Cloned Beef Coming Soon? 529
An anonymous reader writes "According to this article at Popular Science cloned beef may be coming soon. It talks about using meat within 48 hours of slaughter to allow cloning the best possible specimens, something that is not possible to determine while the animal is still alive. Apparently only 1 in 8000 animals is truly the best. Personally I'd love to see us progress to the point where it was possible to grow just the meat itself without the animal. That would end all the ethical issues with raising an animal for food, potential issues from mad cow disease, bird flu and whatever the next media induced panic is."
works for everything! (Score:2, Funny)
pr0n (Score:4, Funny)
That sounds like the plot of a b-horror-porn movie starring a resurrected John Holmes.
Re:Just you wait.... (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory mangled quotation (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory mangled quotation (Score:3, Funny)
With some extra sauce please.
Re:Finally, our own meat. (Score:5, Funny)
Sincerely,
The Soylent Corporation
Re:Ethical issues? (Score:3, Funny)
Forget beef... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Panic! (Score:5, Funny)
Steaks made from clones.
Can't you just see the horror movie?
Dr. Jackson stared in horror at the meat growing vats as he slowly realized what had happened. He felt growing nausea, his stomach threatening to turn his delicious former meal into a mouth-fired projectile.
His assistant saw the look on his. "Dr. Jackson -- what is it? What's the matter?"
He slowly turned to her. He couldn't help but imagine the juicy, tender beef passing her lips -- or what he thought was beef.
"My God, Janice. It all makes sense. When I added the beef cells to the cloning solution -- the cut on my finger -- the blood, the blood THE BLOOD --" he couldn't continue.
"No!" Janice screamed, her hands holding her mouth. "But -- that was months ago --"
Dr. Jackson slowly nodded. "The entire East Coast has been eating -- ME!"
BtAF has already covered this... (Score:3, Funny)
Delicacy (Score:2, Funny)
This can lead to only one thing... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tofu? (Score:3, Funny)
http://angryflower.com/vegeta.gif [angryflower.com]
Re:Ethical issues? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Forget beef... (Score:2, Funny)
Personally, I'd Like to See This Progress to... (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory HHGTG reference (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tofu? (Score:3, Funny)
Free Waterfall Junior: "No it isn't. We taught a lion to eat tofu."
Lion: *cough* *pause* *cough*
Re:I for one.. (Score:3, Funny)
As a vagitarian I... oh never mind.
Long Pig (Score:5, Funny)
Let's take it to next logical step. Why not clone human flesh? I mean after all there'd be no ethical issues involved with it. They could take those new ethicly created stem cell lines to make human meat. And since breast milk is the best, why clone giant boobies to produce all of our dairy needs. No I see no ethical problems at all.
Re:Panic! (Score:5, Funny)
Bravo! I'd definitely go see that movie! Make sure Samuel L. Jackson stars.
OTOH, if and when human muscle can be grown in a vat, will the taboo against eating human flesh fade away? After all, it's not hurting anyone... I can imagine it starting as an outre stunt, and then becoming an underground thing, before eventually moving on to become a minor fashion, and eventually becoming a fact of life. Imagine the marketing they could do at the grocery store: "Genuine Paris Hilton breasts and thighs, $3.99/lb"
Re:Tofu? (Score:4, Funny)
It would probably be more economic to just grow vat people with simple feeding requirements and a finger to push the factory button. That way the upper class could more efficiently use their vast resources to maintain their inefficient, old-fashioned naturally-grown selves
Hey! (Score:2, Funny)
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Corn-Beef coming soon (Score:3, Funny)
Dang dang. Why isn't it coming soon?
Re:Panic! (Score:2, Funny)
Steaks on a Plane!
Re:Tofu? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finally, our own meat. (Score:2, Funny)
I love this idea, I would much rather make my own meat than take it from a nice, innocent bovine who happens to be using it at the moment.
All of my beef comes from mean, guilty bovines that are no longer using it themselves.
Re:Tofu? (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer imitation tofu (Score:5, Funny)
Won't kill the market for old-fashioned cowmeat (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe I'm thinking too cyberpunk here.
Re:Tofu? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Panic! (Score:2, Funny)
Cool! Dinner for 89 cents!
Steaks on a Plane? (Score:2, Funny)