--- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps this will solve the kosher/halal killing and slaughterhouses
> problem
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993208
> (It's an article from December)
>
> Tissue engineers are growing fake meat from cell cultures.
>
> However, you only need to establish a good blood supply if you want to grow
>
> thick slabs of muscle. Vladimir Mironov, director of the Shared Tissue
> Engineering Laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina in
> Charleston has other ideas. His team thinks the meat of the future will be
> a
> processed food closer to a sausage or hamburger.
>
> In a detailed project proposal to NASA, he sets out how to grow cells on
> protein spheres suspended in growth medium. These could then be harvested
> and made into nuggets or patties.
>
Are there not "Chicken Vats" in one of the GC novels?
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