📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. Patricia: I don’t know about this. It still all looks engineered processed and unappetizing to me! The idea of the process of creating cultrured meats; chicken, pork, beef: Let’s face it; things are getting more and more bizarre by the day. This is just one more thing to have to deal with. I pray constantly that we exit, straight up. Living a normal life is getting next to impossible. Reading food labels constantly is tedious. Being a science geek I have an advantage over others as far as labels go. Rule of thumb: if you cannot pronounce it, maybe you shouldn’t be eating it. One thing for sure, stay away from hydrogenated oils found in margarine, CoolWhip, and many baked goods. No ifs, ands, or buts, it is bad for everyone. It’s fake fat, clogs arteries, and produces leaky cell membranes. This is substantiated. Totally unsafe Back in 1973 I did research at University. I had my blood drawn, put in a centrifuge, and separated into layers: plasma came to the top, white blood cells were in the middle, and red blood cells settled to the bottom. I drew the white blood cells off from the middle, gave them the proper nutrients, and incubated them at 98.6 degrees. They divided over a period of time producing many cells. I then added a chemical called colchicine to stop white blood cell division at a stage when the chromosomes were short and thick making them easier to observe under a scope. A microscope slide can be made, a camera mounted on the scope, and pics can be taken. The chromosomes then can be easily observed and examined. Google “karyotyping” if interested. All 46 chromosomes can be observed, XX or XY can be located, and any genetic abnormalities observed (Downs Syndrome). So growing cells in a lab for research is nothing new. BUT using this process for animal food production is another story and very unappetizing. I also believe the safety and quality of the “food” produced would be suspect. I don’t trust many people in science anymore for obvious reasons. God wants us to grow our food, but I don’t think this is what He has in mind. Needless to say, experimenting with fertilized human eggs or embryos is downright wrong. I don't know about this. It seems like they are playing God, using real cells to make meat.
