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SalonAdded Josh Schonwald, author of The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food and the meats second official taster, the texture has a feel like meat. He ranked it as existing somewhere between a meat-imitating Boca Burger and a McDonalds burger.
Both agreed that the patty, prepared by chef Richard McGeown, wasnt quite what youd get from a slaughtered cow, calling out the absence of fat as being particularly noticeable. Were still a long way, too, from being able to produce synthetic meat quickly and affordably. This mornings meal took three months to produce, which, as someone pointed out, is still faster than a cow.
Dr. Mark Post, the scientist behind the meat, said hes confident enough in its safety that hed be comfortable letting his children eat it. Members of the audience expressed disappointment that they werent allowed to partake.
Enough ketchup, pickles, tomato, onion and lettuce....who's gonna know?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)so it probably tastes like meat *would* taste if cattle were fed intravenously on refined nutrients rather than corn (as in the USA) or grass and forage (as outside the USA). An animal's diet affects the flavour of the meat (this is part of why wild game tastes, well, gamy).
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Isn't that McDonald's slogan?
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Apparently Soilent Green wont be made from people after all!!
reusrename
(1,716 posts)Turd burgers isn't just a saying anymore.
Oh my!
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Silent3
(15,020 posts)...natural = good" thinking on this issue.
The River
(2,615 posts)they use beet root juice to color it.
In the movie, "Soylent Green" also came in red and yellow.
If this is the future, I'm going vegan.
librechik
(30,663 posts)but I have no facts to back that up.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)Think about fake meat being grown in trays instead of being produced on feed lots and in slaughterhouses. If you've ever driven by a feed lot in August, you'd know what I mean when I say that's got to be the absolute worst way to finish meat possible, animals standing knee deep in their own waste and crowded into pens where there is nothing to do but eat unhealthy food so that their muscle tissue becomes loaded with fat. That fat might make undercooked meat nice and tender, but it's killing us the way it would kill the animals if it went on long enough.
Then there's the horror of the slaughterhouse and what it does to the workers, mostly undocumented Mexicans, who work there. It's bloody, nasty and dangerous work.
I eat beef once a year when the first cold snap makes me crave it. I gravitate to the grass fed stuff even though it's tougher because I live in feedlot country and no thanks.
Soylent beef would likely be a great substitute for many people, giving the flavor and texture of hamburger. Unfortunately, cattle would still be subject to short and terrible lives for those of us who can afford steak, since that is beyond our ability to grow at present.
Still, the prospect of real burger grown cheaply enough and without distressing animal or environment is very appealing.
randome
(34,845 posts)In the not-too-distant future.
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NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Join us. Don't fear the tofu burger.
The River
(2,615 posts)and the fake burgers are decent substitutes
but nothing beats a grilled burger.