Tagged: artificial meat

The science behind the Impossible Burger - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jul 05, 2018 •

• Air New Zealand,
• artificial meat,
• genetic modification,
• gmo,
• Impossible Burger,
• Impossible Foods,
• leghaemoglobin,
• Royal Society,
• Royal Society Te Apārangi,
• soy

Air New Zealand has just announced The Impossible Burger is now available to a minuscule number of their customers, a move described as an “existential threat” by New Zealand First’s Mark Patterson. So what is all the fuss is about? This week, Air New Zealand announced that Business Premier “foodies” on their Los Angeles to Auckland flights would be able … Read More

Is synthetic meat ethical? - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Nov 30, 2017 •

• animals,
• artificial meat,
• consuming science,
• ethics,
• food,
• Health and Medicine,
• meat,
• Science,
• sunfed foods,
• synthetic meat,
• Vegetarianism

I am deeply ashamed of it now – but at the time it seemed like an experience I couldn’t afford to miss. It was so exotic – and I was travelling. Twenty years ago I ate at a restaurant in Johannesburg, the Republic of South Africa,  which specialised in meat dishes – from game animals. It was a real feast. Stews of … Read More

No animal required, but would people eat artificial meat? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 24, 2017 •

• artificial meat,
• Diet,
• food,
• lab-grown meat,
• meat

By Clive Phillips, The University of Queensland and Matti Wilks, The University of Queensland Futurists tell us that we will be eating in vitro meat (IVM) – meat grown in a laboratory rather than on a farm – within five to ten years. IVM was first investigated in the early years of this century and … Read More