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By: this just in: help our nations farms!! « Chefs Like Us

this just in: help our nations farms!! « Chefs Like Us — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:10:43 +0000

[...] to table, local food, no farms no food After reading Cris Cosetinos blog about shmeat I’m downright alarmed as to where this country is headed in the way it eats. I almost told [...]

By: cdog

cdog — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:08:03 +0000

Shmeat is such a horrible name, it sounds like what you get when you cross shit and meat.

By: christopherpepe

christopherpepe — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:17:43 +0000

There is little I have to say that’s not already in the article. Our hubris will be our undoing. I can’t believe that cells multiplying on a “spongy scaffold” will become a common food and I can’t buy lungs anywhere.

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:09:42 +0000

PS Just read the article, and I must say, being a microbiologist I found it very interesting. I think it is fine, but for one thing. Labeling. The US meat industry must claim their names, right down to the cut. A shmeat product should not call itself a burger, since burgers must be made of beef. (same with the turkey burger people!). You cant have a chicken porterhouse, how can you have a shmeat porterhouse? This is about welshing off of someone else’s cultural branding (just look how the EU gets on its wine, cheese, ect). If they can crack down on this, they can crack down on those soy turkey and turkey bacon guys too. If your turkey bacon is not made from turkey belly, its not turkey bacon! Forget taste, we cant even get our terminology right around here.

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:54:12 +0000

Dario, you are right! Pasta fagioli should be the food of the future. You cant fake meat, and good beans are great food! The question is, what is the best way to oppose this kind of stuff? I will do what I can form my humble blog, facebook, ect. Who do I need to write (have people write) in congress to counter act PETAs lobbyists?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:55:21 +0000

I don’t feel proud saying this but I work in the processed food industry on cost reduction projects, and I know without a doubt that if this product is developed it will be used as extensively. Chris, you’re exactly right. Children from a very young age will be even more distanced from where their food comes from. The only positive thing from this science could possibly be the cloning of human organ tissue for transplantation.

By: Dario

Dario — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:49:31 +0000

Pasta e fagioli, that’s a complete meal.
And veggie too!