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    Vat-Meat Approaching the Mainstream: Peter Thiel Seeds Modern Meadow Billionaire investor Peter Thiel’s philanthropic foundation plans to announce today a six-figure grant for bioprinted meat, part of an ambitious plan to bring to the world’s dinner tables a set of technologies originally developed for creating medical-grade tissues. The recipient of the Thiel Foundation’s grant, a Columbia, Mo.-based startup named Modern Meadow, is pitching bioprinted meat as a more environmentally-friendly way to satisfy a natural human craving for animal protein. Co-founder Andras Forgacs has sharply criticized the overall cost of traditional livestock practices, saying “if you look at the resource intensity of everything that goes into a hamburger, it is an environmental train wreck.” (via 3D printed meat: It’s what’s for dinner | Cutting Edge - CNET News)

    Vat-Meat Approaching the Mainstream: Peter Thiel Seeds Modern Meadow

    Billionaire investor Peter Thiel’s philanthropic foundation plans to announce today a six-figure grant for bioprinted meat, part of an ambitious plan to bring to the world’s dinner tables a set of technologies originally developed for creating medical-grade tissues.

    The recipient of the Thiel Foundation’s grant, a Columbia, Mo.-based startup named Modern Meadow, is pitching bioprinted meat as a more environmentally-friendly way to satisfy a natural human craving for animal protein. Co-founder Andras Forgacs has sharply criticized the overall cost of traditional livestock practices, saying “if you look at the resource intensity of everything that goes into a hamburger, it is an environmental train wreck.”

    (via 3D printed meat: It’s what’s for dinner | Cutting Edge - CNET News)

     
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      It’s been a staple in sf stories for years now. I don’t see the ick factor. Bring on the biobeef!
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    6. bzzimm reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
      Wut
    7. josephstoddart reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
      I know some people thinks it’s gross (I’ll admit I would think that at first) but when you look past that and look at it...
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      Change
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    10. ghostinthemachinelrm reblogged this from climateadaptation and added:
      I want Bio-beef!
    11. dobredobre reblogged this from climateadaptation and added:
      interested in opinions on this. after (admittedly cursory) readings i’m wide open to it. especially interested in...
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      NO NO NO NO NO
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      I have an inkling in my head that this is still not the way to go, but time will tell.
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      I really don’t like beef. Yes I will have a steak once in a while, but for the most part I stick to chicken and pork. I...
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      YES. I’ve been going on about both of these technologies for a while, so this is pretty awesome to see.
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      Synthetic meat: Potentially a great coup for sustainability and animal rights.
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      I’d try it. Printed meat opens an interesting debate, testing environmentalists’ ethical arguments against eating beef....
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