World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London

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Originally Posted by HuffPCair

Fat is not bad, excessive fat is what is bad. It is all about the types of fats you put in.

Also for healthy or not, that is still in the air, but I will take my chances with what I know works and not what they are guessing on. Nature does a pretty good job controlling this. I have tons of faith in science, but if this was to take off you would have companies like McDonalds taking over with this type of stuff and then all will go down hill, since most you people already eat that stuff and think it is 100% beef, I would not be surprised in what they can do with lab made meat.

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Because of the single word "artery clogging saturate fat" myth that Ancel Keys helped to start with his "7 countries study" that was conducted a long time ago, before even the different types of cholesterol where mapped...
What he actually found in terms of what the USA has issues with was sugar(Sucrose - Fructose and Glucose), the stuff you find in soda and quite a lot of other products in the US today, not that you are alone anymore on this mistake.

We need to move on people, and realize that the stuff that is killing us and created the obesity epidemic in the first place was simple and refined carbohydrates, not dietary fat.

Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert Lustig M.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Same talk, but updated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOCPyheVesM

Enjoy Eating Saturated Fats: They're Good for You. Donald W. Miller, Jr., M.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRe9z32NZHY

Gary Taubes(Journalist, not an M.D.): What If Fat, Doesn't Make You Fat? (Dr Dean Ornish isen't entirely convinced about fat, so it's an interesting counter argument.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCgTlC8PE0Q

This seems to be a decent blog about the subject as well, by Peter Attia M.D.:
http://eatingacademy.com/

It's all about how much carbohydrates you eat and what kind.

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Originally Posted by Lanek

Same for supermaket, you cant believe the quantity of food they are thrown away ...

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Many supermarkets and big box chains in the US have been getting very much involved with http://feedingamerica.org/
My employer has been participating for a couple of years now and we donate hundreds of thousands of pounds of food each year as well as substantial direct financial support.

Back on topic - I think once the science proves out nutritional values, adoption rates will be the biggest issue. I have not researched the project but I'm sure the "how" of the process will be very important. What really is necessary to make it grow, what does it "feed" on, do hormones need to be added, are they artificial hormones because they were added or have they been specially modified?

I'm not for or against but I'm sure we'll see arguments against this based on ethics, morals, religion, politics, and finance, all the way down to personal dietary decisions ... why did I become a vegetarian in the first place and does it still matter?

this can't taste any worse than mcdoubles and those things sell like hotcakes. give me 2 plz.

Apart from the fact that it would be considered barbaric, that we slaughtered such vast populations of livestock merely to eat foods with better taster than if they were merely vegetable-based, in the more near -than we expect- future this will have a lot more tangible benefits too. In short anything tech based can be mass produced and being dependent on IT gets very cheap very fast in high quantities and quality. It's all a matter of scale that those labs would operate. Conventional farms are already close to "maxed out" to how efficient they can be and they get better very slowly.

I expect the taste not to be there at first, but for the reasons stated above I also expect to far surpass the original -eventually- with improved techniques of meat farming. There is so much nature can do, engineering can do a lot more, so I do not see why anyone ought to be against thir or more laughably find it it repulsive (given that most of those people wouldn't stand the sight of a slaughterhouse)...

I think it is just the idea of eating something natural vs artificial. All those unpronounceable chemicals in our food these days is already disturbing enough and makes me wonder what negative effects they all have on us.