"Ew." Walk up to the common person and tell them to eat an artificial burger. That is the response to this. But, they hid that this was artificial. The taste testers said that it reminded them of meat but it wasn't juicy. This is an AMAZING article, and I look forward to seeing if artificial foods ARE incredible, or inedible. Thanks Sarina for sharing this with us. This is a great article to learn about foods that aren't good.
Wasn't the whole process of taking cow cells, growing muscle tissue, and growing a hamburger in a lab just modifying the cell of the cow? Once I saw this article, I thought to myself: Isn't this GMOs (genetically modified organisms) which are extremely bad and people are trying to get rid of.) This is an article I found about GMOs.
http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/
It seems like GMOs are when they create a plant or animal out of an alternate gene, where the hamburger experiment was altering an already-existing cell from an organism (the cow).Even though they are different, they seem very similar because of the same idea. I wonder the health statistics on a regular hamburger (just the meat) and the hamburger in the experiment, and if experimental hamburgers or any foods are unhealthy. Overall, this article was very interesting.
This was a very interesting article. I remember reading about this in the Guiness Book of World Records. If we can grow our burgers in a lab, it would open up a ton of new opportunities for us. It would significantly decrease the amount of obesity in the USA because they are not made with the fat found in regular beef from livestock. It would also make science a FOOD INDUSTRY, that means science pretty much means the world to us. So many more people would get jobs in the science industry and that means better educated people, and more well-rounded people. It was interesting to know what other people thought the taste was like. I think if we want to make lab grown foods commercially available, we may have to find a way to make them taste better. Additionally, the price tag for a mediocre tasting, lab grown burger is a whopping 330,000 dollars. That is a lot more than people working at McDonalds will earn in a lifetime. Imagine going to a store, asking for a lab grown burger and then them saying: "That'll be 330,000 dollars. I think that in the end, if we can lower the price and up the taste, this will be THE alternative for meats produced from livestock. To think one burger could do all that.
Also, in the magazine Popular Science, it has a lot of great articles on genetically modified food. Sometime in 2016, the Arctic Granny apple will be on the shelves. It is a mix of a golden delicious and a granny smith, but has been genetically modified so the color of its skin is blue. Here is an interesting article on genetically modified food: http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/are-biotech-foods-safe-to-eat There is a lot of controversy about are genetically modified foods are safe to eat.
It is disgusting to know that people will eat artificial burgers. Too me, it seems like this food is inedible. I would never eat a burger made out of billions of lab-grown cells, egg powder, and beetroot juice. However, I did enjoy this article and found it really helpful. I don't think that people will be eating artificial food in 2050.
I think that this is truly disgusting that people think that in the future we will eat fake foods such as lab-grown burgers. The ingredients IN a burger should be grown, not all together out of gross alternatives. I think that the people were right to say that they tasted bland or awful. Cow cells are not an accurate way to make a burger, and it is disgusting that they can grow muscles from it to make food! Gross. This new tech will leave a terrible taste in your mouth.
Alright, first off, let me just voice my concerns about Richie's theorems. Let us first remember that this is in the first ever stages of development, will not be accepted for mass distribution for decades. There is no evidence that these new synthetic foods will be less fattening and healthier than the average burger. Take, for example, the shift to "fat-free" products in the 1960s, mostly in the US. The majority of people thought, "Oh look! A healthier option for the same price that tastes the same! Let's buy that!" Instead, these seemingly enhanced product were in fact loaded with other unhealthy components, such as copious amounts of sugar to make up for a lack of taste caused by removing fat. Also, science is already a food industry, and it has been ever since we started doing anything but getting food straight from the source to the mouth. A long time ago, humans started to make changes to food to further benefit them. Another tidbit of info is, with this change in science, people will not become better educated as a matter of course. I personally think that the people who will work on this will be the scientists of the past, not new scientists exploring new things. The one point you have that I DO agree with is about the price. That is going to be hard to afford and hard to lower. Thanks for listening, everybody!
P.S. Take no offense to this Richie, am simply spreading the knowledge of cold, hard science rather than opinions.
Conor, I see your point but you don't know if the burger contains the bad ingredients that you were talking about. Also, people have only just begun to genetically modify foods, they have not been doing that for years. Furthermore, fat-free foods did contain a lot more sugar, but for some people, the problem is not the sugar but the fat. Fat-free foods are not as bad as you make them sound.
P.S. No offense Conor but you should take into account the everyday diet of many humans is more fat laden than sugar laden.
I think that it is a great idea of artificial burger or food, but I just don't think we are ready for it yet. Right now food resources are still flourishing and I don't think we need artificial products right now. Of course this idea would help with food supply, and this might be what we need in the future. I found this article very interesting and look forward to getting to taste artificial food in the future. Like they said in the article though, this project is about a decade away so not anytime soon.
I think this is absolutely disgusting. I know technology is probably going to take over the world, but taking over food? And so soon? That is just sad. I read Siji's comment and and I looked at the article but I am not sure. I don't know if this is GMO, but maybe not because GMO is when genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering, which I don't think is happening to make this revolting burger. I couldn't exactly tell, which means this article doesn't give enough information about what they actually do to get the "burger". I think that the site is purposely steering away from that topic because it will only make people not want to eat it when they hear gruesome details. I think the way we get meat is gross enough, let alone ruining burgers by making them from factories. To answer the question that the site asked: Incredible or Inedible, I answer inedible, and unbelievably sad. I also just read Richie's comment. I think it is interesting how it would solve so many problems, but that doesn't change my opinion much. I don't think we should rely on science for food because if something goes awry than we might have nothing to turn to. Also, if people want to get in shape, they should do it themselves not eat science burgers instead of regular burgers as their only way.
Richie, let me start another chain of comments pertaining to your opinions. In your opening remark, you claim that I have no incriminating evidence. The only example I ever gave of these unhealthy additives to food products was high sugar levels, going as far as to be the highest concentrated component of an edible item. Later on in your rebuke, you state that you agree with the fact that sugar levels were raised. Therefore, you contradict your own point. Now let me backtrack a few comments: In your first statements, your original comment, you explained that the average wage of a McDonald's employee is miniscule compared to the cost of this meat. This was reasonably random, supplying no evidence to your case. You make another point like it in this comment. Saying that genetically modified foods are an invention new to the 21st century is not false, (although it's roots may have been in the late 20th century) but completely irrelevant all the same. Your last sentence claims that fat-free foods are not as harmful to the human body as my paragraph makes them sound. This is a logical fallacy. You say yourself that outrageous amounts of sugar are discreetly put into modern food items, and I am sure you will agree with me that high sugar levels can be very unhealthy and dangerous to our bodily systems. Therefore, you say yourself that these fat-free foods have many unhealthy qualities. That finishes my concise explanation of my reasoning.
P.S. I look forward to your rebuttal, this is an interesting chain of comments. :D
Talia, I want to say something about your amazing comment. First off, it had some nice humor, but furthermore, I want to congratulate you on your thesis about GMO's. I like how you note that GMO's are pre-existing, COMPLETE organisms that are modified in a lab, then allowed to reproduce. You distinguished that this meat is completely lab made. I just wanted to say I loved your article, and thought it was some great scientific facts. Thank you for your insight!
I thought that this article was cool. I remember reading it somewhere else, but I don't remember where. I think that it is very unlikely that we will turn to artificial foods in this century. As the article says, it took five years to grow one patty. And it also took $330,000 and a bunch of other stuff. It didn't even taste like meat. I completely agree with Grace and Paisley and a bunch of other people in the sense that I would be like "Eww" if someone came up to me and said "This is a hamburger patty that we grew in a lab. We don't know if it is safe to eat or if it tastes good. Can you eat it for us?" Even though within the current 21st century I don't believe that people will be eating lab grown meat, I can believe that they would eat something like lab grown candy. I believe that even though this might be a good use of food in maybe the 22nd century or the 23rd century, this happening today seems a little ahead of our time.
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"Ew." Walk up to the common person and tell them to eat an artificial burger. That is the response to this. But, they hid that this was artificial. The taste testers said that it reminded them of meat but it wasn't juicy. This is an AMAZING article, and I look forward to seeing if artificial foods ARE incredible, or inedible. Thanks Sarina for sharing this with us. This is a great article to learn about foods that aren't good.
Wasn't the whole process of taking cow cells, growing muscle tissue, and growing a hamburger in a lab just modifying the cell of the cow? Once I saw this article, I thought to myself: Isn't this GMOs (genetically modified organisms) which are extremely bad and people are trying to get rid of.) This is an article I found about GMOs.
http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/
It seems like GMOs are when they create a plant or animal out of an alternate gene, where the hamburger experiment was altering an already-existing cell from an organism (the cow).Even though they are different, they seem very similar because of the same idea. I wonder the health statistics on a regular hamburger (just the meat) and the hamburger in the experiment, and if experimental hamburgers or any foods are unhealthy. Overall, this article was very interesting.
This was a very interesting article. I remember reading about this in the Guiness Book of World Records. If we can grow our burgers in a lab, it would open up a ton of new opportunities for us. It would significantly decrease the amount of obesity in the USA because they are not made with the fat found in regular beef from livestock. It would also make science a FOOD INDUSTRY, that means science pretty much means the world to us. So many more people would get jobs in the science industry and that means better educated people, and more well-rounded people. It was interesting to know what other people thought the taste was like. I think if we want to make lab grown foods commercially available, we may have to find a way to make them taste better. Additionally, the price tag for a mediocre tasting, lab grown burger is a whopping 330,000 dollars. That is a lot more than people working at McDonalds will earn in a lifetime. Imagine going to a store, asking for a lab grown burger and then them saying: "That'll be 330,000 dollars. I think that in the end, if we can lower the price and up the taste, this will be THE alternative for meats produced from livestock. To think one burger could do all that.
Also, in the magazine Popular Science, it has a lot of great articles on genetically modified food. Sometime in 2016, the Arctic Granny apple will be on the shelves. It is a mix of a golden delicious and a granny smith, but has been genetically modified so the color of its skin is blue. Here is an interesting article on genetically modified food: http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/are-biotech-foods-safe-to-eat
There is a lot of controversy about are genetically modified foods are safe to eat.
It is disgusting to know that people will eat artificial burgers. Too me, it seems like this food is inedible. I would never eat a burger made out of billions of lab-grown cells, egg powder, and beetroot juice. However, I did enjoy this article and found it really helpful. I don't think that people will be eating artificial food in 2050.
I think that this is truly disgusting that people think that in the future we will eat fake foods such as lab-grown burgers. The ingredients IN a burger should be grown, not all together out of gross alternatives. I think that the people were right to say that they tasted bland or awful. Cow cells are not an accurate way to make a burger, and it is disgusting that they can grow muscles from it to make food! Gross. This new tech will leave a terrible taste in your mouth.
Alright, first off, let me just voice my concerns about Richie's theorems. Let us first remember that this is in the first ever stages of development, will not be accepted for mass distribution for decades. There is no evidence that these new synthetic foods will be less fattening and healthier than the average burger. Take, for example, the shift to "fat-free" products in the 1960s, mostly in the US. The majority of people thought, "Oh look! A healthier option for the same price that tastes the same! Let's buy that!" Instead, these seemingly enhanced product were in fact loaded with other unhealthy components, such as copious amounts of sugar to make up for a lack of taste caused by removing fat. Also, science is already a food industry, and it has been ever since we started doing anything but getting food straight from the source to the mouth. A long time ago, humans started to make changes to food to further benefit them. Another tidbit of info is, with this change in science, people will not become better educated as a matter of course. I personally think that the people who will work on this will be the scientists of the past, not new scientists exploring new things. The one point you have that I DO agree with is about the price. That is going to be hard to afford and hard to lower. Thanks for listening, everybody!
P.S. Take no offense to this Richie, am simply spreading the knowledge of cold, hard science rather than opinions.
Conor, I see your point but you don't know if the burger contains the bad ingredients that you were talking about. Also, people have only just begun to genetically modify foods, they have not been doing that for years. Furthermore, fat-free foods did contain a lot more sugar, but for some people, the problem is not the sugar but the fat. Fat-free foods are not as bad as you make them sound.
P.S. No offense Conor but you should take into account the everyday diet of many humans is more fat laden than sugar laden.
I think that it is a great idea of artificial burger or food, but I just don't think we are ready for it yet. Right now food resources are still flourishing and I don't think we need artificial products right now. Of course this idea would help with food supply, and this might be what we need in the future. I found this article very interesting and look forward to getting to taste artificial food in the future. Like they said in the article though, this project is about a decade away so not anytime soon.
I think this is absolutely disgusting. I know technology is probably going to take over the world, but taking over food? And so soon? That is just sad. I read Siji's comment and and I looked at the article but I am not sure. I don't know if this is GMO, but maybe not because GMO is when genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering, which I don't think is happening to make this revolting burger. I couldn't exactly tell, which means this article doesn't give enough information about what they actually do to get the "burger". I think that the site is purposely steering away from that topic because it will only make people not want to eat it when they hear gruesome details. I think the way we get meat is gross enough, let alone ruining burgers by making them from factories. To answer the question that the site asked: Incredible or Inedible, I answer inedible, and unbelievably sad.
I also just read Richie's comment. I think it is interesting how it would solve so many problems, but that doesn't change my opinion much. I don't think we should rely on science for food because if something goes awry than we might have nothing to turn to. Also, if people want to get in shape, they should do it themselves not eat science burgers instead of regular burgers as their only way.
Richie, let me start another chain of comments pertaining to your opinions. In your opening remark, you claim that I have no incriminating evidence. The only example I ever gave of these unhealthy additives to food products was high sugar levels, going as far as to be the highest concentrated component of an edible item. Later on in your rebuke, you state that you agree with the fact that sugar levels were raised. Therefore, you contradict your own point. Now let me backtrack a few comments: In your first statements, your original comment, you explained that the average wage of a McDonald's employee is miniscule compared to the cost of this meat. This was reasonably random, supplying no evidence to your case. You make another point like it in this comment. Saying that genetically modified foods are an invention new to the 21st century is not false, (although it's roots may have been in the late 20th century) but completely irrelevant all the same. Your last sentence claims that fat-free foods are not as harmful to the human body as my paragraph makes them sound. This is a logical fallacy. You say yourself that outrageous amounts of sugar are discreetly put into modern food items, and I am sure you will agree with me that high sugar levels can be very unhealthy and dangerous to our bodily systems. Therefore, you say yourself that these fat-free foods have many unhealthy qualities. That finishes my concise explanation of my reasoning.
P.S. I look forward to your rebuttal, this is an interesting chain of comments. :D
Talia, I want to say something about your amazing comment. First off, it had some nice humor, but furthermore, I want to congratulate you on your thesis about GMO's. I like how you note that GMO's are pre-existing, COMPLETE organisms that are modified in a lab, then allowed to reproduce. You distinguished that this meat is completely lab made. I just wanted to say I loved your article, and thought it was some great scientific facts. Thank you for your insight!
I thought that this article was cool. I remember reading it somewhere else, but I don't remember where. I think that it is very unlikely that we will turn to artificial foods in this century. As the article says, it took five years to grow one patty. And it also took $330,000 and a bunch of other stuff. It didn't even taste like meat. I completely agree with Grace and Paisley and a bunch of other people in the sense that I would be like "Eww" if someone came up to me and said "This is a hamburger patty that we grew in a lab. We don't know if it is safe to eat or if it tastes good. Can you eat it for us?" Even though within the current 21st century I don't believe that people will be eating lab grown meat, I can believe that they would eat something like lab grown candy. I believe that even though this might be a good use of food in maybe the 22nd century or the 23rd century, this happening today seems a little ahead of our time.
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