Vat Grown Meat

> Here's an example of technology that may be common on Habitats and
> relieve the stress on the food chain that requires farm animals to
> inefficiently convert plant matter into meat.

This is very cool. I have wondered just what could be done with tissue
engineering (leather? fur? ivory?), but my attempts to contact those
who would have any idea have met with abject failure.

> Further, it'll reduce the amount of personnel that will have to work
> in a slaughterhouse (yuck! - imagine immigrating to orbit in order to
> work in a slaugherhouse. :)

Well, but what if I already work in a slaughterhouse? Going to space
and working in another slaughterhouse wouldn't seem all that bad to me
under those circumstances. Especially if it pays more than my Earth-
bound job (or has better benifits), or if I have dreamt of going into
space since I was a widdle kid (I have).