Steak, Now For Vegans Too

Leave it up to the scientists of the Netherlands to come up with a way to make meat…

without an animal.

That’s right.

Researchers in the Netherlands have created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day want to eat it.

Okay, so soggy pork doesn’t exactly sound appetizing yet but I’ll be first in line to try a taste of test-tube meat.

So how do they do it?

The scientists extracted cells from the muscle of a live pig and then put them in a broth of other animal products. The cells then multiplied and created muscle tissue. They believe that it can be turned into something like steak if they can find a way to artificially “exercise” the muscle.

Artificially exercise… can’t they get one of those things you used to see on the infomercials? Those belts people would hook onto their abdomen muscles and it would deliver an electric shock and cause the muscle to tense up over and over?

I digress. So what are the opportunities this could provide? Well, vegetarians could probably eat meat, for one.

Vegetarian groups welcomed the news, saying there was “no ethical objection” if meat was not a piece of a dead animal.

And, you could grow meat without the need of pesky grazing areas or that whole bit where the animal suffers…

“This product will be good for the environment and will reduce animal suffering. If it feels and tastes like meat, people will buy it.
“You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals.”

So what have you? Will you eat artificial meat?

In other news, there’s still no cure for cancer.