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One thing we have learnt this week is about artificial meat<\/a>.\u00a0 The press have been full of stories about the lab grown hamburger at $250,000 a go.\u00a0 This has set off another rash of stories about eating insects.\u00a0 Insects, or artificial meat things are going to have to get pretty drastic before I will eat them!<\/p>\n

I recognise the problems; in that meat is responsible for almost 20% of greenhouse gas emissions, we will never grow enough to feed a western diet to everyone if they reach the same standard of living as westerners do.\u00a0 However, artificial meat apart from the yuk factor has other problems for me.\u00a0 The fact that it was grown on foetal calf serum is one.\u00a0 Apart from the way foetal calf serum is produced, having used it to grow cells in the lab I would not eat anything grown on it or near it!\u00a0 Clearly using foetal calf serum would mean meat dependency has not been eliminated, but I know from experience finding other media that are as rich will be a problem.\u00a0 Another problem is that growing artificial meat will still need a lot of energy.\u00a0 According to channel 4 news about half as much as growing normal meat, but still a lot especially if we did largely replace animal reared meat with it.\u00a0 In a post oil world this is still going to be problem.\u00a0 So both the energy and protein source for culturing artificial meat are going to be problem.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 the whole story has opened up a whole useful debate on the future of food and that is<\/em> healthy.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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