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  • Modern meat production is both expensive and very stressful for the environment and especially the animals. This is because consumers want the cheapest possible food, thereby pushing the farmers to constantly improve this process. Therefore, researchers are developing artificial meat in laboratories.
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      Economic perspective: Modern meat production more expensive than artificial meat production
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In Search of a Test-Tube Hamburger - TIME - 0 views

  • clamorous animal rights group PETA announced it would award $1 million to the first person to come up with a way to make commercially viable in vitro meat by 2012. The fake meat would have to be indistinguishable from the real deal, according to competition rules, and it would have to be cheap enough to succeed in the marketplace.
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      Organization willing to support the development of producing artificial meat
  • The technology to produce in vitro meat is almost in place, says Mironov, but "there are bottlenecks" in the process — namely scale and cost. Given the current technology, it would cost $1 million to turn out a 250g piece of beef. The problem boils down to producing a cell-culture medium in large enough quantities at a low enough price
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      Very expensive to develop technology of artificial meat production
  • The group concluded that it will be possible to produce in vitro meat in large quantities in the future, but not without funding to continue research.
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      Only with funding artificial meat can be produced in a large amount
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How do you like your meat? - FT.com - 0 views

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      Flavor perspective: Jeff Wood is a stakeholder disagreeing flavor of artificial meat: Taste different from actual meat
  • He has launched two new projects to cultivate fat tissue and increase the amount of myoglobin in meat. Myoglobin is by far the biggest iron carrier in muscle, which Post says is an important component of the taste
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      Flavor perspective: Mark Post is a stakeholder on the agreeing the flavor of artificial meat find ways to enhance the flavor of meat
  • If Post manages to produce a hamburger that looks and tastes like the real thing, then the project’s US backer may not be the only person keen to fund it through to our supermarket shelves.
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      Flavor can be enhanced under this condition!
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Inside the meat lab: the future of food | Science | The Observer - 0 views

  • These are made from animal-friendly artificial meat grown from stem cells: packed with Omega 3 and vitamins, they "crackle in your mouth". Yum.
  • The truth, though, is that artificial steak is still a way off. Pizza toppings are closer. The star of the Dutch research into in-vitro meat, Dr Mark Post, promised that the first artificial hamburger, made from 10bn lab-grown cells, would be ready for "flame-grilling by Heston Blumenthal" by the end of 2012.
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Artificial meat could slice emissions, say scientists | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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      The benefit to the environment
  • our research shows that cultured meat could be part of the solution to feeding the world's growing population and at the same time cutting emissions and saving both energy and water.
  • a much more efficient and environmentally friendly way of putting meat on the table
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  • provide cheap nutrition
  • improve animal welfare as well as potentially taking huge pressure off farmland around the world.
  • the first commercially lab-grown meat could be available within five years.
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      Artificial meat can meet the demand of meat around the globe
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      Other benefits
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Artificially Grown Lab Meat Could Reduce Emissions By 96% | Inhabitat - Sustainable Des... - 0 views

  • The researchers found that growing meat in a lab rather than slaughtering animals would generate only a tiny fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with conventional livestock production
  • It could also help to feed the world’s ever-growing population, which is currently suffering from a food crisis.
TAM SHARON

Artificial meat: A solution for growing demand? - 1 views

  • Synthetic meat involves taking a small amount of actual meat cells and using them to grow additional cells in a laboratory.
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      definition of artificial meat
  • Meat is not made of just one type of cell, it is made of several types, including muscle which gives it texture.
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      definition of artificial meat
  • In-vitro meat may provide a solution to the current resource intensive farming methods and a way to significantly reduce the environmental footprint including land, water and greenhouse gas emissions. It also addresses ethical concerns about the treatment of livestock.
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      importance of artificial meat
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  • to create “designer” meat products- those with less fat, more taste, greater protein or other desirable characteristics providing even greater variety and nutritional benefits than those currently available from meat.
echo ma

Stem Cell Pork: Scientists Grow Artificial Meat In Lab - 1 views

  • For the moment, the only types of meat they are proposing to make this way are processed meats like minced meat, hamburgers or hot dogs.
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      there's a limitation of the use of the artificial meat up to now
  • As long as it's cheap enough and has been proven to be scientifically valid, I can't see any reason people wouldn't eat it,
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      expert claims that it's cheap and scientificially valid and believe people will eat it
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      advantages of artificial meat based on stem cell tech
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      examples
  • Dutch scientists have been growing pork in the laboratory since 2006, and while they admit they haven't gotten the texture quite right or even tasted the engineered meat, they say the technology promises to have widespread implications for our food supply.
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      artificial meat and stem cell
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Guiltless Meat? Scientists Developing Stem Cell Sausage As First Artificial Meat | JONA... - 0 views

  • the first artificial meat — stem cell sausage grown in the lab without the need to slaughter animals.
  • The question is whether this means that vegetarians who now refuse to eat meat for philosophical reasons would be able to eat a ribeye without moral qualms.
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