Would you eat cloned meat?

[Jokerfiend]

Another thread got me wondering...

Say you were in a restaurant and ordered a burger. It's the same as any other burger you've had with the exception that the meat was grown in a lab instead of in an animal. Would you eat it?

And for certain vegetarians or vegans, if you knew no animal was harmed in its making, would you eat it?

I would need to make sure testing was done to ensure that protein, or prions, didn't lead to a mad-cow type disease, also known as Prions Disease.

Once you read about Prions, you can never go back. It will scare the shit out of you.

[Raeph]

If memory serves there was a BBC show a few months back that had a few testers that ate cloned burgers on their show. They had two complaints; meat was dry (lab grown has no fat integrated into the meat like natural beef does) and the texture was not what they were expecting.

I think I'd be fine eating it though I guess I'd want to add olive oil or something to it to moisten the final product.

I'm not a big meat eater anyway; more of a chicken and fish guy.

[unbound]

I have no issues with cloned and/or lab grown meat. I do have one single concern...part of the reason I still eat meat is that meat is the most micro-nutritionally (i.e. vitamins and minerals) complete food for humans (you have to eat multiple other vegetables and/or fruits to get the same micro-nutrients). What I do not know yet is whether the lab grown meat contains the same micro-nutrients. I don't need my meat to be as micro-nutritionally barren as the already existing highly refined food at the grocery store (about 75% of they sell today).

[Karrotlord]

I can see why you'd think that, but Veridian Dynamics solved that problem.

I'm intrigued. Could you provide a link?

[Annu]

Of course I would.

If it is proven to be the same consistence, I'm pretty sure it contains less antibiotics than real meat. You also don't have a risk that it contains scrappy, BSE and so on.

[Twinkelle]

Yeah, I would. There's very little I wouldn't at least try.

[belfpala]

I think I'd be fine eating it though I guess I'd want to add olive oil or something to it to moisten the final product.

Butter. Freeze, then do a tiny dice. Gently mix with the product, cook immediately.

But then... can they clone mammary glands?

[Puupi]

Cultured protein grown in a lab =/= cloned meat.

[Arenis]

Well yes, because it's exactly the same meat. The only difference is the way the gametocyte came to be. For the rest, the growth process, metabolism and whatever, are identical to "normal" animals.

[Noxina]

Could they clone mammoth meat, so I could try that then?

[Dug]

We already eat meat pumped with all sorts of crap so I don't see the difference in lab grown or "natural". On second thought, the lab grown might even be cleaner since they can grow it exactly as they want it without relying on growth hormones.

[Rotted]

Yes I would but Id experiment with how I eat meat now.

Long story short, health reasons every so often I have to do a stint of being vegetarian

so yea I'd have to eat it and see what happens over the next 24 hours basically

[alex14]

Yes, why not, I mean who can guarantee You what You eat now?

100% juices, organic food... ye right, just taking more money from naive ppl.

[StationaryHawk]

If it's proven to be safe to eat, then sure.

[Drungan]

If it is safe and taste close to or better then the real thing .... sure

[Aphrel]

If it taste the same and contain the same nutritions then yes id eat it. If it was cheaper (wich is plausable) id order it over normal meat.

[HinD]

Sure, why the heck not.