Is 3D meat edible that is the question??

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After investigating whether 3D meat consumption is dangerous to the human body, sadly there isn’t enough information regarding any side effects or future complications due to consuming 3D meat. As mention in previous post the company Modern Meadow is in the process of researching and finding ways in how to create edible meat, as well as creating leather as fabric.

After watching a TEDMED presentation of Dr. Gabor Forgacs on October 2011, founder of Modern Meadow, eating a pork chop. There is no doubt in my mind that this process of 3D meat has the potential of being a substitute of meat. Although there may be no recent discovers of whether 3D meat is good or bad for human consumption. It is clear that engineer meat will benefit many worldwide issues such as world hunger, deforestation, fossil fuel dependency, animal cruelty, and climate change.

Modern Meadow is also aware of trying to make 3D meat to have a similar taste and texture as of real meat. They believe this will be very important in order to satisfy peoples craving of meat taste and will attract skeptics to be more open to accept this type of meat. The project has already received a $92,000 Small Business Innovation Research phase one grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a $350,000 grant from Breakout Labs. Even the president of PETA Ingrid Newkirk, has also approved of Modern Meadow’s mission stating that “People who find it hard to remove themselves from eating meat will have something they can eat that is not cruel, that will be cleaner and will be far less resource intensive than factory farming.” I’m hoping that there research is a success and it will be very interested to see how 3D meat will be marketed to consumer in order to change their perception of engineer meat. I will stay tune.

Sources used:

http://www.inc.com/john-mcdermott/big-ideas/modern-meadow-in-vitro-meat.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57493377-76/3d-printed-meat-its-whats-for-dinner/

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