According to my paranoid friends at Unknown Country:
"In a recent issue of Tissue Engineering, Agricultural expert Jason Matheny writes about two new techniques of tissue engineering that may one day produce in-vitro (lab grown) meat for human consumption."
First of all, there's a magazine called "Tissue Engineering?" I have to look that up. Wait, there's more!
Is it possible to create an edible product that tastes like beef, poultry, pork, lamb or fish and also has the nutrients and texture of the real thing? Scientists know how to isolate a single muscle cell from a cow or chicken and let it divide into thousands of new muscle cells. NASA has experimented with creating small amounts of food products for long-term space travel, where storage is a problem. But Matheny says, "We need a different approach for large scale production." He wants to grow the cells in large flat sheets on thin membranes. The sheets of meat would be grown and stretched, then removed from the membranes and stacked on top of one another to increase thickness.
Homer says, "Mmm... sheets of meat."
