First artificial burger to cost £250,000

I refuse to eat artificial meat though. I'd eat human before that ever happened. And why is that?

Lovely we will soon be reliant on the labs and investors for our meat. No thanks. I'll buy from the farmer. These scientists must be the flunkies that are from the groups trying to grOw back limbs, new livers., and other medical advances. Why are labs and investors any worse than fields and farming companies?

Why are labs and investors any worse than fields and farming companies? Corporations have already forced farmers to purchase their seeds by buying up the mills and only accepting their products. I don't have a problem with the biology like some. I'll eat just about anything. I have a problem with the amount of control and reliance we could gave on such a product. Like gasoline or electricity. We become reliant on such things then in bad economic times, natural disasters, or just power plays governments take over. Government is already in charge of our money It's trying to be Iin charge of our ... [More]

Besides. The greater reality is that any energy stores used to grow meat.... Must come from somewhere. That some where is still going to be crops. Growing food in a lab is not going to change anything. It just adds another complicated step and choke point in the process of bringing food to market. Is it really more efficient to turn carbohydrates into meat in a lab? I guess the question comes down to how many square feet of land and other resources does it take to produce a pound of beef of natural meat vs lab meat.

Artificial meat ... hasn't McDonald's been doing that for the past 50+ years? BWAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH. right on!

Somehow I get the feeling it just ain't gonna taste right. Prolly taste like my college chem lab smelled. McD's is years ahead of em on doctoring the taste.

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH. right on! Whether it's healthy and/or you think it tastes good or not, the hamburger they use is 100% beef, and exactly the same as hamburger meat you buy in the grocery store. As would be the hamburger that is created in the lab. This is why I'm not getting why some are gagging at the idea. Well, I know why, but you should learn about what something is made of before ragging on it.

I think it's great. I'd be more than happy to give it a go once it's all up to scratch with the tast of real meat, and lab tested as safe of course. It'll be the way of the future no doubt. Perhaps not in the very near future as it would take alot to set up mass production, but i certainly think it will be common place in my life time. And i would be very happy to see an end to the slaughter of our food sources. There are some very dodgy abbatoirs out there. Just watch 'earthlings'.

While I agree that it is a huge step in the right direction as far as humane treatment of our food sources IE: no more cruelty on huge corporate farms I fear that this advancement will ultimately hurt the "little guy" cattle rancher... The "little guy" is already hurt, though. The days of small family farms is over; at least 80% of all meat in the U.S comes from factory farms. Companies like Tyson Foods, which produces more meat than any other company in the world, now controls the trade. So I don't get all the negativity towards the possibility of artificial meat being produced on a mass scal... [More]

First they get you interested by telling you there's gonna be a $339,877 burger. Then right beneath the picture for the article is an add for Jimmy John's. Is this a coincidence? I think not.