Tuesday 5 December 2017

I Am Sure Many Of Us Will Have Heard Of Laboratory Grown Meat,

that is when meat is grown artificially, 


and by taking just stem cells there is no longer any need to slaughter animals, and as a by product, by reducing the number of cattle on the planet the procedure would greatly reduce greenhouse gasses,

so artificial beef burgers it is then! and here is another, artificially produced fish, Selden and Wyrwas’s lab was only established in March 2017, and as Selden says, “Fish cell culture was really not a thing. Human cell cultures - we do that all the time and there’s all sorts of papers on animal culture, but for fish, Brian had to invent a protocol to do that.” The principle for culturing cells is relatively straightforward. Animal cells can be obtained harmlessly by biopsy from a living beast, or in the case of Finless, says Selden, “We have an agreement with the aquarium at the bay that whenever a fish dies, they call me and I jump in a car, pick up the fish, bring it back and Brian cultures it up.” By “culturing up” he means feeding the cells in a solution of salts, carbohydrates and proteins. “Typical division time for most animals is about 24 hours,” he says. Whether you’ve got two cells or two tonnes, you’ll have double a day later, although this may get faster,

but wait a second here, has anyone thought this through? take the scenario below,

well that's food for thought!


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