• eddstarr88
    • 1 year 6 months ago
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    		 I've been calling them "cloneburgers" but the real term is "in vitro meat" or "cultured meat" processed in controlled conditions like factory production.

    Believe it or not, my school hosted a presentation back in 1968 from NASA @ Langley on the future of food. The scientists asked "how much beef do you get for every 10 pounds of grain?" He showed us kids a 10 lb. bag of grain.

    Then the presenter held up a 1 lb. package of hamburger. That's all you get from that giant bag of grain, not to mention all the gallons of water it takes to get a steer to market ready.

    Lab grown meat made the news recently. Looks like test tube burgers may be coming soon. Sooo, any volunteers on Retro Junk?

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    • stake n sheak
      • 1 year 6 months ago
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      		 I'll try it. I would need to know more first, but the concept has positive possibilities. Of course, so did GMO vegetables when I first heard of them and now I find them abhorrent.

      But I will not try this.
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      • eddstarr88
        • 1 year 6 months ago
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        		 It sure seems to me S n S that pre-packaged processed food already has crossed the line and may properly be called "ready-poop", lol.
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        • stake n sheak
          • 1 year 6 months ago
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          		 I was looking at freevintageposters.com the other day and saw this:



          I said, wow, I wish FDA was still like this.
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          • eddstarr88
            • 1 year 6 months ago
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            		 That poster is a great find. Kinda reminds me of the way my grandma used to scold me for wasting food.

            It's feels weird to read responses over test-tube meat that sound just like comments made by my classmates over the NASA/Langley overpopulation presentation back in 1968.

            Remember back in those days an overpopulated world would run out of food by 1990. Lots of voices said world-wide famine was our future unless we change the way we manage the world's food supply.

            Funny how not much seems to have changed in any practical way all these years later. Memorial Day grilling still has the same burgers, ribs and chicken; along with salads, chips and drinks. Those NASA scientists I saw predicted a future of food pills made of vegetable protein.

            I'm willing to give test-tube BBQ ribs a try, with a side of simulated coleslaw.
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