Saturday, September 5, 2009

Fish Without a Face

Delicious looking Salmon, yes? You're right, it is delicious. Most remarkably, it's from a faceless fish! It's also healthier, safer, less polluting, and produced more humanely than conventional fish. After years of untiring development, beautifulScience has achieved the goal of growing fish meat from cultured cells! Essentially, particular cell samples are extracted from a conventional fish & then proliferated in a nutrient-rich medium in the laboratory. In-vitro fish meat!

With this control over the growth process, inedible animal structures (bones, respiratory system, digestive system, skin/scales, eyes, mouth, and the nervous system) are not grown. As a result, cultured fish production is more efficient in its use of energy, land, and water; and it produces less waste. Also, animals are not subjected to the stressful conditions of traditional fish-farms & large-net fishing operations.

Resident Bioethicist, Kapa W. Azzurro, remarked, "This is an amazing breakthrough with numerous positive implications for the environment, human nutrition, and the ethical treatment of animals." What's next? "We're very close to producing nutritionally advanced meat products from the cells of land animals. Imagine, deliciously juicy steaks made from face-less cows!", she added.

5 comments:

  1. preservation of our friends with fins ?
    guilt free sushi ??
    as vegan who still craves the "taste of the deep" my my gratitude to the innovators at BL.
    Mr. Scott , this one is a game changer !

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  2. This looks very very awesome. I'd be interested to see how it tastes.

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  3. Are BL labs really Green ?

    what is the carbon off-set for lab produced fish flesh vrs.the biologically derived "original"?

    a recent issue of Science suggested that in order to scale the BL technology to meet global consumption by 2012, a growroom
    roughly the surface area of the pacific ocean would be required !

    This reader asks: if the planet already has a belt, does it need a set of suspenders ?

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  4. Are BL labs really Green ?

    what is the carbon off-set for lab produced fish flesh vrs.the biologically derived "original"?

    a recent issue of Science suggested that in order to scale the BL technology to meet global consumption by 2012, a growroom
    roughly the surface area of the pacific ocean would be required !

    This reader asks: if the planet already has a belt, does it need a set of suspenders ?

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  5. Re: "if the planet already has a belt, does it need a set of suspenders?"

    A man with a really big belly may wear a belt but still needs suspenders to keep his pants from falling down.

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