Yuck- Bioengineered Stem-cell Burgers.

2011-“Huffington Post” Report: on bioengineering project of scientists worldwide who been working on growing meat “cultures” in laboratories.

University of Maastricht in the Netherlands have claimed to be about one year away from presenting their prototype of the world’s first bioengineered, synthetic hamburger.

2012, “The Economist”, described research led by Dr. Mark Post at Eindhoven University,  with details how this synthetic food  works as follows:

“(the) cultures, grown from stem cells, are sheets 3 cm long, 1.5 cm wide and half a millimeter deep… the stem cells themselves are extracted from cattle muscle and then multiplied a millionfold before they are put in Petri dishes and allowed to turn into muscle cells… The fatty cells of adipose tissue, needed for juiciness, are grown separately and then combined with the muscle cells before the whole thing is cooked.”
Sounds yuck to my little mind as I wonder how to determine what health effects they will have on humans.

Such bioengineered meats could very possibly begin replacing the already-processed  additive saturated meat products used today. Even  the packaging paper being designed for these new ‘burgers’ is a prototype made of silver nanoparticles, added to the paper by an ultrasound-like process, and designed to fight food-borne bacteria such as E. coli. Do I want that touching my family food with  unpredicted side effects with our generations as  human test subjects.
DrNicholas Genovese, a worker in a meat-growing lab, told Reuters, “there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner… society has accepted these products.”