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by Anonymous on November 7th, 2009

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A cow eats grass and drinks water. The grass and water then go through a process which turns them into meat on the cow. Is it possible to take grass and water and artificially make beef from them without having to kill a cow?

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  • by Moongrim on November 7th, 2009

    Moongrim

    Not at our current level of technology.

    We'd have to resequence proteins from their constitutent atoms to do that.

    Realm of Star Trek.

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  • by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on November 7th, 2009

    Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot

    And they say there are no stupid questions.

  • by RANDOM on November 7th, 2009

    RANDOM

    well it is an industry, that is in the business of producing beef, now you have many meat produces, sheep, pigs ,chicken, even fish are now harvested in big number, our food chains need the industry, so we can all all stop eating meat ,and then we would not have to breed and grow our meat industry.so there is no other way and it is called supply and demand.+4

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  • by Gene H on November 7th, 2009

    Gene H

    I suppose. But you'd still have to kill the big blob of meat you made, so. . .?

  • by mother earth on November 7th, 2009

    mother earth

    See the article

    Meat of the future may be grown in a lab

    http://www.grist.org/article/lab_meat

    It took me a while to find this article, even though I have seen more than one documentary that included the process. One day we will be able to ask for 'Tea..Earl Gray..Hot' and 'beef...T-bone...medium rare' from the same machine.

  • by norm on November 7th, 2009

    norm

    Let's differentiate between cows (which are female) and cattle. The latter can be of either sex, and dpeending on breed can produce meat.

    Seems to me the male cattle can produce more lean and tender meat than the females. I'm taking that from the man's point of view.

    Range fed cattle, buffalo, are better than most.

    Buffalo are lean and tender.

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