Worried about the rapid warming of the Earth??

I posted a while ago about how the agriculture industry appears to be responsible for over 15% of human-induced green house gas and specificallly how high the animal agriculture green house gases are. That if you are concerned about making a difference, rather than playing the blame game, you could make some changes in your own life to reduce these gases. Namely go vegan or even vegetarian is helpful. That is too much to ask? Just cut down on your meat consumption. Eat two more meals a week that contain no meat. It is not hard to do. PB&J, Spaghetti without the meat, humus, bean soup, rice, veggies, veggie sushi, there are even some really great imitation meat products out there. But this is trial and error as there are some not so good imitation meat products out there as well. After all if everyone did this there would be a huge difference made.

I came across this interesting article recently that I wanted to share... Along these same lines. Just interesting to know what science is doing. Just give this article a chance. Because it is fascinating to know these things.

In-vitro meat: Would lab-burgers be better for us and the planet?

By Matt Ford

(CNN) -- Meat is murder? Well, perhaps not for much longer.


Artist Banksy has satirized modern farming and meat production; could in-vitro meat be a better option?

A pioneering group of scientists are working to grow real animal protein in the laboratory, which they not only claim is better for animal welfare, but actually healthier, both for people and the planet. It may sound like science fiction, but this technology to create in-vitro meat could be changing global diets within ten years.

"Cultured meat would have a lot of advantages," said Jason Matheny of research group New Harvest. "We could precisely control the amount of fat in meat. We could make ground beef with an ideal fatty acid ratio -- a hamburger that prevents heart attacks instead of causing them."

But it isn't just the possibility of creating designer ground beef with the fat profile of salmon that drives Matheny's work. Meat and livestock farming is also the source of many human diseases, which he claims would be far less common when the product is raised in laboratory conditions.

"We could reduce the risks of diseases like swine flu, avian flu, 'mad cow disease', or contamination from Salmonella," he told CNN. "We could produce meat in sterile conditions that are impossible in conventional animal farms and slaughterhouses. And when we grow only the meat we can eat, it's more efficient. There's no need to grow the whole animal and lose 75 to 95 percent of what we feed it."

Read the whole artical here...
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/07/eco.invitro.meat/