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Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork meat in a laboratory with the goal of feeding millions without the need to raise and slaughter animals.

Interesting... but pretty icky. I know plenty of people who won't even eat soy based meat substitutes, I can't imagine them downing meat grown in a petri dish. But, as the article touches on, it could help with world hunger and environmental issues.

Reminds me of Eric Drexler's nanotech meat box idea- at least in the sense that its the engineering of meat without the animal.
On that note, I used to always wonder if some kind up cult would spring up around the last cow slaughtered- the one that provided the molecular basis for every reproduction afterwards. She'd be the cow that sacrificed so that no other cows would have to die. A sacred cow, if you will. (ha ha, at least I entertain myself).