See:
http://beef-mag.com/mag/beef_testtube_meat/
This may seem off-topic -- okay, it is off topic -- but the comments
made in this article are revealing. As with cold fusion, experts in
the established industry say they have 'nothing to worry about'
because it will not happen in their lifetimes. It is revealing that
they view progress as something to worry about, instead of something
to take advantage of. They do not actually say "worry about" but that
is the implied meaning in comments such as these:
"Douglas McFarland, a South Dakota State University animal science
professor and co-author, says cattlemen needn't worry about
competition from in vitro meat anytime soon.
'I don't imagine I'll be buying a slab of tissue-engineered meat in
the supermarket in my lifetime,' McFarland says. 'It will remain too
expensive, and I don't know if enough money is going to be put into
it (research) to make it a reality.'"
Others are more realistic:
"If in vitro meat production ever becomes reality, Matheny says it
will offer economic incentives to most everyone in the
meat-production chain, except those currently growing animals.
'But the adoption of this technology would be so gradual, it would be
just a continuation of the current trend in ag,' Matheny says. 'In
the early part of this century, a quarter of all Americans were
employed on farms. Today, it's around 1%. . . . It's not like the
other 24% are unemployed; their kids just did something else.'"
This is from a link at:
http://www.new-harvest.org/resources.htm
- Jed
