This morning, I read a article "Radical Changes Needed to Feed the World" while I was waiting for my mother's car to be repaired in a car service factory. It was the feedback on a guardian UK article "Artifical meat? Food for thought by 2050" which highlighted a Royal Society discussion about the artificial (or "cultured") meat solution for the 21st century.
In the feedback, Nicholas J Genovese, a postdoctoral research in the Medical University of South Carolina, clarified the possible artificial meat can be the cultured meat. That would possibly be the meat supply for the global food industry. As he defined, cultured meat which is nothing different from the natural flesh got from the animal. It is a genuine meat which can be consumed by human being. He stressed that it can be more safe to consume compared to those meat obtained from the abattoir.
Cultured meat can be produced without the animal but with a single cell extracted from an animal. The cell is then cultured under its optimum biological condition. The cell slowly grows and become a tissue, eventually ending as the meat we eat daily. This kind of production would be done under meticuluos operation which involves the DNA monitoring.
The benefits of cultured meat can be as follows:
1. It is free of any bacteria and pathogens like swine flu virus
2. No large pasture land is needed
3. Can be produced anywhere
4. No greenhouse gas emission
5. No animal slaughtering
Apparently, the cultured meat seems safe enough to eat and a solution to most of the controversial issues like global warming, animal protection. However, it is still under research as the current technology is still the threshold to the cultured meat availability.
If it were successfully produced commercially, will the vegetarians consider taking it? It does not involve any killings. But, there will be another controversial issue regarding the cultured meat.
In the feedback, Nicholas J Genovese, a postdoctoral research in the Medical University of South Carolina, clarified the possible artificial meat can be the cultured meat. That would possibly be the meat supply for the global food industry. As he defined, cultured meat which is nothing different from the natural flesh got from the animal. It is a genuine meat which can be consumed by human being. He stressed that it can be more safe to consume compared to those meat obtained from the abattoir.
Cultured meat can be produced without the animal but with a single cell extracted from an animal. The cell is then cultured under its optimum biological condition. The cell slowly grows and become a tissue, eventually ending as the meat we eat daily. This kind of production would be done under meticuluos operation which involves the DNA monitoring.
The benefits of cultured meat can be as follows:
1. It is free of any bacteria and pathogens like swine flu virus
2. No large pasture land is needed
3. Can be produced anywhere
4. No greenhouse gas emission
5. No animal slaughtering
Apparently, the cultured meat seems safe enough to eat and a solution to most of the controversial issues like global warming, animal protection. However, it is still under research as the current technology is still the threshold to the cultured meat availability.
If it were successfully produced commercially, will the vegetarians consider taking it? It does not involve any killings. But, there will be another controversial issue regarding the cultured meat.
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