Synthetic Beef Hamburger Coming to a McDonalds Near You Soon

[JJVP]

Google's Sergey Brin bankrolled world's first synthetic beef hamburger
The billionaire co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, said he invested €250,000 in the technology for animal welfare reasons

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013 ... -hamburger" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bdickens]

That is spooky.

No thanks. I'll just have a veggie burger.

[TheCytochromeC]

I thought that brown stuff was already synthetic beef... and chicken... and ... everything.

[SQLGeek]

Soylent Green is made from PEOPLE.

[mojo84]

We have too many synthetic things/food as it is.

[SQLGeek]

We have too many synthetic things/food as it is.

Most of the people pushing this as a good thing seem to care more for animals than they do people.

[mewalke]

I remember reading an article about this that described the patty as "strips of lab grown muscle pressed together to form a patty"..... yum?

[JJVP]

We have too many synthetic things/food as it is.

Most of the people pushing this as a good thing seem to care more for animals than they do people.

That is the theme on most of the comments to the article.

[sjfcontrol]

Soylent Green is made from PEOPLE.

But "Soylent" is real!

https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.gizmag.com/soylent-future-of-food/27684/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.break.com/article/do-you-wan ... od-2448981" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[cheezit]

I thought that brown stuff was already synthetic beef... and chicken... and ... everything.

weres the like button. my exact thoughts

[Dave2]

We have too many synthetic things/food as it is.

Most of the people pushing this as a good thing seem to care more for animals than they do people.

I thought they were pushing it as a means to cheaper "meat"? I mean at some point, we'll run out of land to grow food... We might as well develop the technologies to overcome the issue while the need is non-urgent so we don't mess it up when the time comes (I draw the line at eating insects, though )

[Beiruty]

I will pass.

[Dave2]

I will pass.

Oh me too, I'm just saying that at some point in the future, there'll probably be a need for the technology.

[talltex]

I will pass.

Oh me too, I'm just saying that at some point in the future, there'll probably be a need for the technology.

Hopefully, that time will be a long way off, but admittedly it may not. The population growth trendlines over the last 1,000 years worldwide on a bar graph looks like a 90% flat line with only a gentle upward gradient until you hit the 20th century were it shoots up to almost completely vertical. In the meantime, fortunately, I still have the capability to grow most of my own meat and harvest some of the rest, so I'll pass on any synthetic meats until absolutley necessary.

[bizarrenormality]

I don't think we'll be seeing it on the Dollar Menu any time soon.