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Scientist engineer tree that produces meat!
Tree That Give Meat Instead Of Fruit!
Friday May 16, 2005 By MICHAEL CHIRON MANCHESTER, England -- Here's some good news that vegetarians can really sink their teeth into: Researchers have developed genetically engineered fruit trees that bear real meat! Fruit from the new Meat Trees, developed by British scientists using gene-splicing technology, closely resembles ordinary grapefruit. But when you peel the large fruit open, inside is fresh beef. "Our trees may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but it's really a simple, down-to-earth idea whose time has come," declares Dr. Vincent Tartley, director of agricultural bioengineering research for the UltraModAgri Group, which created the amazing trees. "Vegetarians have been complaining for years that despite their moral convictions against consuming meat, they still crave the flavor of a good steak once in a while. Now they can have their cake and eat it too." Although it's taken 12 years to develop the trees, the concept is simple. "We take the genes from cattle that produce key proteins and splice them into the reproductive cells of grapefruit trees," he says. "When the seeds mature into trees, instead of producing ordinary citrus fruit, the pulp contains meat. You get the flavor, texture -- even the smell." Those who've sampled the meat agree it tastes like the real thing. "I was a bit skeptical at first when I sank my teeth into a hamburger after they told me it grew on a tree," says Londoner Mark Basker, 41, who participated in a consumer taste-test. "But it was juicy and delicious -- nothing leafy about it at all." Meat grown on trees needs only sun, water and fertilizer and thus is more cost-effective than raising livestock, Dr. Tartley also points out. Meat Tree products could be on the market in Great Britain by year's end and, pending USDA approval, on dinner plates in the U.S. by 2005. Some fanatical vegetarians insist they could never eat meat -- even if it grew on a tree and no animals had to be killed. Others love the idea. "My mouth is watering already," says a committed vegetarian of 20 years. But religious leaders are uneasy about "trans-species genetic engineering." "Mixing animal and vegetable DNA to create a new species is playing God," argues Rev. Lawrence Bedlow, Britain's leading expert in medical ethics. |
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Anyone know where I can get my hands on some of these meat trees???
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:43:01 +0000, DBB wrote:
Anyone know where I can get my hands on some of these meat trees??? You can't get one of these trees, they don't exist. This story came out of the Weekly World News and I highly doubt that they have any true stories in their "paper". http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/meattree.htm -- Yard Works Gardening Co. http://ywgc.com/resources.html |
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You can get meat plants growing on the meat farm, through meat nurseries or
even grow them from meat seeds. For more info do a Google search using the key word "absolute baloney"!!! "DBB" wrote in message newsVfqe.42241$xm3.34743@attbi_s21... Anyone know where I can get my hands on some of these meat trees??? |
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You may already be a weiner!!!
Dr. Vincent Tartly retired and has been replaced by Dr. Vincent Pricely!!! "DBB" wrote in message news:uTfqe.43130$nG6.4146@attbi_s22... Tree That Give Meat Instead Of Fruit! Friday May 16, 2005 By MICHAEL CHIRON MANCHESTER, England -- Here's some good news that vegetarians can really sink their teeth into: Researchers have developed genetically engineered fruit trees that bear real meat! Fruit from the new Meat Trees, developed by British scientists using gene-splicing technology, closely resembles ordinary grapefruit. But when you peel the large fruit open, inside is fresh beef. "Our trees may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but it's really a simple, down-to-earth idea whose time has come," declares Dr. Vincent Tartley, director of agricultural bioengineering research for the UltraModAgri Group, which created the amazing trees. "Vegetarians have been complaining for years that despite their moral convictions against consuming meat, they still crave the flavor of a good steak once in a while. Now they can have their cake and eat it too." Although it's taken 12 years to develop the trees, the concept is simple. "We take the genes from cattle that produce key proteins and splice them into the reproductive cells of grapefruit trees," he says. "When the seeds mature into trees, instead of producing ordinary citrus fruit, the pulp contains meat. You get the flavor, texture -- even the smell." Those who've sampled the meat agree it tastes like the real thing. "I was a bit skeptical at first when I sank my teeth into a hamburger after they told me it grew on a tree," says Londoner Mark Basker, 41, who participated in a consumer taste-test. "But it was juicy and delicious -- nothing leafy about it at all." Meat grown on trees needs only sun, water and fertilizer and thus is more cost-effective than raising livestock, Dr. Tartley also points out. Meat Tree products could be on the market in Great Britain by year's end and, pending USDA approval, on dinner plates in the U.S. by 2005. Some fanatical vegetarians insist they could never eat meat -- even if it grew on a tree and no animals had to be killed. Others love the idea. "My mouth is watering already," says a committed vegetarian of 20 years. But religious leaders are uneasy about "trans-species genetic engineering." "Mixing animal and vegetable DNA to create a new species is playing God," argues Rev. Lawrence Bedlow, Britain's leading expert in medical ethics. |
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How about beer nuts and money trees?
http://www.beertravelers.com/lists/beernuts.html "Mark Anderson" wrote in message .net... In article says... Anyone know where I can get my hands on some of these meat trees??? The same place you get beer trees and money trees. |
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:43:01 GMT, "DBB" wrote:
Anyone know where I can get my hands on some of these meat trees??? theres one born every minute |
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