Microbial food - Now THIS is appropriate biotech:

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"Fifty years hence we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium."
~Winston Churchill
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From:
Radical Science Aims to Solve Food Crisis
by Clara Moscowitz 4/23/8
livescience.com/environment/080423-food-shortage.html
...Researchers are hard at work on animal-free meat. Scientists, such as Henk Haagsman, a professor of meat science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, are growing synthetic meat with the help of animal stem cells. When fed with glucose, amino acids, minerals and growth factors, the stem cells can grow into muscle tissue, which the researchers say tastes a lot like ground meat.
Though it may sound far-fetched, proponents of so-called cultivated meat say this could be a key to solving world hunger problems.
"The benefits could be enormous," said Jason Matheny, the director of New Harvest, a non-profit organization that funds research on in vitro meat. "The demand for meat is increasing worldwide ... With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply. And you could do it in a way that's better for the environment and human health. In the long term, this is a very feasible idea."...
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new-harvest.org
jgmatheny.org
"... working to develop new meat substitutes, including cultured meat — meat produced in vitro, in a cell culture, rather than from an animal.
Because meat substitutes are produced under controlled conditions impossible to maintain in traditional animal farms, they can be safer, more nutritious, less polluting, and more humane than conventional meat..."
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From:
In Vitro Meat, a More Humane Treat
by Abigail Paris 5/22/8
http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/000054
invitromeat.org
...Traditional methods of assembly-line meat production require not only ever-increasing inputs of corn, soy, and other grains, but also enormous amounts of energy...In 1932, Winston Churchill said, "Fifty years hence we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium." The timing of his prediction proved ambitious, but the technology is becoming attainable.
Animal-free in vitro meat may present a partial solution to hunger. Jason Matheny, director of New Harvest, a nonprofit that funds research on in vitro meat, says that a single cell could produce the annual meat supply for the entire world. And it can be done in a way that's better for the environment and human health than raising livestock.
Researchers started working with in vitro proteins in the late 1990s, originally developing the idea as a way to create food for astronauts on long space missions. The first edible muscle protein was created from a goldfish in 2000, promising industry-wide change. In June 2007, the In Vitro Meat Consortium was created to form an "international alliance of environmentally concerned scientists" that want large-scale in vitro meat production.
In order for animal stem cells to divide and multiply...they are placed in a nutrient-rich medium and then grown in a bioreactor...
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agbioworld.org/links/index.html
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ethicalbloggerproject.blogspot.com
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greenwashing, slave labor, oil addiction, advertising
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=32IkX6K-g4w
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From:
Rainforest Action Network
ran.org
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understory.ran.org/2008/05/28/chevron-quickly-becoming-one-of-my-least-favorite-companies-on-the-planet
Big oil is responsible for a lot of heinous crimes. They fund death squads cloaked as “private security” and help install brutal dictatorships that are friendly to their business...
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ran.org/media_center/news_article/?uid=4760
Bunge Biofuels: Driving World Hunger...
Bunge is burning down native old growth forests to process soy in South America and profiting from the use of slave labor...
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i-sis.org.uk/biotechnology.php
irina-ermakova.by.ru/eng/index.htm
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Pacific Coast Turning More Acidic
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2008/2008052226903.html
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/
"...reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment..."
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deerimbaud.blogspot.com
...It was perhaps George Orwell who first truly gave voice to the idea that by repressing people's sexuality you could control them, in his profound and dispiriting novel, "1984". Of course, he wasn't the first person to know this fact. The Christian church, in its bid for world dominance used sexual repression as its main tool of control since its inception...
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national sustainability links
noisettesc.com/guide_nationallistings.html
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environmentalintegrity.org
dirtykilowatts.org
healthyfish.net
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Sustainable Energy and Economic Development
seedcoalition.org
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Middle East Peace Forum of Pittsburgh
mepfp.org