Jumpin' Jimminy! We're growing meat from stem cells in Charleston! That is to say, we WERE growing meat from animal stem cells in Charleston. The paper referred to it as a "meat lab". According to the Charleston Post and Courier newspaper article photographed at left (which you can link: HERE), the Medical University of South Carolina suspended the Director of the project for insubordination and "unacceptable behavior". The article also contained the following: "While the future of the meat lab remains uncertain, the suspension also calls into question the future of a separate project, a $20 million effort that aims to create human organs from a person's own stem cells". Hmmm. The Director in charge of the "meat from animal stem cells" is suspended, and the project for harvesting organs from human stem cells is in jeopardy. Anybody remember the early seventies Charlton Heston Sci-Fi movie Soylent Green?Thursday, February 17, 2011
Food for Thought.
Jumpin' Jimminy! We're growing meat from stem cells in Charleston! That is to say, we WERE growing meat from animal stem cells in Charleston. The paper referred to it as a "meat lab". According to the Charleston Post and Courier newspaper article photographed at left (which you can link: HERE), the Medical University of South Carolina suspended the Director of the project for insubordination and "unacceptable behavior". The article also contained the following: "While the future of the meat lab remains uncertain, the suspension also calls into question the future of a separate project, a $20 million effort that aims to create human organs from a person's own stem cells". Hmmm. The Director in charge of the "meat from animal stem cells" is suspended, and the project for harvesting organs from human stem cells is in jeopardy. Anybody remember the early seventies Charlton Heston Sci-Fi movie Soylent Green?
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This is scary stuff!!! fdb
'Tis, Frandy. And this guy was even interviewed by Stephen Colbert (also from Charleston) on the Colbert Report a year ago. The bit is at the end of the news article (pretty funny, too).
Looks like I'll never get to use "The Donner Pass Cookbook" from EBay.
Yeah, J.D., you might oughta have that sent to a P.O. box, rather than a home address... The Donner Party is one of the few groups where aggrieved people were generally asked "Who" rather than "what" was eating eating them.
Just another reason to be vegetarian :)
The kind of weird thing about the whole "meat lab", Star, was that PETA funded it. Vegetarianism? Not yet. I eat a whole lot more vegetables and a whole lot less meat than I used to, but I still like a steak once in awhile.
Eat Steak, eat steak, eat a big old Steer!
Stem cells, sweet breads, monkey feet, it's the food chain man, and I'm happy to be part of the Circle of Life!
Sean Rush Beck
Well, Sean, like they said in the 1980 B-Movie, Motel Hell, "meat's meat, and a man's gotta eat".
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