Would you eat artificial meat?

THE next time you’re about to bite into a hamburger, take a moment to consider the resources that went into making it. In recent Solve X talk, Andras Forgacs laid out all the statistics, and explained how tantalizingly close we are to a more sustainable method of meat production. Basically, humanity may soon be 3D printing meat instead of growing it in an animal.

              Forgacs starts by explaining just how costly a single quarter-pound beef patty is to produce. For that one serving, 6.7lbs of grains, 600 gallons of water and 75 square feet of grazing land were used. Now multiply that 1000 to find your (approximate) impact — the average American eats over 220lbs of meat each year. Additionally, at least 18% of greenhouse gas emissions are due to meat production. All this for one burger?

As economic opportunities continue to lift populations around the world into the middle class, demand for meat is rising. With 7 billion people on the planet, we are sustained by 60 billion land animals. That would be ecologically devastating, so something has to change.

Advances in bioengineering have been able to produce meat analogs, but the process has always been stupendously expensive , and the results were only passable. It turns out that it’s actually very difficult to match the taste and texture of animal muscle tissue by growing cells in the lab.

              The marbling of fats and connective tissue is integral to the experience of eating a burger. Applying 3D printing, you get the burgeoning field bioprinting.

              Researchers are working with cell aggregates as the medium in bioprinting (as opposed to plastics in regular 3D printing). Layer after layer of cells can be laid down to more closely resemble the genuine article. Researchers can basically build a block of muscle that never lived.

- Geek

    People’s Journal Tonight

   Friday, February 15, 2013

on my side…

              Technology shots a blind idea for some people who are disregarding the nature as the co-existence of modern world. We probably don’t know the importance of our environment when every time we woke up we are seeking for the comfort of our “gadgets” and not for the beauty of the nature outside our four wall.

              It is just disheartening to know that many people think of alternatives even if it cost a lot of money to do the procedures. Like on the above article, even a piece of meat has been targeted by the stupid charlatans to have it’s equivalent on artificial one. Do you people, on your normal mind want to eat an experimented meat? NO.

All of us know that eating meat frequently is probably not a good idea for a healthy living. But consider this as a bargain. What do you choose, a fresh meat from the fresh poultry animal or a meat that has been growing from a faked cells inside an isolated laboratory? Think.

Instead of thinking ways of improving the productions of fresh-from-the-farm-animals, they taking their time just to have another addition to the augmenting numbers of technology products which in return, has dangerously affected the environment we live in. It is more harmful than the 18% greenhouse gas emission on normal meat production,

Now, would you like to eat artificial meat?