Monday, June 4, 2007

Pork Without Its Mother

Artificial pork.

Cool. haha. Dutch scientist now are in their pursuit to create pork meat in their lab.
They feel that it is wrong to rare animals just to feed human, so they have decided to make pork in a scientific way.

Trying to make meat without killing animals sound a bit weird though.

Anyway they thought of creating artificial meat is because raring animals gives a lot of problems to the environment. Like they said " Animals need to grow. They produce many things that we do not eat."

So they took minimising waste to a whole new level.

So how do they do it?

Under the process, researchers first isolate muscle stem cells, which have the ability to grow and multiply into muscle cells. Then they stimulate the cells to develop, give them nutrients and exercise them with electric current to build bulk.

After perfecting that process, scientists will then need to figure out how to layer tissues to add more bulk, since meat grown in Petri dishes lacks the blood vessels needed to deliver nutrients through thick muscle fibres.

And then there is the question of fat, to add flavour.

Chicken flavored pork =D

Well, some people might not accept how it is made, but the scientist said that all these while we have been eating processed food, so this is not much different from it too =D In fact, it is cleaner in my opinion.

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