Written by PETA
If the heartbreaking pictures of animals suffering on factory farms and in slaughterhouses bring you down (and if they don't, you need to worry), you'll be pleased to learn that scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina are developing a way to give die-hard carnivores an animal-friendly meat fix. With the help of a grant from PETA, the scientists are working on growing "cultured" meat in their laboratory, relying on techniques similar to those they are using in their research on growing human organs for transplant patients.
The list of benefits of bioengineered in vitro meat goes on and on. It is far less likely to be contaminated with bacteria such as E. coli, salmonella, and campylobacter, which are widespread on factory farms. Scientists can control how much fat is added to the meat, which could help people lower their risk for heart disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes. The production of cultured meat wouldn't generate the tons of animal waste that factory farms do or contribute to climate change and massive water and air pollution. And, of course, if cultured meat became widely available, millions of animals every year would be spared from being scalded, skinned, or hacked apart or having their throats cut open while they are still conscious and struggling.Meat produced safely in a clean, controlled environment could someday make dead animal flesh look about as progressive as The Flintstones.
Written by Michelle Sherrow
Omnivore =/= carnivore.
Just sayin.
Also, this stuff would be very hard to get going as the meat would be VERY expensive due to the cost of the machines, the "ingredients", and paying the many employees that there would be. Also, this would be hard to mass produce due to the costs. But if this were to happen I'd be all for it.
If it's done right it may eliminate all of the factors that contribute to diseases in humans as well as eliminating animal cruelty, but in order to get people to buy it it would have to be as inexpensive as a pound of natural hamburger...
Oh, Jessica, how naive you are. You do realize that when animals are slaughtered, they bleed, right? And they are eviscerated? Ponder for a moment how "clean" and "controlled" that process might be.
Obviously not, watch the video!!!!!!!!!!!
Production conditions for animals are abysmal, as evidenced by the glut of resistant diseases drifting out of factory farms and manure plants. If we could leave it behind it would be a HUGE boon to the environment and human health. And all of that is without considering the immense burden farming places on animals, needlessly.
Jessica : to answer tour question it's NO!
They are supposted to be but sadly the inspector are told to look the other way. The same way they look the other way when "down cattle" who are so sick with illness they can't walk or being dragged into the slaughter house and killed only to be served on our dinner tables.
How do I know this: I was a truck driver who picked up meat at these places along with the chicken slaughter house ( which I have been inside of ) and also egg farms were they have dead birds laying on eggs that are covered with their feces.
This is why I became a veggie lover who eats mostly vegon.
Hope this helps. It's sad but true! You asked a very good question and I beleive you needed to know the truth.
No, actually, they don't. Most of the meat industry is pretty filthy even if it says organic. And its also not as relevant that the slaughterhouses themselves are clean as it is that the factory farms are clean--in factory farms, which is 98-99% of the meat industry, animals grow up their entire short lives living in filth and very often getting disease and sickness. Take that animal to a clean slaughterhouse and its still not a clean or healthy animal.
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