Are people eating pork hamburgers? I ask merely for information.


/Two all BEEF patties...

Tastes like... despair.

TheShadow: If you think vegetables are a problem for E coli and listeria infections, try eating meat that was produced without an immune system.

Hence the sterile conditions it is grown in.

I'd eat it, as long as the energy and cost it took to grow and manufacture was less than the energy and cost to raise a pig the old fashioned way.

//I'll never have to eat it.

Bah da-da-da-daaaa....I'm porking it......

GungFu: I don't understand why we can't just eat child orphans.

Because Texas needs them to execute.

lennavan: lilplatinum: Plus, you already have retards all over the world who shun any "GM"foods no matter how small the man made influence is, you think theres going to be a rush on the tank grown meat?

Those retards also have no idea odds are pretty farking good they're already eating GM foods.

GMO hysteria has gotten so bad that people are demanding no hybrid plants as well(because they don't know the difference between hybrid and GMO), and then biatching that their tomatoes and peppers were not as good as last year.

I want to eat Enviropig pork. Their saliva has been altered to help breakdown plant phosphorus, the effect of which is their shiat isn't quite so loaded with phosphorus any longer, which in the long term will lead to less problems related to run-off. Not only that, but the alteration at this point appears stable and is inheritable.

I mean, yeah, we're doing this because of factory farming methods cramming as many animals in as little space as they can get away with, but people want their cheap food, and most especially want their bacon.

Oh, and a student at my alma mater is using a sterile grass from India to clean up excess antibiotics in the run off from cattle farms.
//No reason for that last part, just excited about applying science to fix the problems we are causing ourselves while improving our lives as well.

The dream is to one day create a cheeseburger that is grown inside the can. It doesn't even see daylight for the first time until you eat it. Then it sees daylight again as you retch it back up into the kitchen sink in panicked heaves.

If they can make meat that actually tastes as good or better than real stuff then it will be a great day for all. We all know that rearing animals for food has its problems, but there's simply no way we can do with out meat. We eat meat, it's what we do, it tastes delicious. There will always be a market for old fashioned original meat, and a slow uptake of this stuff if it becomes a reality, but I hope it does, and I hope it's great.

Mr Guy: lennavan: lilplatinum: Plus, you already have retards all over the world who shun any "GM"foods no matter how small the man made influence is, you think theres going to be a rush on the tank grown meat?

Those retards also have no idea odds are pretty farking good they're already eating GM foods.

All food is genetically modified. We should all know, from common sense, that the fact that people are biatching all over about "heirloom varieties" is because we've bred entirely new food sources from the original food sources for hundreds of years deliberately, and thousands of years by our nature of putting away the best seeds for future years.

Bananas shouldn't all be large, fleshy, and yellow. Apples shouldn't all be firm, small and red. Good luck on finding any kind of original wild strains of potato, corn, or soy...

I can get you the corn, that's the easy one.

Potatoes... give me time. I know people. Fark soy though, blech.

This corn was and is awesome BTW. (ok, it's not a land race corn exactly, but it is a pretty good flour corn). Plus no one else in my neighborhood grows corn, so any cross with hybrid sweet corn is pretty negligible.

lennavan: Mr Guy: All food is genetically modified.

No, not all.

Mr Guy: is because we've bred

Breeding is not the same as what we do with GMOs. I get what you're saying but I don't think you're helping by conflating the two ideas.


meat0918: Plus no one else in my neighborhood grows corn, so any cross with hybrid sweet corn is pretty negligible.

No, that's not the correct corn. That corn was bred that way.

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Google Teosinte.

I though I mentioned land race, not teosinte. I must have removed it during an edit. My bad.

I don't typically take genetically modified in the broader sense of exploit evolution to breed plants and animals we want, but the only direct modification of the genome.

We still expose seed to mutagenic chemicals like sodium azide as well as radiation to get new varieties because it's more socially acceptable than amalgamating all the traits you want from different varieties(all within the same species mind you) using GM techniques.

Plus you still have the good old fashioned novelty of open pollination. I have a cross between a Thai chile and a Jalapeno I am hoping reproduces the same fruit next year.

lennavan: I don't know how true that really is. Normal GMO techniques require us to know something (or a lot) about what we're doing. Random mutagenesis doesn't really require any knowledge whatsoever.

The sense I get from agriculture people is they all accept and know the general public is stupid so they do whatever they want. I mean seriously, look at "organic" stuff. What people believe about "organic" versus what's actually true. I buy organic tomatoes because I don't want chemicals on my food! Surprise!

Yeah, especially since organic does not mean "no pesticide" or "no spray"

I think I can safely assume I don't need to list the pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc. listed as organic use approved.