Frankenfoods?!

While I am a meat eater (who doesn't, as it happens, have a problem with genetic modification in principle), I find this idea distasteful. It seems to be mainly applicable to ground/minced meat products, anyway, which, for me, would limit my enjoyment. When they can produce a pork chop or a good fillet steak, I might become a little more interested. I don't see that the meat produced, in any case, would be as nutritious or as tasty as real meat from an animal which has actually used the muscles. It seems to me that it would be bland, flavourless and with the ghastly non-texture of 'mechanically recovered meat'. Since it is perfectly possible to make acceptable protein of this sort from vegetable products, I don't really see the point or the need to create 'meat' artificially in this way. The sensible answer to a shortage of meat is surely to educate and encourage people to eat less of it! I was interested to see in the poll at the bottom that, out of nearly 8000 replies, 52% said they would not eat it and 48% said they might try it.

It is an interesting concept definitely - I am thinking if it works I would feel better knowing no animals were killed for my food but, I guess those famrers would suffer badly and a lot of people would be jobless in that industry!

Nope, I do not want genetically altered "meats" of any kind, thank you. I want the real thing, and I only accept "parts is parts" on certain limited items, such as sausages, and those "parts" had still better come from a real animal and not an imitation one.