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Garry Rayno's State House Dome: Expect gambling bill to pass Senate panel
The bill is backed by Gov. Maggie Hassan, who counts on $80 million in casino licensing fees to help balance her budget.
Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Odell predicts a 4-1 vote in favor, with him the lone dissenter. Prime sponsors Lou D'Allesandro and Chuck Morse are committee members.
The bill will have little trouble passing the Senate. The fight has always been in the House, and last week the odds changed a little.
The House has never passed a bill expanding gambling by adding video slots or table games, and even the most promising estimates indicate SB 152 may be at least 20 to 30 votes short of passage.
However, the dynamics have changed this year because of Massachusetts' approval of three casinos and a slot barn, which will make it much easier for New Hampshire residents to spend some of their discretionary income.
Lawmakers have to be concerned about taxes, particularly the Democrats, who control the House and who were tossed out in 2010 largely because of such things as the LLC and campground taxes.
And this is the first time a governor has backed a specific plan and advocated for it, by even including the revenue in her budget.
Meanwhile, public opinion has changed. A recent University of New Hampshire poll suggests about 60 percent of the state's residents support gambling as a way to pay for state services over options such as increasing property taxes or instituting a sales or income taxes.
Until last week, the biggest hurdle for supporters had been overcoming the perception that SB 152 was wired for Millennium Gaming, which has an option on Rockingham Park, the once-proud horse racing facility that is now more a simulcast-and-charity-gaming mecca.
The non-artisan New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies released a long-awaited report on what a casino would mean to the state financially. The center found a casino similar to that proposed in SB 152 would offer no net financial gain for the state and could even be a financial burden when social and regulatory costs are considered.
Casino supporters and opponents will argue long and hard about the report's assumptions and what the true social costs would be, but the reality is the report made it more difficult for SB 152 to pass the House.
Hassan tried to box in the House by including the gaming revenue in her proposed budget - pass gambling or cut the money added for higher education, hospitals and the mental health system - but once again the House has a mind of its own.
The House Ways and Means Committee did not include any gaming money in its revenue estimates for the next two years, and the House Finance Committee is looking for "savings" to make up for the $80 million in proposed gaming revenue.
House Speaker Terie Norelli has long been an opponent of expanded gambling, but did not dismiss it out of hand after Hassan's budget address.
She can talk about gambling being a vote of conscience for House members, but does anyone think Norelli wants to be the speaker who finally got gambling through the House?
Casino supporters certainly have much work to do before June.
GAS TAX BLUES: The other big revenue raiser before the Legislature this session, increasing the gas tax, had a hard time.
The House was set to take a preliminary vote Wednesday on the proposed 15 cent increase over the next four years, but the session was canceled because of the storm.
Waiting a week may be a good thing for supporters after House Public Works and Highways Committee Chairman David Campbell of Nashua, the prime sponsor, sent an email to his fellow House chairs and vice chairs saying the increase would be the "gift that keeps on giving" and noted uncollected gas tax refunds would provide $658,000 for the state's general fund, $1.25 million for Fish & Game and $593,000 for trail upkeep.
"As my father used to say, 'don't spend it all in one place!'" Campbell wrote.
Former Speaker William O'Brien jumped in with both feet, and the bleeding began.
Campbell appeared before his committee Tuesday and said he was sorry he gave some people a thread to pull to try to unravel the proposal.
While the gas tax increase appeared to be a pretty safe bet in the House, its fate was far less certain in the Senate, and the brouhaha certainly did not help its chances, as some Democrats are getting cold feet.
The bill is likely to pass Wednesday and go to Ways and Means for review, where it may well be reduced.
A little time away from the spotlight in Ways and Means will let things cool down a little before the real vote on the bill is taken later this month.
FOOT IN MOUTH: Campbell was not the only House member apologizing for something said last week.
Goffstown Rep. Mark Warden garnered lots of attention when he said, "Some people could make the argument that a lot of people like being in abusive relationships. It's a love-hate relationship. It's very, very common for people to stick around with somebody they love who also abuses him or her."
He made the remark while the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee discussed a bill to reduce the penalty for assault in domestic violence and some other cases.
The video went viral on the social networks, and Warden sort of apologized.
NEW POST: Greg Moore, former O'Brien chief of staff and longtime political operative, has a new job. He is now the New Hampshire state director of Americans for Prosperity.
Moore served on the organization's New Hampshire board since 2009.
Current AFP state Director Corey Lewandowski will be the organization's regional director.
NEW SURROUNDINGS: Former University System of New Hampshire Chancellor James MacKay left his post Friday and the next day joined the Davis Educational Foundation Board of Trustees. The foundation supports the undergraduate programs of public and private colleges and universities throughout New England.
ROAD SHOW: Hearings on the governor's proposed budget begin this week. Members of the House Finance Committee will visit communities across the state and take testimony and questions on the plan.
"These meetings allow us to directly engage the communities throughout the state and receive valuable feedback as we proceed through the budget process," said Norelli.
A hearing will begin Thursday at 4 p.m. in Representatives Hall. Others will be held
March 11 at White Mountain Regional High School in Whitefield and at the NH Community Technical College in Nashua, both from 5 to 8 p.m.
Hearings are also scheduled March 18 in Claremont at the Sugar River Regional Technical Center in Claremont and at the Rochester Community Center, both from 5 to 8 p.m.
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As the college football calendar goes, we are smack dab in the middle of that late spring "soft spot" in the schedule where spring practice is a solid month in the rear-view mirror, the school year is wrapping up and summer school (for most places) is still a few weeks away. If idle hands are the d ... More >>
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Keith Law: Minnesota Twins
Midseason top five farm systems
We've had a couple of major news events that affected two of the teams near the top of last offseason's rankings, however, and a slew of questions from readers about which system is now at the top of the heap. So here's a revised look at the top five, considering only what's in the systems right now and excluding anyone on major league rosters.
1. Chicago Cubs
I know Cubs fans have heard this before, but just wait 'til next year, because this club is going to get good in a hurry, at least on the run-scoring side of the ledger.
Assignments for Law's top prospects
With the help of Christopher Crawford of MLB Draft Insider, we have compiled the minor league assignments for all prospects in Keith Law's organizational top 10 rankings.
Due to injuries and late assignments, some minor league rosters are not yet official. In those instances, we took our best guess as to where those prospects will be assigned to begin the year.
Note: Players with an asterisk have been traded since the top-10 lists came out, and they are listed with their assignment for their new club.
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Picking division and award winners
AL East
It's hard to pick against a Boston Red Sox team that returns so many of the players who helped them win the World Series last year, losing Stephen Drew but replacing him with one of the majors' best rookies in Xander Bogaerts.
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Byron Buxton is the real deal
• Byron Buxton, the best prospect in baseball coming into this year, didn't disappoint, hitting a hanging slider from Toronto starter Drew Hutchison deep over the left-center field wall, showing off his speed with a couple of sub-4.1-second run times from home to first, and smoking a ground ball in the ninth inning ... that led to a double play with the infield in, but hey, let's not quibble over details.
Buxton saw a ton of pitches across his five at-bats, taking the first pitch every time, putting himself in good position to get a pitch to hit in every at-bat but one. There's little new to say here; he's a true five-tool guy, showing or projecting as plus in all five of those categories, with an improving approach at the plate. He did let the ball travel well on him on Saturday, taking advantage of his quick wrists to start his bat a little later than most hitters would. His only real miscue was failing to call for a fly ball to shallow center on the shortstop side, so that the shortstop ran out to catch it and had to peel off at the last second, after which no one caught it.
• Max Kepler didn't put anything into orbit like Buxton did, but acquitted himself well through three at-bats, including a double to the right-center wall off a Kyle Drabek curveball, a four-pitch walk, and a base hit off Hutchison.
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Complete guide to 2014 prospect rankings
Top 100 prospects
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Doumit to the Braves for Gilmartin (trade details)
Ryan Doumit's best attribute was always his bat, as he's never had a real position and his offense has slipped since he left Pittsburgh -- unsurprising for a player like this entering his early 30s.
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Three-year deal excessive for Phil Hughes
That's not sufficient to justify the three-year, $24 million deal they just gave Phil Hughes, a fifth starter on a middling team who might be best cast in a relief role because hitters make too much good contact against his fastball.
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Nolasco signing necessary for the Twins
Nolasco seemed to have turned a corner right after the Marlins dumped his salary on the Dodgers in July for three fringe relief prospects, posting a 2.07 ERA across 74 innings before three awful starts ended his year and scared the Dodgers out of using him in their Division Series rotation. When he was on, he was working heavily off his fastball, adding and subtracting from it similar to the way his teammate Zack Greinke did, and finishing hitters off with his slider, leaving the curve and changeup as occasional show-me weapons. When he shies away from establishing the fastball, he's far less effective, and often ends up in that situation because his fastball doesn't have great life and is prone to hard contact. It's an interesting signing for Minnesota, a team that has long preached pitching to contact, because Nolasco throws a lot of strikes but doesn't exactly want to encourage hitters to square up his fastball.
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Top MLB teams at each position
It's worth a reminder that strong depth at one position is a good way to fill holes via trades. Anybody saying too much talent at one position doesn't matter because you can't play three shortstops is clueless from a business and personnel standpoint. As a note: outfield and pitching have been consolidated because of how we calculate value at those positions.
The Yankees have more prospect depth at the catcher position than any other team, with Gary Sanchez a potential star if he can improve his receiving enough to remain at the position, while J.R. Murphy is emerging as at least a strong backup. Austin Romine should be getting regular playing time in the majors down the stretch, at least once the Yankees decide their playoff odds are too low to ... well, playing Chris Stewart isn't exactly pushing them toward the playoffs anyway, so why not just play Romine and see what you've got?
That said, the Pirates probably have more present value than the Yankees because of Russell Martin, with Tony Sanchez probably a solid major league backup and 18-year-old Reese McGuire among the game's top dozen or so catching prospects. There is so little catching in full-season minor leagues right now that you would be hard-pressed to identify 10 clear everyday starters without reaching down to short-season leagues.
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Farm systems rising and falling
For the purposes of this exercise, some parameters to keep in mind:
1. I'm only including draft picks who've signed.
2. I'm going to assume players in the majors right now are going to lose their rookie eligibility and won't count for the next org rankings I do in the winter. (This matters because graduating prospects will hurt a system as much as a lack of performance.)
With that noted, let's take a look.
Rising systems
Minnesota Twins | Preseason rank: 2
The Twins have benefited from big jumps by several of their top prospects, balancing out the promotions of their No. 3, 4, and 5 prospects to the majors this year.
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Picking the 'real' All-Star teams
Lineups built to win the game would look like All-Star lineups but would move some players around to different positions to try to build the strongest team possible, while also avoiding those hot-start players who aren't the best choices at their respective positions.
Here are the lineups, including one starter and one reliever per team, that I'd set up to give each league the best chance to win one game.
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"'Degenerate Art.' at the Neue Galerie recalls Nazi Censorship" Holland Cotter of The New York Times reviews the spring exhibition "Degenerate Art." [read the article]
Carol Vogel of The New York Times looks ahead to the spring exhibition "Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937." [read the article]
"The main selling point for this exhibition of Kandinsky's abstractions, just four years after the Guggenheim's blockbuster, is a reconstruction of a lost mural made for the Juryfreie Kunstschau (jury-free art show) in Berlin in 1922." [read the article]
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Carol Vogel of The New York Times looks ahead to Neue Galerie's Fall 2013 exhibition: Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus 1910-1925. [read the article]
NYC-ARTS, Channel 13's weekly broadcast focusing on New York art and culture, features the ongoing Neue Galerie exhibition "Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907." Click here to watch the video of the segment.
"Seeking to forge a distinctly Austrian modernist style, Moser took ideas that were in the air and made them his own, often in ways ahead of his time." [read the article]
"Koloman Moser (1868-1918) is finally getting his moment in the sun. This May, after more than a century of living in the shadow of his good friend, Josef Hoffmann, the Viennese modernist finally will have his first American monographic retrospective at New York City's Neue Galerie." [read the article]
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Would you eat "synthetic meat"?
- ipsedixit Jul 1, 2010 11:15 AM
Y'know, the kind that is born, grown and all together created in a test tube?
I probably would, as long as it was cost-competitive and taste-competitive with "real" meat.
Certainly something to chew on ...
re: Chemicalkinetics
Also, the synthetic meat they discuss is tissue-cultured meat. Ummm... tissue cultured cells require serum from, um, animals. Usually fetal animals. Wouldn't it be simpler to just eat the animals, rather than using serum from animals to grow synthetic animal tissue?
re: Indirect Heat
To be fair, there are a number of serum free alternatives for tissue culture medium these days. But the general principle holds true. The cost and energy inputs required to create the growth media components is far too excessive for the foreseeable future.
re: kmcarr
Indirect Hear and Kmcarr.
It is actually ridiculous huge for energy nad resource input. Margarent Mellon opposite it for that reason:
"So, to recap the opinions on the state of shmeat: It's animal-friendly but bad for the environment; we have the how-to, but not the how-come; unleashing unknown technologies is fodder for nightmares."
All that aside, do we really need to drive down the cost of meat anyway? Are we really not eating meat enough, so we are thinking about alternative way for growing expensive and resource demanding meat.
<cost-competitive and taste-competitive, preventing an enormous amount of suffering> given those parameters, I absolutely would.
re: souschef
Thalidomide is actually approved by the FDA for some very specific and controlled purposes, i.e., leprosy.
I didn't realize that margarine was "synthetic." I don't eat it but I didn't know that.
re: c oliver
Synthetic: man-made; not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially. Margarine qualifies.
From what I've heard the laws regarding the word "imitation" as it refers to foods have been loosened. It used to be that margarine, "Bac-os," and cheese whiz were all imitation, in that they are not butter, bacon or cheddar cheese. These days I can't imagine how many products would be labeled imitation.
re: WhatThePho
Would that make pie, for instance, a synthetic product as it doesn't appear in nature in its completed state? Isn't margarine a combination of "real" food products? Nasty but real? BTW I don't like pie :)
re: c oliver
Maybe...Butter is minimally processed. It is just separated from the non-fat part of milk; margarine is highly processed. If it were liquid oil, it wouldn't taste like butter. It's hydrogenated, colored and flavored to mimic butter. Which, in my mind, is what makes it synthetic.
I don't like pie either.
re: WhatThePho
WTH? Where are all of you pie haters coming from? I just made a Lemon Cream Pie to die for.
re: pikawicca
Lemon cream pie made by you? I could force myself :) But basically pie AND cake are the last desserts I'd ever eat. 'Course I rarely eat dessert except to be polite to a host.
re: c oliver
I'm not a huge dessert eater myself, but once in a while, I splurge. I will NEVER pass up a slice of a Southern Coconut Cake.
re: pikawicca
lol In adulthood I've begun to come around.. I'm not a huge fan of sweets in the first place, and the texture and ... well, i know this is blasphemy, but dry blandness of pie crust, just never appealed to me. I find that if I know who made it, then it magically tastes a whole lot better. :)
re: MandalayVA
sorry ,are you saying that canola is synthetic?
re: howlin
"canola" is an acronym for Canadian Oilseed, Low-Acid...it's a genetically modified hybrid of the rapeseed plant. (rapeseed oil is bitter, highly acidic, and contains potentially dangerous levels of goitrogenic compounds that can suppress thyroid function...not exactly ideal for consumption.)
re: goodhealthgourmet
Sincerely asking: are goitrogenic compounds synthetic?
re: c oliver
no, sorry i got all science-y on you :) the term goitrogenic is related to goiter - it refers to compounds (natural AND synthetic) that suppress thyroid function, potentially causing goiter.
foods in the brassica/cabbage family are actually relatively high in goitrogens, but cooking moderates the impact, and you'd have to consume tons of the vegetables to suppress function in a healthy individual. but for someone like me with compromised thyroid function it's wise to watch your brassica intake. but i digress. what i was saying in my earlier post is that oil derived from the true rapeseed plant (not the hybridized strain for canola oil) has a very high goitrogen content.
re: goodhealthgourmet
o_O I did NOT know that. I thought "canola oil" was just their way of finding a more attractive name for the rapeseed.
re: goodhealthgourmet
While there are GM versions of canola out there, by definition, canola doesn't have to be genetically modified - indeed, the varieties available up until the early-90s were exclusively non-GM. It's just a hybrid of two species of Brassica. Many plants will naturally hybridize with other species.
The hybrid, canola, has lower eruic acid content, making it more palatable than rapesseed.
I admit that I replied the first time before I read The Atlantic piece. Now having read it, I can't understand why anyone would have a problem with it (if the cost and taste were appropriate).
Yes, if it tastes good but I can't imagine it would. My favorite cuts are the tough ones, the parts of the animal that does work, shoulders, thighs etc. How would you replicate this in the test tube meat? I'm guessing it will have the texture of a McNugget which is a bit of a turn off.
re: bookhound
Well, that may be achieved with some alternating electrical voltages to contract the muscles -- maybe.
I am just not convinced by the arguments in that articles though.
I think it would be a lot more productive to go with a much less traumatic (to the animal) method of slaughter than to sit around and talk about "in vitro" meat. But on the pragmatic side, and considering the lobbying funds at the disposal of "agri-business," I don't see much hope for either in the near or distant future.
However, I do find the term "in-vitro meat" to be a sloppy string of words. "In-vitro" immediately brings to mind "in-vitro fertilization" for most folks, in which a sperm and an ova are united in a petrie dish, then the new life is implanted into a waiting womb. That seems not to be what they are talking about here. Instead, the idea seems to be taking a few adult stem cells from a particular type of muscle (eye of round? tenderloin? brisket?) and growing them in an appropriate solution into a full adult size (presumably edible) muscle.
Such things are done in the laboritory now on a fairly routine basis. Adult stem cells can be taken from the skin of a third degree burn victim, flown to the laboratory, and in approximately two weeks, SHEETS of the patient's very own skin will be returned ready for grafting. It is NOT "synthetic" skin, but is grown from the patients own body tissue. Possibly still in the research stages and waiting for FDA approval is the "cloning," by this method, of bladders, and two infants born with no or seriously impaired bladders have recieved such miracles in the last couple of years according to press releases. There is also research going on to grow new cartilage for knees from adult stem cells from the patient which could ultimately replace surgically placed total knee replacement prosthtics in time and be far more lasting and comfortable. (I'm waiting for those puppies with bated breath!) In England, they have implanted adult stem cells (from a donor) in someone who had lost a tooth and the person has grown a new one. But this is leading edge scientific research that, as the article on "artificial meat" says, is prohibitively expensive. The cost of a lab grown steak would make the highest grade of grown-and-graded-in-Japan Kobe beef seem like penny candy!
But the other factor is what would it taste like? And make no mistake, it would be "real" meat and not "artificial." The reason a tenderloin is tender is simply because that is the muscle that recieves the least amount of exercise. Which is not to say that it gets no exercise, and that's a critical point. So my guess is that growing a tenderloin from an adult stem cell in a "amniotic bath" with absolutely zilch exercise would result in a muscle with a texture somewhat like sous vide oatmeal. And since it will lack all of the bone, sinew, connective tissue, blood flow and all of the other things that go into making on-the-hoof meat taste like meat, I'm guessing it won't have anything close to the flavor of a USDA Prime dry aged tenderloin. So if anyone really wants to pay a premium price for a mollecular gastronomy version of balogna, this may be just the meat for you! Me? I think I'll pass.
re: Caroline1
"I think it would be a lot more productive to go with a much less traumatic (to the animal) method of slaughter than to sit around and talk about "in vitro" meat."
Precisely! I don't know why there isn't a bigger movement for this type of thinking... I mean, why is creating lab meat considered a more rational solution than coming up with more humane ways of slaughter? What is going on here?
"The cost of a lab grown steak would make the highest grade of grown-and-graded-in-Japan Kobe beef seem like penny candy!"
The selfish part of me replies, "Ohh, then bring on the lab ribeyes and let me order up some price-slashed Kobe!" :) But the reality is, this would only devastate the farming industry, so never mind. :(
"And since it will lack all of the bone, sinew, connective tissue, blood flow and all of the other things that go into making on-the-hoof meat taste like meat, I'm guessing it won't have anything close to the flavor of a USDA Prime dry aged tenderloin. So if anyone really wants to pay a premium price for a mollecular gastronomy version of balogna, this may be just the meat for you! Me? I think I'll pass."
Amen. Co-signed. This. Ditto. And every other term meaning, 'I fully agree'.
re: Diamond
There are animals that are humanely raised and slaughtered, and it's no secret how this is achieved. But that costs more, and most people aren't concerned enough about those issues to pay.
Whether the "in vitro" meat takes off is a similar sort of question. How will it taste? What will its nutritional profile be? How much will it cost? Until these questions are answered, it's hard to really answer whether there will be customers (and how many) for the product.
No. Dear, sweet Lord in heaven, no.
I just wish we could go back to an earlier time, when food was FOOD, and it came from the Earth and was sold as is without being messed around with. It's bad enough that 99.9999% of frozen dinners and fast food are laden with chemicals, preservatives, and other types of terrifying additives. (I believe Lean Cuisine and In N' Out Burger are the only two respective exceptions to this rule.) I wish the only option out there was organic. The idea of laboratory foodstuffs terrifies me. I want my meat to come from a butcher, not a man in a lab coat.
re: souschef
Just have him hooked up on IV.
re: Chemicalkinetics
Unhappily he saw a lot of that before he passed away.
re: souschef
Sorry, I didn't know your friend has passed away.
synthetic meat would still be the same cells as meat. so if done well, yes. (not well done though)
Anyone read "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood? It came out a couple years ago, sort of sci-fi set in the near future where the food supply was severely compromised. Some company in there was breeding chickens with multiple wings and drumsticks... ew. Though this wasn't a major part of the story, it totally grossed me out and I couldn't eat chicken for a while.
re: truman
That was horrifying.
I hope we never go there.
re: Perilagu Khan
Perilagu Khan,
All I can say is, to quote Charlton Heston, "Soylent green is people!"
Seriously, I agree with you. It wouldn't bother me to eat it, provided that all the artificial means used to create it did not result in something toxic to me in the short or long run. We seem to be having a similar debate currently about eating irradiated foods.
meat cells cloned and cultured are exactly he same as meat grown on the hoof. it isn't a meat substitute being discussed here. it is real meat, and you do not have to kill anything to get it, you so not need to deforest the amazon to raise it, you do not have millions of cows passing greenhouse gasses. seems like a win-win to me
re: thew
Tissue culture (that's really what we're talking about here) is light years apart from meat grown "on the hoof". Tissue cultured meat would be made of a single cell type, myocytes. There would be no collagen to provide lip smacking goodness, no fat to carry flavors. And speaking of flavor where would that come from? Certainly no chowhound is going to wax poetic about this the way they do about grass fed, dry aged beef. This is not real meat.
re: kmcarr
none of it exists as of yet, so what it will be is purely supposition - but there is no reason to not also grow collagen and fat as well.
real is such a loaded word in your last line, only meaning you would not eat it, but without any other significance to it i can see. if it is chemically the same as meat, and structurally the same as meat then it is real meat. as we have already grown organ tissue, and many feel complete organs are less than a decade away. so vat grown sweetbreads, and vat grown kidneys, and vat grown liver is a very real possibility in the not very distant future. would those complete organs be real meat? if not you seem to be begging the question. and if thyroids and kidneys and heats, why not flesh?
and if it tastes good i will indeed wax poetic about it.
re: thew
"none of it exists as of yet, so what it will be is purely supposition - but there is no reason to not also grow collagen and fat as well."
And probably add artificial flavors, texture-enhancing agents, maybe some sweetener to replace the flavors like "grass-fed." Iron? Real cow's blood? (The industry probably has more than it knows what to do with..) This is the direction I envision it going. Just another highly processed food. But who knows.
re: WhatThePho
something wrong with cow's blood? i guess you eat all your meat dried.
i love that sort of argument - you throw in all these things that have zip to do with what we are discussing and then act as if that says anything about what we were discussing.
the question is "would you eat meat that was vat grown and not womb grown?", not "would you eat artificially flavored, texture enhanced, splenda-meat?" we can have that discussion if you like, but it is not what is being discussed here
re: thew
Wow, actually I believe that is part of this discussion. People have asked the question, "Will the taste be comparable?" As far as I know, the added ingredients would be the only way to answer yes to that question.
I suppose my answer to the original question is, "No, because it would be very bland and not comparable to on-the-hoof meat." And if they fixed that problem? Then my answer is, "No, because I avoid processed foods."
And just for the record, cow's blood in it's natural habitat, cow meat, is one thing. After you start fussing with it, preserving it, injecting it, I just see the potential for altering the taste and nutrition.
re: WhatThePho
a lot of funny assumptions there.
re: thew
If it were safe and had the right taste, why not? People eat synthetic foods all the time. Even a lot of the "non-synthetic" supermarket chicken some eat has had a bath in water and chlorine, I'd probably rather have this future "synthetic" stuff. If it were cheaper it could also maybe help out those in need. The trick is making sure it is safe and is identical to the real thing. How they emulate exercise, having been fed a certain diet, etc seems to be a very tough obstacle.
re: DukeOfSuffolk
Not all that tough, if you could grow the tissue into something approximating actual muscle fibers (which you'd pretty much have to do if it really was going to be "just like meat") all you'd have to do is stick electrodes into the appropriate points and run electric pulses in to make the muscles contract and relax. Muscles can continue to work from an current source other than the nervous system, Galvani and his frog legs proved that. As for flavors, that would seem to be a matter of figuring out what the muscles would be receiveing if the meat really was inside of a cow under that stimulus. I can even see the tech being able to eventually put cloned meat "on the bone" either a plastic form or eventually on a synethesized bone shell possibly with cultured tissue inside of it as well (if we can grow organs, and grow meat, it proably wount be too difficult to grow marrow. The same medics who work on the grown organs will probably work on that anyway for people needing marrow transplants.)
Actually I can imagine that cultured meat might actually end up tasting BETTER than the ordinary stuff. At some point (if this tech went commercial) "mother cultures" (the tissue samples from actual organisms that will be used as the starters for all this cultured meat) Something tells me that the companies that take up this industry are going (for the sheer need to compete with each other) to try and make sure that they select samples from the "best" animals they can, which in the context of what they are doing will likely equate to the "tastiest". Once cultured meat really got itself established, something along the lines of USDA prime (that is the highest grade, right?) might very well become the NORM for meat, and since it will be mass produced, there's a pretty good chance it will ultimately end up being cheaper than the real stuff (even the subsidized stuff) too.
Farther down the road, if we ever get to the point where we can look rationally at genetic engineering (as see its good or evil lies in what we do with it, not with something inherent in it) other things may come to pass cultured meat may actually become something better for us than the real stuff, maybe free of "bad" cholesterol (if you believe there is such a thing). I also could actually wind up having fewer antibiotics, provided that growth labs are kept sterile enough.
re: thew
Pray tell, how is my use of the word "real" any more or less loaded than yours? I contest your assertion that synthetic (or cultured if you prefer that term) muscle would be "exactly the same as meat grown on the hoof". Yes we could grow something "meat like", which likely would have a similar nutritional profile to meat, but nobody would mistake it for natural meat. Also, please do not assume what I would or would not eat, I never said I would be opposed to eating cultured meat.
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why wouldnt it be meat?
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re: c oliver
Yeah, I'm curious as well. Why?
re: pikawicca
I think a problem with this thread is that OP referred to "synthetic" rather than processed or manipulated or something.
re: pikawicca
Actually your'e probably right. There are people in written down history who have eaten wooly mammoth (back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before we had the tech for real long term deep cold storage, when mammoths were found in the siberian and artic permafrosts, and teams were sent out to recover the skeletons and (somtimes) hidesm eating the meat was almost normal, you couln't really bring it back and supplies out there were at a premium.
I also recall a little "blurb article" in the last National Geographic about some people trying again to resurrect the Aurochs (wild ancestor of the cow) I have little doubt that, if they are sucessful, and they get up a big enough population they will become prized hunting animals (they were the first time round, often hunting them was a royal perogative, like deer hunting) and they will grace many tables (though as someone pointed out to me, unless they are actually let out into the wild to fend for themselves there may be no point, as farmed aurochs is likey to taste almost exactly like ordinary beef.)
So, at first, I feel "ick". But, then I often feel "ick" about eating meat. Don't eat it much, as a result. I guess I would have to factor in a whole bunch of things: cost, taste, nutrition, how much energy goes into a portion (as compared to eating my legumes, grains, veggies, and fruit), before coming to a rational decision about it. If I felt, rationally, that I could eat it without feeling guilty from whatever angle, I'd still have to see about that ick factor.
Can I try again? Ok thanks.
Wild meat has a distinct taste, based partly on species, but in large part on diet. Corn-fed venison vs grass-finished beef vs factory farm cement-finished beef? I don't know how they would synthesize this without the use of the sort of advanced processing methods that make "food" not real food.
Different cuts of meat have different flavor, due to their function and the surrounding tissue. So will this new industry be willing to grow bone and fat and sinew or will they just flavor the meat? I would guess growing everything in a manner that would replicate the taste would be cost-prohibitive.
Kidney? Heart? Liver? Taste the way they do because of what passes through them.
If all that had to be synthesized to make it taste right were the actual tissue you eat, I would say yes. Absolutely. But because it will take so many more steps than just that, I am guessing the finished product will not appeal to me.
Also, the farther something is from the earth, the more unhappy I feel eating it. There IS a certain amount of emotion tied up in that, but it's how my mind wraps itself around food. It is important to me.
No because too often, after the fact, they realize something that was "just as good" as a long time product isn't as good for you, hence, margarine, baby formula (ooh, I know that's going to start a debate), saccharin. It's the same reason I didn't get the swine flu vaccine. IF it were a necessity and the only food available, that's a different matter. But, in that case, I'd probably eat Soylent Green, too.
re: anonymouse1935
There is nothing disgusting about tofu. I'll bet you've never had freshly made tofu or had it prepared by someone who knows what they are doing.
re: bookhound
Yup, had it, still find it disgusting.
re: anonymouse1935
May I ask where you had freshly made tofu and how was it prepared?
re: bookhound
Can't recall, it was that long ago.
But I do remember it being disgusting.
re: anonymouse1935
<Can't recall, it was that long ago. But I do remember it being disgusting.>
That's pretty much the way I feel about meat. Love tofu, though.
re: small h
I can relate.
Slaughtered beast is only marginally better than disgusting tofu.


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