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

On 8/7/2013 10:45 AM, ****wit David Harrison - *Goo* - stupid,
illiterate cracker and convicted felon, defeated entirely in 1999 and
doing nothing but wasting time ever since, lied:

> On 8/6/2013 4:47 PM, George Plimpton wrote:> 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.

>
> Your're


<chortle>

> lying again since


I'm not lying, *Gloo*. You have *always* and *only* been ****ing your
panties over the fact that "vegans" want to prevent "future farm
animals" from existing.



>> animals "getting to experience life", as you so wretchedly put it

>
> You have proven without doubt that you can't think of a better way to put it


Existence, *Gloo*. That's all it is. Coming into existence *is* what
you mean. You should just say it.