Vat Grown Meat

Good point. My father went to Saudi Arabia to work for
Aramco in 1947 as a meat cutter. The job payed 2.5
times as much as he could make in the US and gave 6
weeks paid vacation per year. Not at all bad for those
days,,,wonder if we'll be able to do as well in orbit?

Gary 7

>
> > 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).
>
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