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Originally Posted by griffonwing
Actually, I'm sure they can give this Mystery Meat any possible taste. Chicken, snake, squirrel, squid, shark, duck, whatever.
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I was presuming that as a culture of the muscle cells of a specific animal, it would taste like meat from that animal. It could be hard to get the texture right, though. The muscle cells might need to be stimulated to flex while growing.
I'm not sure how I feel about the idea, myself. I don't know as it would really use less resources than raising animals on their natural diets, for one thing. And I don't really miss eating meat.
I think the meat we typically get (at least in US supermarkets) is so processed that there might not be much difference in "naturalness" between it and cultured cells, though. All kinds of stuff gets injected, sprayed on, etc. I know organic foods are more expensive right now, but maybe if more of us made a point of buying them, the cost would come down as volume goes up. At least they're getting easier to find these days.