http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/01/16/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-cloned-food/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:48:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/01/16/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-cloned-food/#comment-2927 Reality Check: Biotech | Reality Base | Discover Magazine Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:47:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/01/16/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-cloned-food/#comment-2927 [...] Bioengineered Meat Meat is in trouble. Between inhumane farming practices, an increase in livestock-borne diseases, and the problems inherent in generating enough beef, pork, and chicken to feed an ever-growing population, a carnivorous future isn’t looking rosy. So leave it to scientists to begin developing lab-grown meat, created from cells of living animals. The “lab meat movement” has made “glacial progress” in the past few years, to the point where PETA has offered a $1 million prize to the first scientist/s who can “produce commercially viable quantities” of it by 2012. After that, all that’s left is finding a way to rid consumers of the “ick factor.” [...] […] Bioengineered Meat Meat is in trouble. Between inhumane farming practices, an increase in livestock-borne diseases, and the problems inherent in generating enough beef, pork, and chicken to feed an ever-growing population, a carnivorous future isn’t looking rosy. So leave it to scientists to begin developing lab-grown meat, created from cells of living animals. The “lab meat movement” has made “glacial progress” in the past few years, to the point where PETA has offered a $1 million prize to the first scientist/s who can “produce commercially viable quantities” of it by 2012. After that, all that’s left is finding a way to rid consumers of the “ick factor.” […]

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