This one’s old, but interesting. At first glance this story from Yahoo! news seems to be a legitimate but bizarre news story.
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.
But actually, it’s from Weeky World News. Thanks for the tip, Grant!
6 responses so far ↓
1 sauceruney // Jun 3, 2004 at 6:06 pm
I’ve envisioned beef grown in sterile vats from cell cultures but not from a plant.
Next thing you know we really will be able to get blood from a stone.
2 Klintron // Jun 4, 2004 at 11:42 pm
Well, we’ve got a long way to go. We still can’t even breed mutant chickens (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.htm)
3 Brenden Simpson // Jun 5, 2004 at 8:04 am
Snopes was paid off by the Liberal Mutant Conspiracy. You’re not seeing the BIG PICTURE! (e.g. Conspiracy!)
4 wu // Jun 6, 2004 at 1:33 am
& here I’ve been laboring under the assumption that Snopes was a tool of the Birchers…
but the real question here is would vat-grown beef be vegan?
5 anynomous cow // Jun 7, 2004 at 6:52 am
nah. it would propably stick to your gutworks like the real thing.
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