Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Blog 4: Growing Artificial Meat in Labs to End Hunger
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/31/growing-meat-labs-end-hunger/
Recently, scientists have developed the idea that "cultured"(artificial) meat will end our world's hunger and also be much less expensive. In other words, they have been creating genetically engineered meat that apparently can be designed to your liking. Scientists say that they "envision football field-sized buildings filled with large bioreactors, or bioreactors the size of a coffee machine in grocery stores, to manufacture what they call "charlem" -- "Charleston engineered meat.". In my opinion, the idea of growing meat in a lab is unethical. I mean, its obviously unnatural, especially because you don't know how it is grown. It might have chemicals, or other toxins and ingredient that just aren't healthy. Also, isn't meat supposed to contain proteins that our bodies need to survive? I understand that it could possibly solve some of our world's large economic crises. But is it really worth all the risks? Some people may not agree, though I'm sure the idea of genetically engineered meat is both unethical and at too high of a risk. I mean, think about this, who would want to eat artificial meat?
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In fact, we already eat artificial meat but we don't know, or we don't care. It's not the same kind of "cultured" meat but finally it's maybe worst when you see how they do industrial nuggets or things like that today.
ReplyDeleteArtifical meat could be a radically different process for food production, you just have to see that in a different way than "chemical meat made in laboratory".
In fact beer or yoghurt use the same process than cultures meat : the fermentation, ative process than developp the product.
After technical solution will be found, you'll see that the marketing will change the way you can see it. It will just be a new kind of nugget.
Sorry for my english, i'm french : )