the local grocery, I asked the young man who was putting out
the meat, if the tenderloin filets he had advertised were USDA choice. He said, "I'll go check."
When he went in the back, I heard this uproarious laughter! The head of the meat
department came out and said, "There is no way you could call this crap MEAT!"

So, How are we to know the difference if they don't label it?
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Yikes! I don't eat nearly as much meat as I used to. This info makes me happier about that than I already was. :oops::eek::cautious:
 
Hell, if you look at how regular store bought chickens are raised and processed I don't know why this would be of more concern.

I am fine with it, and if it tastes as good, provides similar nutrition, and without some crazy additives I'd buy it, if cheaper than the regular ones.

I do however agree that it should be labeled, people need to know more about what they are eating. Calling it Frankenchicken would work, and would not keep me from buying...
 
Gaer said:
Last time I was in the local grocery, I asked the young man who was putting out
the meat, if the tenderloin filets he had advertised were USDA choice. He said, "I'll go check."
When he went in the back, I heard this uproarious laughter! The head of the meat
department came out and said, "There is no way you could call this crap MEAT!"
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An honest man!

However I fear his future in the supermarket business will be limited...
 
Alligatorob said:
An honest man!

However I fear his future in the supermarket business will be limited...
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Alligatorob said:
An honest man!

However I fear his future in the supermarket business will be limited...
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Well, This particular market, I KNOW, gets most of his meat from Mexico and all ungraded of what they call "select".
I drive to the next town to buy beef.
 
Myrtle said:
Why can't you be vegetarian or vegan if you want to be? Just curious, don't feel that you have to answer this nosy question. :unsure:


Yikes! I don't eat nearly as much meat as I used to. This info makes me happier about that than I already was. :oops::eek::cautious:
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I donā€™t mind answering at all.
Most of the food I eat isnā€™t animal based however I do like to eat fresh fish that I know has been caught humanely and know where itā€™s caught. My husband catches most of the fish we eat but heā€™s a HUGE meat eater. He once ate an entire half a ham in one sitting and itā€™s truly difficult refraining from eating meat when the person you are sharing a home with thrives off it. The idea of eating chilli with no beef in it boggles his mind. We truly are polar opposites.

And itā€™s not that Iā€™m against meat eating, I just think our world has become so overpopulated that it canā€™t sustain itself any more. We no longer know where are food is coming from and how itā€™s handled which Iā€™m not really ok with.

I am going to try harder. I truly like knowing exactly where my food is coming from but realize itā€™s not a possibility. Getting local free range eggs and chickens is one thing, the other foods I have no idea about.

Switching to vegetarian is becoming more of a possibility. I enjoyed making my own chicken broth though. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø
 
As of 2020, the US lost more than 11 million acres of farmland to development. A series of studies by the American Farmland Trust showed that agricultural land is rapidly being converted and fragmented to accommodate the development of urban and suburban low-density residential areas that include schools, shopping centers, hospitals, and other businesses and services.

The more land these projects eat, the less land America has for growing and raising the food we all eat. Plus, these construction projects can potentially pollute just as much of the farmland it borders as each of the projects need for these new residential areas. In other words, a modest 300 acre residential area will eat 300 acres of farmland and pollute an additional 300 acres.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
I donā€™t mind answering at all.
Most of the food I eat isnā€™t animal based however I do like to eat fresh fish that I know has been caught humanely and know where itā€™s caught. My husband catches most of the fish we eat but heā€™s a HUGE meat eater. He once ate an entire half a ham in one sitting and itā€™s truly difficult refraining from eating meat when the person you are sharing a home with thrives off it. The idea of eating chilli with no beef in it boggles his mind. We truly are polar opposites.

And itā€™s not that Iā€™m against meat eating, I just think our world has become so overpopulated that it canā€™t sustain itself any more. We no longer know where are food is coming from and how itā€™s handled which Iā€™m not really ok with.

I am going to try harder. I truly like knowing exactly where my food is coming from but realize itā€™s not a possibility. Getting local free range eggs and chickens is one thing, the other foods I have no idea about.

Switching to vegetarian is becoming more of a possibility. I enjoyed making my own chicken broth though. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø
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Ok, I know about meat eaters. About 2 weeks after we were married I baked a whole chicken and hubby was really enthusiastic about it when he smelled it cooking. He said he could eat the entire chicken which led me to laugh and say I didn't believe he could. He did. He ate every smidgen of it with the exception of two small slices of breast that I ate. Still eating half a ham wins over a chicken, IMO. :ROFLMAO:

I still like meat in things like casseroles even though I may only eat a little of it the meat flavors the chili, soup or a casserole. But big hunks of steaming meat are not something I can face anymore. I will sometimes eat a hamburger if the meat is good quality, thin and very well done. Still, I'm not a vegetarian. It's not about that. I'm not sure what it's about but my tastes have changed over the years.
 
Would I eat it? Oh, h3ll YES!

It is the certain future for we humans that we will be growing food via genetic processes without having to use live animals. Eventually, immensely better for Earth environments and life. Additionally, nutrients, medicines, and other valuable organic substances will be grown with genetically modified plants.

This is also a possible source of the Tree of Life story in Genesis scripture if as I lean, Moses was relating as a science primitive about what was communicated to him as to why "God" was there. Advanced intelligent life, especially UIEs would obviously have vastly greater command over DNA and as such would likely generate nutrients, medicines, and other valuable organic substances so. Possibly both for their own use as well as secret humans they worked with. It is almost certain the appearance of UIE's would not be like we Earth monkeys, so they would have instead used secret humans for such tasks in order to not cause alarm.

Such direct processes are also the likely source of "manna" in Exodus. The fact that religious narratives created by primitive humans interpreted that scripture differently reflects what I believe about the flawed doctrine of inerrancy. Instead if UIE's, they likely recorded "videos" how Moses interpreted whatever, then had a good laugh,. UIEs would have strong reasons to not correct misinterpretations of primitives. Thus in the future they could not be blamed for misleading Moses nor in like manner much that was later manipulated by Levites and rulers.
 
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chic said:
Soylent Green?
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Soylent Green is a movie from the early 70s about ....well, Soylent green.

"Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green - an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public. Thorn is the tough homicide detective who stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him."

It's a good movie and I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone who hasn't seen it. But the "actual ingredients" are terrifying! You really don't want to know.... o_O

 

USDA Approves Sale of Cell-Cultivated Chicken Meat​

Yum Yum..... sounds delicious does it not? Not such a big jump from what our processed food is now. It is already filled with chemicals. We have been Guinea pigs for over a century.
 
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