Solent Green….. To be serious, I haven’t read the links yet but thus far it sounds a lot like they’re cloning chickens. Seeing how it only takes a fertilized egg to make a chicken versus a few thousand bucks to clone a chicken I’ll settle for the cheap one.
I already ate that lab stuff, it came in a nice OD green can. The case had P-38s can openers. You had cheese n crackers that taste like !, you could polish your boots with the tin of cheese. Some really nasty coconut candy, there was pound cake in one meal and not bad, my favorite was Butter Beans n Ham. The best rations were made during the Korean War called K-Rations. There was large cans of M&M CANDIES
LOL. Made me remember the time we set down at an LZ (tay Ninh) between CA’s. The peter pilot wanted to check something and let the chopper run for a bit so I had this brilliant idea of opening a can of C-rat spaghetti (or something like that) then put iit in the exhaust. After I waited a bit and pulled it out, I thought I would have a good hot meal but nope, tasted like kerosene or rather, burnt JP4 and I had to toss it.
You know you can just skim that soot off the top and it would have been fine. All our pilots liked that tail pipe, we back seat people just busted up a rocket motor and used a few small pieces placed under the can. I think if I remember right the motors cost about 127 dollars each. We ate a very expensive lunch everyday. Today we complain about a 6 dollar cheese burger.
There is an American Thinker article hypothesizing that this is being pursued because our farms and ranches are part of human tradition, and they are out to destroy it...he family farm, the local butcher, the local farm co-op, the local meat-packing plant, the feed companies, transportation and distribution networks that support them, children learning the family businesses, 4-H and the FFA experiences. It’s a completely different world than the experience of growing up in a big city.
I watched a really weird (and kind of scary) video on Twitter this afternoon, and it was about lab grown meat. It showed a chunk of meat, maybe about a pound chunk, and the lab guy had a little plastic module with 2 little prongs on it. He plugged the prongs into the lab meat and said he was connecting the brain to the heart, and you could see what did look like a heartbeat coming from the chunk of meat. Next, he connected a second piece, about the same size, and said that would be the lungs working. That piece didn’t really look like lungs, but they were definitely moving like they were lungs. Then he took a long skinny piece of meat and connected it to the side of the first piece, and it started wiggling and trying to move like it was a leg. After he was done, it had two legs moving the whole thing around. It was creepy ! So, then I was thinking about this, and I can’t see any reason why meat that is grown in a lab would need to be connected to a brain, heart, or have leg muscles; so if they are experimenting with something like this, it must be for some other reason. It is kind of like cloning, but different from that, too; but at what point do we say something like this is alive ?