Tastes Like Chicken: The Quest for Fake Meat

[Troy]

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1993883,00.html?hpt=C2#ixzz0q70YzAlf

[MSUredux]

No thanks, just what I want, fake chicken meat that has to have chemicals added to make it taste like chicken.

[Dark Angel]

Fake chicken that smells like fish?

[BitBender]

Guys..guys - That's just Case recycling the local Democraps... :up2some:

Fake chicken that smells like fish?Mate - That's Nancy Pelosi :hehe:

[casca]

Well, there is always solyent green, made from recycled people, the ultimate in "green technology".

So democrats are soylent green, does that mean conservatives are soylent red?

They already have fake food from soybean.

[Case]

:lol:

What I find funny is that it was developed in Missouri. Missouri is like second in the nation for beef production, and I think third for pork. Don't know where it stands on chickens, but there is a chicken farm just down the road aways. So why, in this meat producin', meat eatin' state, they would come up with fake meat products, is beyond me . . . :dunno:

[Dark Angel]

Trying to cover the whole market, I'd say. There's a growing number of people dropping meat entirely or cutting down severely for perceived health reasons or just cost and someone has to supply all the tofu etc to California.

[casca]

Yea, maybe we can trade fake meat to the chinese to get our fake money back.

The ability of America to produce food and food replacements (see jenny craig) is proof positive that our capitalist system, however imperfect provides enough sustence for more people on less acreage than anytime in any means of records, geological or written.

The only reason people starve in the world is that America is not allowed to distribute the food through the various agencies we have created and that includes the UN. These "treasured cultures" that people wring their hands over are slowly starving under the antique philosophy of strong man rule, tribal, religious bigotry and other human evils.

Somali was a good example, lots of food, warlords wanted the food to control the population and force them to look to the warlord for survival instead of opening the country to popular rule by vote of the individual.

If one opposes the use of force to free people from oppression, then one cannot use the oppressed as an example of utopia. Despite claims of amazing things the Cubans don't manufacture much of anything, starvation is avoided by government food rationing, gasoline rationing, and god forbid you say something against the estasblishment. Sorta like saying something bad about Obama, the brown shirts are everywhere.

[Case]

. . . The ability of America to produce food and food replacements . . . is proof positive that our capitalist system, however imperfect provides enough sustenance for more people on less acreage than anytime in any means of records, geological or written . . .

I actually think that there are a lot more productive ways of growing food than what we use in the United States ie. “modern agriculture”. We don't have very many farmers anymore, we have “growers” and “producers” - these are industrial age terms for industrial age agriculture. American agriculture is successful largely because of the economics of scale, and even more largely due to the abundant availability of cheap petroleum. Oil translates to fertilizers, tractors, trucks, shipping . . . you get the idea. Fact – without oil, the only people making money in agriculture would be the Amish.

But more importantly, and more to the point I'm trying to make – it isn't any man made system of philosophy or government or economics that has made this country the breadbasket of the world – it is because this is a blessed land. Blessed by God with fertile plains, abundant rain, continental-wide river systems linking to ocean ports, temperate climate – America is in this regard like no other place on earth. An argument might be made that this greatness is only an advantage when taken up by an industrious people, and I would concede that – but what I'm saying is that you could take the American system of agriculture anywhere else in the world and it would not be as effective at producing food. It only works that way here.

[casca]

Case I grant you that point, but I reiterate the point that we are not allowed to feed the starving by local authorities looking to maintain their grip on the population, then the left tries to lay the blame on America instead of the culture/people themselves.

We would feed them for cost or even less given the long standing aid programs that could be converted from money gifts (diverted into bank accounts) into food, roads and sanitation, with modern water recycling as well.

No, the trouble lies not in the stars my friend, but in that part of us that refuses to go the distance when starvation is used as a control.

For god's sake we are using corn for cat litter while people starve in Africa, granted I don;t want to have feed them forever, but a little food while they learn to "fish for themselves" is not a bad idea, perhaps even tje decent thing to do.

[Troy]

No, the trouble lies not in the stars my friend, but in that part of us that refuses to go the distance when starvation is used as a control.

For god's sake we are using corn for cat litter while people starve in Africa, granted I don;t want to have feed them forever, but a little food while they learn to "fish for themselves" is not a bad idea, perhaps even tje decent thing to do.

Keep in mind, over 40% of them are Muslims.:up2some: