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Published May
2002
LGVN Animal News - Meat-like Alternatives
Dutch
Scientists Create "Animal Free Real Meat"
A Dutch scientist
has been growing huge quantities of real meat, produced from a small
sample of cells taken from a single animal.
Samples of animal
cells are cultivated on a matrix of collagen and muscle cells taken
from unharmed animals. These cells then grow and multiply on the
collagen. The inventor, Wiete Westerhof, from the University of
Amsterdam, says that the product will have the taste of lean meat,
but animals will not have to suffer. Pork, beef, chicken and all
other kinds of animal and fish meats will be able to be created
in large vats.
Looking-Glass
says:
If
this becomes commercially successful as a product, could vegetarians
and animal rights campaigners finally see the end of factory farming
and other terrible abuse of "live" animals for human consumption?
Moral
ethics ... what moral ethics?
For the carnivorous mainstream who otherwise eat meat but turn a
blind eye to the suffering caused to animals, this invention could
be the dumbing-down answer - a switch to animal-free beef steaks
without even noticing!
Science
fiction and fact drawing ever closer.
In Star Trek, the crew's dinners seems to appear from thin air via
food replicators in which atoms and matter are shuffled around to
create "animal free" meat dishes and all kinds of exotic
food and beverages.
Now that third millenium science is able to create animal-free meat
... what next?
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