"Cultivated bacon could soon be a reality, as a company" Topic

… readies its first tasing

"The cultivated meat maker Mission Barns is now offering consumers a chance to try its brand-new bacon grown from real pork fat cells, produced without animal slaughter. A group between 50 and 100 individuals will be selected for a weeklong tasting in mid-August to be carried out in selected restaurants.

Proteins cultivated in this way aren't available on the market anywhere yet, so this is an opportunity to find what meat grown from just a few cells tastes like…"

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Armand

Cloned bacon??!! No thanks I'll get mine from pigs.

I really hope they perfect this technology. Meat without suffering would be great (so long as it doesn't come with some other large downside, which it may well do).

I think I'll stick to the real stuff too, though this is perhaps a better option than a soy, or veggie substitute, assuming it tastes like real bacon, and has the consistency to real meat.

I believe scientists are concerned that consuming too much of this, will turn you into a pig-faced Orc.

IF, I can do anything to eliminate the suffering or needless death of any animal I w/do so…Gladly!

Vegetarian with limited meat/fish intake for the last several years and I will continue to try and lower that amount as time passes and as plant (or cell) based foods come to meet the taste expectations of the consumer.

If I can wean myself after 65 years, I'm sure it will be easier for young(er) people who care.

Does anyone want to hear/read the environmental Horror Stories from NC and other states after a Hurricane when their massive pig farms are flooded, etc.?

Again though, the operative word is reduction and weaning. Even "I" have to have a DAMN GOOD Hamburger once a year (5 Guys or Grilled home-made), but by the same token I can live on Fresh Veggie Loaded Semi-Homemade Ramen soup five days a week and enjoy/savor it on the fifth day as much as I did on the first!

I believe scientists are concerned that consuming too much of this, will turn you into a pig-faced Orc.

From what I can see, it may be to late for some already ! 🐷

Interesting

In terms of food safety, despite what one might think, foods prepared in this manner are actually more likely to be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria than when they come from "on the hoof"

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Amicalement
Armand

One rather large downside (for the pigs) is that if it succeeds then pigs will no longer be profitable, and no farmer will rear any. Result – extinction or near extinction of pigs.

It's all going to come down to cost; If it's more expensive than the real thing, then it's only going to be a snooty gourmet thing… ;-)

I HATE Damn Snooty Gourmand's and Gourmet tipes of peeple!

It isn't cloned. It is grown. Total difference. Cells do what they are programmed to do naturally.

These foods are likely to be safer than traditional as you cant rear a pig in a lab environment. Pigs today receive loads of antivirals, antibiotics, growth hormones, you name it. This could mean cleaner meat as those drugs would not be required assuming the environment is maintained clinically.

Good point!.

Amicalement
Armand

Hey! What about ham, ribs, tenderloin and hot dogs? You get rid of the pigs and there goes some of my favorite foods.

Agreed !!!!! 😯

oh boy, oh boy.

Cloned bacon??!! No thanks I'll get mine from pigs.

The original scells have to coem from pigs, soe the meat is "fgrom pigs" Just like when you have a burrn victim, the skin comes from donated "cloned" skin, and iit's still skin; Notably, foreskins mainly. Though Stem cell maodification is replacing it I would imagine.

In terms of food safety, despite what one might think, foods prepared in this manner are actually more likely to be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria than when they come from "on the hoof"

[Citation Needed] I would think just the opposite: Havign seen firsthand the cleani]liness procedures at cell culture labs ( During interviews for a position there ) I'd say that your average abbatoir would be an order of magnitude less clean in a ocrobial sense ( Again, I've seen those durign interviews as well ).

if it succeeds then pigs will no longer be profitable, and no farmer will rear any. Result – extinction or near extinction of pigs.

Not really – You'll probably still need cell lines from live pigs as cell cultures are prone to mutating to the point where they no longer breed ( Though they aren't toxic or anything ). One reason why when the technology was primitive about 20 years agao, it was thought that such meat woudl hev to be derived from similar itesm to waht many plants are cloned from ( To make retrovirus-free sedlings ) : Basically cancer tumors. However, the cell culture technology has leapt forward ( Due shockingly to research into plastics spurred by HIV/AIDS tests ) and practically any cells vcan be cultured.
Livestock would therefore still be needed, but in smaller numbers, like "blood horses" and I imagine they would lead as pampered and luxurious a life as those creatures. In fact, zoos and biological gardens could become sources of exotic cultured meats as well; One can imagine lark's tongue or whale meat as common as chicken, with a portion of the cost going to support wildlife recovery efforts for those animals.

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Armand

What if they fully develop into a full batch of Kevin Bacon clones?

No worries, they'll be so close to the original that there won't be more than six degrees of separation between them… ;-)

HERESY, IT'S HERESY, I tell you

BURN THE WITCH, BURN THE WITCH!!!!!!!!!

If you allow this to continue, next they will be coming for our BEER!!!!!

🎶"In heaven there is no beer … "🎵

Probably no bacon either … 🥓

Wash you mouth out with soap Legion!!!!

Or with cheap beer.

I'll drink to that !

Besides what makes you think either of us is going to Heaven ?

I never had any illusions to that effect, it was you who made that comment…remember?
It's OK Legion, as we get older the first two things to go are our memory and I forget the second.

What ? Where ? Who ?

Oh how the mighty have fallen

Is it Tuesday ? 🤔

I'll get you some Spamburgers

Ha!………

Armand