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Would You Eat A Lab Grown Burger

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ludwig | 13:57 Mon 05th Aug 2013 | Food & Drink
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Apparently one's been unveiled. I don't if it was behind a little curtain or something.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22885969

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23576143
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I'd consider it.
If it tasted OK and was reasonably priced, yes, I would.
I'd give it a try and,like jim,if it tasted ok and the price was right I'd be happy enough with it.

I'd prefer mine to be born and raised on the gentle slopes of the
Newmarket Downs!
I'd rather not.
Why not? Arguably such a burger would be healthier, bred as pure meat and free from the need to be treated with endless antibiotics and pesticides, etc., that naturally-reared animals risk-- and at least you would know where it came from!
I know where my beef comes from.
If it never went Moo or Neigh.. then its not a Burger. Not for me thanks I've tried Quorn.
No thank you.
Would you eat one, Ludwig?
Like a shot.
Was it revealed from behind a beef curtain?
Well, it's presumably been cultivated in controlled, hygienic conditions.

As opposed to a slice off a cow's butt.
I love a bit of a cow's butt.
I would be more likely to eat it than real beef
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// Would you eat one, Ludwig? //

I don't think so. I think If meat became so scarce or expensive that this was how it had to be produced, I'd just become a vegetarian.
It's not the same as a quorn chicken breast or something, ie artficial meat - it's real meat, but artificially grown, which strikes me as very weird.

Me too.
OMG Captain Spod, that made me cry laughing.
From the descriptions this sounds like something that could be promising in the future, and if it ever does progress I wouldn't say no. Mind, I doubt it will ever beat the real thing for flavour, at least not for a long time. How can it? Flavours are likely to be far too complicated for any lab to replicate exactly.

So, in practice I don't think I would choose a lab burger over Aberdeen Angus. But in principle I don't see a problem with it.
Had to share this... stay with it, its what we can expect:

Jim, they could always inject it with antibiotics and pesticides to get an authentic flavour?

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