Spoken like a true lizard. It can't possibly taste as good as the real thing, but we can forget what the real thing tastes like after a while, and I'm not willing to do that to my potential children and frankly, madam, I'm appalled that you're willing to do it to your actual ones.
It's not absolutely impossible that it could taste all right, and most of what we do with meat (hamburger, whatever) only requires crap. It's not as if cows are going to be extinct.
They don't have comments over there, but there's a 50s SF story that mentions an entire urban population fed by "Chicken Little", a chicken liver tumour growing rapidly in a vat. Better than the "mechanically recovered" filth that goes into cheap hot-dogs..
If it tastes good, what's the difference?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04- 1-05 8:29 PM
Spoken like a true lizard. It can't possibly taste as good as the real thing, but we can forget what the real thing tastes like after a while, and I'm not willing to do that to my potential children and frankly, madam, I'm appalled that you're willing to do it to your actual ones.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04- 1-05 8:32 PM
If that were true, the KKK would be cannibals.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04- 1-05 11:12 PM
It's not absolutely impossible that it could taste all right, and most of what we do with meat (hamburger, whatever) only requires crap. It's not as if cows are going to be extinct.
(Admittedly, I don't plan to eat this stuff.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04- 2-05 8:03 AM
I think what LB is trying to say is, "I hate America, and the red-bloody goodness that drives it."
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04- 2-05 8:28 AM
They don't have comments over there, but there's a 50s SF story that mentions an entire urban population fed by "Chicken Little", a chicken liver tumour growing rapidly in a vat. Better than the "mechanically recovered" filth that goes into cheap hot-dogs..
Posted by dave heasman | Link to this comment | 04- 2-05 12:01 PM
"In vitro meat is people! It's pee-pul!"
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04- 2-05 12:24 PM
The Space Merchants, C.M Kornbluth and Fred Pohl -- a classic of the genre.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04- 2-05 7:06 PM