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Offline davidpt40

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« on: May 20, 2003, 01:16:31 PM »
Tree That Give Meat Instead Of Fruit!
http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/wwn/20030516/105309720008.html
Friday May 16, 2003




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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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2003, 01:25:38 PM »
I love this!:D



"Mixing animal and vegetable DNA to create a new species is playing God,"

this is ridiculous tho.. we play god all the time.

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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2003, 01:26:06 PM »
I may finally get interested in gardening if something like this ever occurs.

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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2003, 01:28:36 PM »
Good grief, you don't expect anyone to

a)laugh
b)or believe it

do you?

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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2003, 01:30:42 PM »
I've been told I have a "Meat Tree" :D

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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2003, 01:31:17 PM »
This reminds me of the story of getting "oil" from turkey remnants.

Sounds too good to be true...ergo, it probably is...even if both were reported on Yahoo ;)
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2003, 01:31:39 PM »
wait.. you're saying that something on the Internet is made up?:eek:

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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2003, 01:33:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I've been told I have a "Meat Tree" :D



Oh yeah, oh yeah....I've been told I have a...uuhhmm, uuhhmm...I've got a meat forest.  Yeah, that's it...I've been told I have a meat forest.

Yeah, there...take that :D
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« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2003, 01:34:41 PM »
A tree can't be far off.


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« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2003, 01:40:59 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by hawk220
wait.. you're saying that something on the Internet is made up?:eek:



I've been thinking about making up a story (kinda like that NY Times reporter) and posting here.

You know make up a title like a fancy newpaper (or hell, just use an existing paper) and then post a bunch of highly-inflamatory, untrue, fact-devoid crap.

Not like that "weight lighter who blew out his arse" article (which sounded like a twelve year old wrote it) but one with logical points and syntax.  It would be written with style and flair with proper use of grammer which not only sublimated and transcended the subject of the article beyond simple comprhension to the reader but would also personalize the subject and create a deep desire within the reader to spit nails :D

And then, I would sit back and watch everyone get their panties in a bunch about it.

Oh yeah, I'd drink beer and laugh also.
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« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2003, 01:46:44 PM »
live in hope ra,
reckon you could pull a vegetable? :D

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« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2003, 02:34:26 PM »
Claim:   Researchers have developed genetically engineered fruit trees that bear meat.

Status:   False.

Example:   [Weekly World News, 2003]


Tree That Give Meat Instead Of Fruit!

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."

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Origins:   All one need know about this article is that it originated with the Weekly World News, an entertainment tabloid devoted to inventing fantastically fictitious stories while keeping its tongue firmly embedded in its cheek to a depth not measurable by any instrument known to man. Unfortunately, Yahoo!, a primary news source for many people on the Internet, reprints some Weekly World News articles in their TV News section under a heading of "Entertainment News & Gossip," a title that doesn't convey a strong "bogus" warning to readers who don't notice the original source is the Weekly World News (or don't know that the Weekly World News is a campishly silly supermarket tabloid).

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« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2003, 02:42:21 PM »
Oh well, back to pulling vegetables.

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« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2003, 03:03:18 PM »
Oh well, I guess were back to using illegal immigrants to chop up partially live animals.  Besides, most people are vegetarian for health reason I do believe.

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« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2003, 03:05:09 PM »
I got a meat tree, but only my girl friend know its true flavor!


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