The Future of Meat: Printable Animal Organs

Why, my slathering tongue salivates but to think on it...

The meat in the supermarket is abstract, square and habitually made from wickedly manifactured animals. A friend once told me he only eats meat if he “can not recognize the animal in it”. I felt this was a disturbing remark, but this ‘consumers preference’ may also bring opportunities: disengage the animal from the meat.

According to researchers, Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale. Winston Churchil, a carnivore to the core, already in 1936 predicted that “we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Today, growing meat in the lab still seems the stuff of science fiction, but reality is not far behind.

The picture is from a project by James King, who is scanning the countryside looking for the most exquisite and beautiful cows, pigs and chickens. When he finds them, he will scan them from head to toe and make molds of their inner organs, which he will then use to print "designer" meat.

Someone should scan a human this way and print designer cannibalistic cutlets out of pork.

The tissue engineered Meat of Tomorrow [Next Nature]