Ok. I know I'm a bit out there. But YT, you have to back me up here. I'm going to take the next step and remove "life" from the process of producing muscle tissue. This is pure speculation, folks, born from reading and writing too much science fiction. That being said, I'm all for artificially grown meat, but not the cloned variety. I think we can do it one better. Let's say you have a piece of perfectly marbled Wagyu or kolbe beef. Let's also extrapolate a bit here. Now I know that skin can be grown in special nutrient rich baths from a donor's skin, and is used for grafting where skin is lost due to abrasion and burns. This creates skin that is identicle to the donor's own skin and so elliminates the possibility of rejection. So, why couldn't we do the same thing with muscle tissue? Grow it on a prepared matix in a nutrient rich bath that provides all of the chmicals, minerals, enzymes, hormones, carbs, etc. that normal muscle tissue gets from the blood and endocrine systems in the cow. You could hten taylor the flavor and texture of the meat to the customer's needs. You want flank steak, Ok, the manufacturer grows flank steak. You want rib-eye, then he grows rib-eye. The beauty of this is that it elliminates the need for slaughtering a living creature. There is no life, just working muscle tissue. After all, our bodies are organic machines used to house our intelligence and allow that intelligence the ability to interface with the physical universe (or so I choose to believe).
If the conditions for muscle growth could be exactly duplicated, then why not grow meat?
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North