{"id":7341,"date":"2016-02-07T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T22:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7341"},"modified":"2016-03-22T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:20:42","slug":"test-tube-meatballs-are-not-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/07\/test-tube-meatballs-are-not-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Test-Tube Meatballs Are Not Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3428438\/First-test-tube-MEATBALL-revealed-Startup-claims-lab-grown-meat-shelves-three-years-says-raising-animals-eat-soon-unthinkable.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>First test-tube MEATBALL revealed: Startup claims lab grown meat will be on shelves within three years and says raising animals to eat will soon be &#8216;unthinkable&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p>By <a class=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Stacy+Liberatore+For+Dailymail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"molvideoplayer\" title=\"MailOnline Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/embed\/video\/1249083.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>The firm says technique produces 90 percent less greenhouse emissions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Begins by isolating cow and pig cells that have the ability to regenerate<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Costs $18,000 to make 1lb ground beef, compared to $4 in US grocery store<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Working on plant-based alternative to replace fetal bovine serum<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Test-tube meat is getting closer to leaving the lab and being served on our plates.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.memphismeats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Memphis Meats<\/a>, which grows meat from animal cells, says it hopes to have its animal-free products on the market in three to four years &#8211; and has unveiled the first lab-grown meatball to the public.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of several firms developed &#8216;test tube meats&#8217; that could one day be cheaper and more environmentally friendly to produce than traditional farming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is absolutely the future of meat,&#8217; said Memphis Meats CEO Uma Valeti.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We plan to do to the meat industry what the car did to the horse and buggy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cultured meat will completely replace the status quo and make raising animals to eat them simply unthinkable.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The firm has been growing real meat in small quantities using cells from cows, pigs and chickens, he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We love meat. But like most Americans, we don&#8217;t love the many negative side effects of conventional meat production: environmental degradation, a slew of health risks, and food products that contain antibiotics, fecal matter, pathogens, and other contaminants,&#8217; the firm says on its website.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3428438\/First-test-tube-MEATBALL-revealed-Startup-claims-lab-grown-meat-shelves-three-years-says-raising-animals-eat-soon-unthinkable.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Daily Mail<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Mail First test-tube MEATBALL revealed: Startup claims lab grown meat will be on shelves within three years and says raising animals to eat will soon be &#8216;unthinkable&#8217; By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM The firm says technique produces 90 percent less greenhouse emissions Begins by isolating cow and pig cells that have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}