03 September 2011

Hooray! Slaughter-free stem cell meat sausage coming soon!

Yep, it is coming.

Scientists are on the verge of growing artificial meat in laboratories without the need for animal slaughter, according to a report cited Thursday by The Herald Sun -- with one expert predicting a stem cell sausage might be just six months away.
I hope that slowly but surely we can make peace with our vegetarian friends.

Only two hurdles could be in the way, as I see it now:
  • Does a sausage grown from a stem cell have a soul? Religious authorities will have to deal with this one.
  • Stem cell: does it suffer when being fried, boiled or grilled? The Animal Liberation Front worthies will have to give us all an answer.
And ASAP, please.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is grand. Test-tube seal flipper coming soon!

SnoopyTheGoon said...

That to start with...

jams o donnell said...

I dunno about the ALF I would have thought pro lifers might have a word or two to say about stem cell grub!

Katie said...

Just one question:

Is it Kosher?

SnoopyTheGoon said...

You bet they will.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

It appears that the original cells come from a pig, but I don't think that a rabbi was already consulted. Anyway, what works with a pig will work with a cow, I guess.

IsraeliSatireLab said...

This is pretty amazing.  I wonder if they'll sell "do-it-yourself" suasage" kits  for the thrifty housefrau. What if something goes wrong and the sausage grows legs and runs away? Or bites you? I can see the headlines:  "Stem Cell Sauasage Eats Five Year Old Child - Scientist Arrested".

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yep, I agree that we may come to it yet.

Dick Stanley said...

The Greens'll kill it (so to speak) same way they did with genetically-altered crops which were going to feed the hungry. They don't care about the hungry.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

But the ALF may come down on our side, and then everyone will keep quiet. No one wants to have ALF against them.