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Default Beef produced and eaten, and not a single steer or cow "got toexperience life"

On 8/6/2013 3:45 PM, ****wit David Harrison - *Goo* - stupid, illiterate
cracker and convicted felon, defeated entirely in 1999 and doing nothing
but wasting time ever since, lied:

> On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:34:33 -0700, 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.
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/business/mone...,7945932.story
>>
>>
>> By Ricardo Lopez
>>
>> August 5, 2013, 8:29 a.m.
>>
>> For a $330,000 burger, taste testers thought the flavor fell a little flat.
>>
>> The hefty price tag, however, wasn't for some fancy, rare cut of meat.
>> In fact, this meat had never so much as mooed in a previous life: It was
>> beef grown in a laboratory.
>>
>> Dutch scientists Monday unveiled their ambitious research project, years
>> in the making, with a public taste test of their cultured beef in London.
>>
>> Volunteer tasters sampled hamburger made from the lab-grown beef made
>>from stem cells. Scientists hope it can one day alleviate a food crisis
>> as the world's population swells and help combat climate change.
>>
>> To make the meat, scientists at Maastricht University in the Netherlands
>> used muscle stem cells from two organic cows and combined them with a
>> nutrient solution. The muscle cells then grew into strands of meat. It
>> takes 20,000 strands to make a 5-ounce burger.
>>
>> Taste testers said the meat lacked the fat of a conventional burger,
>> making the taste a little underwhelming, the Associated Press reported.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> So, it's not quite ready for market, but this could soon be the way
>> *all* meat is produced. It would be cheaper and less environmentally
>> destructive than raising livestock. If it comes to pass, then billions
>> and billions and eventually trillions of animals will never "get to
>> experience life" - their lives will be prevented, and "vegans" won't
>> have anything to do with it.
>>
>> I'm not saying it will come to pass, but if it does, the fact that
>> trillions of animals will never exist and "get to experience life" will
>> be meaningless. No one will care.

>
> I've agreed with that the whole time


No, that's a lie, *Goo*. You have ****ed and moaned every step of the
way about anything that might reduce the number of livestock animals
"getting to experience life", as you so wretchedly put it in your shitty
cracker way or writing.