Call it KindMeat, Kill-Free meat or lab steak. The reality is that in-vitro meat, essentially growing laboratory meat from the stem cells of an animal without having to kill said animal, will usher in a new era. This is meat produced in a cell culture, rather than from an animal.
Once perfected, this technology, conceivably, could create a market of healthier, perfectly engineered meat, pumped full of healthy Omega 3's and with many of the problems associated with meat-eating being essentially removed.
No more animals would ever have to be killed. The non-profit foundation New-Harvest.org explains: "Because meat substitutes are produced under controlled conditions impossible to maintain in traditional animal farms, they can be safer, more nutritious, less polluting, and more humane than conventional meat."
Actual tissue engineering in a lab is now possible! Imagine supermarkets with meat sections that read: "no-kill meat" and "kind meat."
My Op/Ed video offers some thoughts on the matter:
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If you are willing to eat meat from animals that are jacked up on hormones and antobiotics, then stuffed full of pesticide covered food that they can't process correctly, why wouldn't you be willing to give this a chance?
-1984
Actually, there is no need to create a lab version of meat to obtain its nutritional benefits. A ruminant such as a cow turns grass into meat via a remarkable digestive system. If the cow digestive system could be reproduced in an enclosure about the size of a cow rumen, theoretically, nutritious food could be created at home using, for example, the cuttings from your lawn!
Such technology has been proposed, whereby the bacteria, enzymes, and environment of a cow gut are recreated in an enclosure, fueled by ruminant natural foods such as grass. Imagine throwing your grass cuttings into a vat in the morning, and extracting a nutritious fermented food product later in the day to sustain you and your family.
For more information, see:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=m2CgAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Roy Mankovitz, Director
http://www.MontecitoWellness.com