“It doesn't sound very appetising, but I have eaten Quorn (a synthetic meat made from vegetable matter/soya) and it doesn't taste like real meat,it is acceptable as long as it is not sold as meat.

However I don't think we need to get too excited about this new product; since there is no blood in the meat, it is pinkish-yellow in colour. It could take up to 20 years to produce the meat efficiently and on a large scale, and that's if the research has unlimited funds.
http://tinyurl.com/6oo3y2w
Would you pay $330K for a burger?”

“Doubt they will taste much worse than the cardboard that McDonalds dish up.”

“Evening all,

Look on the bright side,you can fix anything with mustard,but you can still get Mad Cow Disease !

Lord Whopping Foghole... Vegetarian except for salmon steaks..”

“@omrlp as this substance is grown in a Petri dish, it will never have come into contact with Mad Cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy). There is no possibility of it ever infecting this synthetic meat product because it will have never eaten anything.”

“According to the 'experts', the era of cheap meat is drawing to a close, perhaps synthetic foods will be our only choice due to the cost of the real thing. However, not too many years ago, hydroponics was claimed as the farming method of the future, but that seems to have faded into obscurity. It might well be that petri dish farming will suffer a similar fate. I suspect that there will be an increase in vegetable synthetics, and who knows future generations, raised on notdogs and shamburgers will find fresh foods quite unpalatable. I already notice this trend among the young.”

“smick9, Hydroponic farming has certainly not faded into obscurity. The BBC recently ran several programmes on the subject like this one (Country File) http://tinyurl.com/7ynoqhq
Locally we have this http://tinyurl.com/6use4se
The Grow Room, one of the UKʼs biggest and best suppliers of hydroponic growing equipment.

And more can be found on the Internet: http://tinyurl.com/4ctlma6

http://tinyurl.com/6xmqd2q
Is This the Future of Farming?”

“In progressive, forward thinking countries throughout the world the commercial hydroponics industry has increased 4-5 fold during the last 10 years. It is currently estimated that the area under hydroponic cultivation is between 20,000 and 25,000 hectares with a farm gate value of US$6-8 billion.

http://tinyurl.com/7g9mtub”

“Hydrponics are still widely used.
It would have to be a mean sixed petri dish to produce a steak that you can remember eating too, so perhaps not.
Genuine moo cow meat is best.”

“Evening all...

Bovine stem cells,produced in a Petra dish,using bovril as a plateau produces VCJD,obviously Derbys finest scientists who are more acquainted with growing dope in a biosphere and smoking it and not are not aware of this..Pity the fool that has to plagiarize from a link... I've had bottles of bovril since 81 and it still great with a incubator..

Lord Whopping Foghole... Vegetarian and Ind Cope made only sarnies from Marmite..

Figure that out Louie pasture..”

“omrlp, you've been on the Bovril for far too long - obviously frazzled your ability to make sense of anything at all!”

“Hi Derby, Oh dear! I must plead guilty to not keeping up with hydroponics development. Thanks for the update. As for whether or not I would eat meat grown in a petri dish...er. I suspect I won't be around long enough to have the option.”

“Has anyone sought the permission of the Catholic church before engaging in further stem cell research?”