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Dammit – The Printer is Out of Bacon
3D-printers have been used for everything from video game models to exoskeletons for disabled toddlers, but PayPal founder Peter Thiel has even higher hopes for the technology: printed meat. Thiel just donated between $197,000 and $271,000 to Modern Meadow, a company that claims to be able to layer 3D-printed cells into very specific structures that are sort of like meat. The goal is to make a product that mimics the flavor and texture of meat, but replaces the moral problem of eating a living creature with the moral problem of eating a science experiment that laughs in the face of nature. Modern Meadow has a way to go before they can give you a thick, juicy fake steak, though – the company is still just trying to make an edible piece of faux-meat less than half a millimeter thick.
IronyCurtain
August 18th, 2012
What moral problem of eating meat?
Step one: Put ketchup on burger.
Step two: Eat.
Delicious. No problem.
Sarthurk
August 18th, 2012
Irony? YES!
Maudie N Mandeville
August 18th, 2012
Genesis 9:3- And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth. [2] And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand. [3] And every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you
Let Peter eat paper.
Trogloraptor
August 18th, 2012
They can eat shit for all I care. Just don’t do it around me or my kids. Damned hippies!
scr_north
August 18th, 2012
3D printing is doing more than models and exoskeletons. A fellw has used it to create an automatic rifle that fires.
http://technabob.com/blog/2012/07/29/3d-printed-assault-rifle/
Pretty neat actually, I’ll bet the feds are busy working up some laws even as we speak.
cfm990
August 18th, 2012
Can’t wait to see what the cost of “ink” will be.
Tracy
August 18th, 2012
Dog meat, tough.
NObama2012!
Jethro
August 18th, 2012
Let’s say they get this to market in about 10 years. I bet in another 10 years somebody discovers they were using byproducts of meat processing to manufacture the material that goes into the machine.
Then they get bought out by the Soylent Corporation
http://images.forbes.com/media/2007/12/11/comp_6.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGC3zNalXkQ&feature=related
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Unneutral
August 18th, 2012
Sure, like there isn’t already enough fake crap today; like the president.
jwm
August 18th, 2012
@Jethro:
They’re printing our food out of people!
Welcome to the future they kept warning you about.
JWM
Xavier
August 18th, 2012
It’s The Diamond Age IRL.
RANDO
August 18th, 2012
I ran across this the other day:
http://shop.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/tactical-bacon.aspx?a=1009689
Thought I should pass it along.
You’re welcome.
Unslung Hero
August 18th, 2012
It is becoming more and more apparent that getting rich does NOT guarantee brains….
Gina
August 18th, 2012
These 3D printers are amazing. I hope they help to bring manufacturing back to this country.
Corona
August 18th, 2012
And they were worried about genetically engineered food. Wait till they eat a 3D printed apple.
Friend of the family
August 18th, 2012
You ever take away my REAL 80% ground chuck, and I’m going to throw bricks through your store window. For real.
even steven
August 19th, 2012
Gross. I won’t be ingesting that experiment.
tripseven
August 19th, 2012
No thanks…I’ll stick to pink slime, thank you.
FreeMan - Sorry Sarah
August 19th, 2012
So is 20lb bond considered light meat over the 32lb bond?
Will it print legal sized meat or an 11X17 ribeye?
mickey_moussaoui
August 19th, 2012
Too late, McD’s beat them to it