Engineers of Laboratory-Grown Muscle Figure Out How to Make It Firm and Strong

floppy, soggy, and structureless? sounds a lot like spam. if so, this may not be a new development.

all joking aside, though, this is an interesting development, and I wonder if both uses mentioned would be practical?

why learn from your own mistakes, when you could learn from the mistakes of others?

I look forward to when they can help people with heart muscle and muscle that becomes weak from different illness and disease too. This seems like very promising and helpful science.

Soggy and structureless is perfect for hot dogs and hamburgers if they can do it with beef. Come on! No risk of mad cow if the meat itself is grown on an assembly line! And people who believe "meat is murder" could finally have a hamburger guilt-free.

Of course, one can hardly blame the "meat is atrocious" crowd when stuff like this happens in the United States of America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vqIGTKuQE

I for one will not eat lab grown meat no matter the advances. It will simply push me more toward buying directly from farmers. My meat had better have grown up with a heartbeat and experienced life and death.

sure growing pig meat might stop some from being slaughtered but if it were perfected so that there was difference in the quality it might result in extinction of the Pig. Why raise and feed pigs if not for food?

I wonder if they can simulate certain parts of the pig, like meat from other parts of the body. It would simply require varying the firmness and fat content of the meat.

I imagine most people will still eat from the natural source of grown pigs than grown meat simply because lab grown food is still susecptible to so many things, who knows how many side effects would come from it. But eventually I think the technology will come to a point eating Lab Grown meat will become much healthier than a natural pig. Imagine it even having more key nutrients and actually being incredibly healthy for you. I think that is what we should strive for someday. I would love to eat a chocolate cake designed to give me all me daily vitamins with zero or very small percent of fat. But of course we cant do this now. Which is why people freak out from anything with the word "Lab" in it. But this grown muscle is just the first step. We just have to get better at it. I mean when the first car came out, who would have thought it would replace horses except for those who push it? Hell look where cars are now. IN THE SENSE of how far and fast they travel. Yes they still need to be worked on in thier fuel use.

Better of Ted Meat Blob.....

if this ever did work out it would end up on supermarket isles without most people even knowing just like genetically engineered plants did, also it could be used in countless process products that contain meat. ex lunchables and dog food

No way. Every piece of the pig has different taste, texture and applications for specific dishes.