Aborted fetuses used to create bacon and discharged placenta used to create potted meat.

'Ummm, we tried that one time with chickens, it didn't turn out that well'



/hot.

Dance piggies! (new window)
Turn dem speaks up yo!

Bacon trollmitter?

brap: Ugh, pork scallops.

Oh, I disagree



/hot like microwaved petri-food

I'm sure somehow this is Obama's fault.

or...

Is there nothing bacon can't do?

Tough choice.

/drtfa

I'm a little worried about the plan with the Omega-3. At this rate, it won't be long 'til we've got Omega-13, and not even Commander Taggert wanted that stuff around!

/well, not 'til the end, anyway.

uncletogie: I'm a little worried about the plan with the Omega-3. At this rate, it won't be long 'til we've got Omega-13, and not even Commander Taggert wanted that stuff around!

/well, not 'til the end, anyway.

Taggart, damnit. FTFM.

Well, it can't be any worse than the ole MRE dehydrated meat I ate 20 years ago.

Space Gaines Burgers, FTW!

Title had me ready for a run to the grocery store...article not so much.

Actually I am glad to see this finally happenning. I think they will fine most of the difficulty will be in the natural growth that comes from working muscles and how fat spreads in an animal as it lives its normal life. Ironically I think they will have to excersize their lab-bacon to achieve much of the natural consistancy.

Mmmm...I could go for a big glass of bacon soda right about now.

The texture of a raw or barely-seared scallop is a sublime thing.

Lab-grown pork would likely be trichonella-free and could potentially be quite tasty.

The combination of risk-free pork with scallop texture could be the world's greatest piece of sashimi.

FTGodWin: Well, it can't be any worse than the ole MRE dehydrated meat I ate 20 years ago.

Space Gaines Burgers, FTW!

C'mon, they're not that bad. You make it sound like it's be a meal rejected by an Ethiopian.

Should try dumplings.

In the U.S., similar research was funded by NASA, which hoped astronauts would be able to grow their own meat in space
I love you, science.

Horrifyingly AWESOME!

Once the Japanese get ahold of this technology they'll start growing tentacles. That's when the REAL fun begins!

Aborted fetuses used to create bacon?

Why? They're fine just as they are.

"In the U.S., similar research was funded by NASA, which hoped astronauts would be able to grow their own meat in space."

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Didn't know they let FOX commentators access Fark at work, subby. Nice.

One step away from Soylent Green...

MorePeasPlease: Aborted fetuses used to create bacon?

Why? They're fine just as they are.

Someone cue the South Park Christopher Reeves sucking on a fetus for stem cells pic.

/hot like sizzlin bacon

As a vegetarian, I would be willing to eat this lab grown meat, should they ever get the flavor and texture right, along with the potential cost.

Also, remember that episode of Better Off Ted? Man, that was funny.

brap: Take my wife please.

I thought I said risk-free.

JonnyBGoode: One step away from Soylent Green...

Is it still soylent green if it's grown in a pitri dish? Technically it's not people.

Atharaenea: As a vegetarian, I would be willing to eat this lab grown meat, should they ever get the flavor and texture right

As a vegetarian ... how do you know what the texture is supposed to be? (just sayin')

Soylent Green is PIG FETUSES!

Lord Farkwad: "In the U.S., similar research was funded by NASA, which hoped astronauts would be able to grow their own meat in space."

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Zero G Falcon Punch?

I don't care how many children you have to kill. Just give me the farkin' bacon

Certain Wegmans stores have a "pick your own hot food" sort of market in their store, where you put food in a box and the price is according to weight. Sometimes, the Chinese section has bacon-wrapped scallops.

Since the price of the food is by weight, not what you get, you can get those for about $7.00 a pound and not have to worry about cooking them. Just a little bit of baking if you're having it later, just to warm it up.

Chocolate Llama: Atharaenea: As a vegetarian, I would be willing to eat this lab grown meat, should they ever get the flavor and texture right

As a vegetarian ... how do you know what the texture is supposed to be? (just sayin')

Because I was not born a vegetarian.

I envision this saga ending with a Congressman getting sick during hearings on the newest synthetic flavor...

Atharaenea:
Because I was not born a vegetarian.

Fair enough :-)

Atharaenea: As a vegetarian, I would be willing to eat this lab grown meat, should they ever get the flavor and texture right, along with the potential cost.

I imagine that if they do figure this out properly and it's good enough that the die-hard meat eaters like it fine, we can all be a planet of happy omnivores with better things to fight about. First it takes animal suffering out of the equation. Then, they can figure out how to make meat healthier as the article suggests by replacing one type of fat for another during the grow. After that you've got pretty much no reason to stick to just veggies.

I read about this before. I'm still unenthusiastic until they get it working. I thought it might be something about them getting it right, but clearly it is not.
Regardless, I hope we harvest and store some panda stem cells so that I can have my panda-burgers in the future.

Great. All the predictions of the future I grew up with; moon colonies, flying cars, massive desert arcologies, free jumpsuits for every citizen...and we get the one I wanted least: vat meat.

dahmers love zombie: brap: Ugh, pork scallops.

Have you ever wrapped nice big scallops anything in bacon and cooked them over a charcoal fire? That's pretty epic food.

So that's where the bacon comes from on the fast food breakfast sammiches.

Came for multiple Better Off Ted references.

Leaving extremely disappointed.

/*sniff*

Baby, lettuce, and tomato sammiches anyone?