[Andy8]

Read this on Digg, this should make for an interesting debate

Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?

New Harvest - Advancing Meat Substitutes

[Atomic Rooster]

I prefer not or pretending not to know where meat comes from.

After reading this and it will happen I suppose, I just dunno, I think I would finally get rid of my caveman cravings and become a vegetarian. I hear they can make soy beans taste like steak.

Almost felt nauseous about the article.

[brassplayersrock²]

meet your meat

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster 

I hear they can make soy beans taste like steak.

No, they can't.

[Cold Warrior]

If it's from Applebee's, then beans and steak and broccoli all taste the same.

They've got it figured out.

Applebee's is nasty.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

No, they can't.

I've found some soymeat that is actually a decent substitute for the stuff it's replacing. Most faux ground beef, Lightlife ground sausage, Morningstar's buffalo wings and corn dogs — all that stuff is actually pretty good and captures the essence of what's good about the meat products it's replacing. But I have never found a good soymeat hamburger or steak. (Actually, that's not 100% true. Black bean burgers are friggin' awesome, but they don't even try to imitate hamburgers except in shape.)

As for the original post: I'm all for it. I don't understand all the people who are more OK with torturing animals than with not. Honestly, WTF? You can ignore that your hamburger was a mommy last week but you can't get past the fact that it was created through safe and harmless scientific experimentation?

[brassplayersrock²]

re: applebee's
their pork chops are usually tasty though

[LegendaryPinkOx]

Personally, I like the idea if it can be made cheap enough. Living in a rural Kansas cow-town though, I can tell you this will make a lot of people (specificaly ranchers) nervous. Then again what scientific breakthroughs don't make rural Kansas nervous? While I don't see this happening anytime soon, I wouldn't put it past fast food or wallmart to be on it like stink on an ape, once it becomes economically viable that is. Hehe I wonder what I'll be telling my grandkids when they ask: "Where do hamboogers come from?"

[peeb]

There's very little actual meat in fast food burgers anyway, is there?

[brassplayersrock²]

mostly lips and assholes.

or was that hot dogs?

[wolfen]

That was an especially bad image violation.

[brassplayersrock²]

i can only imagine what that picture was of

[Hugi]

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² 

meet your meat

I'm guessing this is something like the documentary where Greenpeace members club seals to prove a point?

(they needed money, and for money they needed to prove a point - and they just couldn't get any good real footage of people doing really, really gorey clubbing, you know - the kind required for people to reach for their wallets...)

[LegendaryPinkOx]

Originally Posted by wolfen 

i can only imagine what that picture was of

Yeah, not often do they whip out the red ink.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Hugi 

I'm guessing this is something like the documentary where Greenpeace members club seals to prove a point?

As far as I'm aware, it's real. I've never seen it debunked or anything to indicate that it isn't legit. I tend to be suspicious of PETA, who seem to be publicity whores first and foremost, but I haven't found any reason to doubt that video.

[wolfen]

It was a really cool 3-point infraction. Never had one of those before.

I guess I can check that off my list, now.

I saw "cultured Meat" and I found a pic of Bush and Cheney...loving each other. Nekkid. I think you understand the reference. Although, the "cultured" part is debatable, I'll admit.