On 8/5/2013 1:26 PM, Dakota wrote:
> On 8/5/2013 3:10 PM, Witziges Rätsel wrote:
>> On 8/5/2013 2:34 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
>>>
>>> It's here, ****wit: laboratory produced meat grown in a container. No
>>> cattle were brought into existence and "got to experience life" in
>>> order
>>> to produce this beef.
>>>
>>
>> Does it smell like fish?
>
> The meat grown in the laboratory required starter cells from cattle that
> did exist.

Right, but ultimately it would be possible to produce massive amounts of
beef with just a few cattle to provide the stem cells. Hundreds of
millions, perhaps billion, of cattle lives would never occur.