Would you eat Synthetic Meat?

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Uploaded by on Sep 29, 2011

There are emerging radical technologies that have the potential to change the way we live. This animation on synthetic meat is part of a series for a session at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas exploring the contribution of enabling bio- and nano- technologies and their associated socio-cultural, health, safety and environmental impacts. We ask what excites you about this? What frightens you? And explore how they may change the way we live. See more at http://adelaidefestivalofideas.com.au/three-technologies-that-will-change-the...

Presented by RiAus and Bridge8 for the National Enabling Technologies Strategy Expert Forum and the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

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  • Bring it on the sooner the better as far as I'm concerned. What with bovine tb,bse etc and the state of modern farming practices it could hardly be any worse. As far as rare breeds etc go we do work to ensure the survival of other breeds of animal we don't eat such as elephants so we can do the same for cattle and sheep etc.

  • @lasiorhinuskrefftii such problems may include susceptibility to disease - these cells are alive and still susceptible to viruses, bacteria etc. just like the living animal. If everyone makes steak out of one proto-cow and the rest of the cows die out, a virus could destroy a lot of meat before it is contained.

  • If this method of producing steaks etc became feasible then 2 things would worry me: 1/ lack of meat diversity (we are already seeing this now - everyone wants to buy chicken breast but not the other parts, buy rump steak but not the all the other cuts, regardless of nutritional value. 2/ loss of biodiversity - extinction of old breeds of sheep etc, varieties of tomato etc. A vast biodiversity can contain solutions to problems we don't yet know we'll be having.

  • If to became the normal cows, chickens, and other food stock animals will simply cease to be grown and thus would likely go extinct.

  • The session on Three Technologies That May Transform the Way We Live during the Adelaide Festival of Ideas is on Saturday 8th October at 12pm at the RiAus Science Exchange. See you there!

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