Meat In Vitro History

Do you really know what is in your meat? What about what happens to the meat after it is slaughtered? Fortunately, the conditions have gotten much better throughout the years. But many years ago, in the early 1900s meat consumers bought spoiled and rat infested hams that were produced by the meat industries. Nowadays, the meat industry has improved to a certain extent. Today, about 80% of all U.S. feedlots are injected with hormones (Lerner). Americans should know what they are eating. This is important in the meat industry because they are the producers of all the meat that we eat. The meat industry has improved and is much better than the 1900s, but still not at as ideal as everyone thinks it really is.

Would you do anything to keep your family together? The novel Bastard out of Carolina, written by Dorothy Allison, reveals the early life of the main character, Bone. Born an illegitimate child, Bone grew up being physically and sexually abused by her step-father. The novel My Year of Meats, written by Ruth L. Ozeki, showcases the behind-the-scenes story of a reality television show, My American Wife. The show was produced by BEEF-EX, a meat company. The show was created to “create a new truism: The wife who serves meat has a kinder, gentler mate” (Allison 13). Although the novels may seem to be completely different, they both have a strong theme of family. Characters in both novels are not only forced to make decisions that affect themselves and their families, but they also make decisions based on their families’ opinions. The main characters in both novels have hidden the truth to protect their families, but they both received different outcomes.

The last forty-five years has seen a significant increase in world animal protein production. Since 1967 global production of poultry meat has increased by around 700%, eggs by 350%, pig meat by 290%, sheep and goat meat by 200%, beef and buffalo meat by 180% and milk by 180%. Livestock are increasingly important to the food security of millions of people. (Leyonhjelm 3)

The meat industry today is not what it was nearly a century ago. While improvements are thought to have been made, an ever changing society has brought upon new problems that have been piled on to the previously existing ones. While these problems are not like those found in The Jungle, they do parallel how by exposing what is going on in the meat industry; new regulations would be the answer to the noted problems. The increased demand for meat has made it a rushed mutated production instead of a means to raise livestock for consumers. Taking into consideration the demand for cheap meat that will be used for in quick and high demanded products such as frozen and fast food, this demand of meat has greatly skyrocketed. Animals whose sole

Farmers are using different technology for breeding. They used selective breeding to produce animals that exhibit desirable traits and they get more benefit from it. For example, using breeding techniques farmers makes cows which produce more milk with less lactose, and sheep which produce more wool. Farmers accept this new selective breeding technology because in the past, farmers would use growth hormones to promote such qualities. This became problematic when residue of the hormones remained in the meat, leaving it with a foul taste. When researchers began to clone transgenic animals, it became possible to develop certain traits in animals, which increased the quality of their yield. When a farmer would like to raise the standards of a herd, the breeding process is very slow and sometimes incomes can decrease (Wilmut 23). Many times when relying on sexual breeding alone to mass-produce these animals, there are chances of breeding out the desired traits (Freudenrich). Transgenic animal cloning will result in higher quality meats and dairies without the use of artificial hormones. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released in January 2008 concluded “edible products from normal, healthy clones or their progeny do not appear to pose increased food consumption risks relative to comparable products from conventional animals.” After 2008, US Food and Drug Administrative agree to use

Walking through your local grocery store, such as Kroger’s, you will see the isle filled of poultry, with variation from chicken, beef, veal, and steak. People often question the high cost of the meats and their quality, but do they ever question where their meat is coming from or how it was processed? I would assume the answer is no. In the New York Times article “U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit” we are introduced to the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) and exposed to their inhumane experiments being used on our livestock’s, which in turn is the meat we buy in our stores. Although some experts such as Robert R. Oltjen, the center’s director, argue that humans are superior to

While reviewing this website, I’ve come to understand that cloning meat is and has been treacherous to us for providing harm to our farm animals by giving them high doses of different chemicals, making them live with birth defects and making statements to deceive the public by saying it’s a harmless process that enhances and multiply the breed of animals when it really does not. The scariest part to this issue is our animals suffer and so do we if we’re meat consumers. (Dan Kedmey) Then studies have proven that bacteriological meat contamination in the US, for the first time was enacted in 1906 when the Pure Food and Drug Act was signed by laws in regards of banning infected and mislabeled products from the interstate commerce. Observations about those risks were associated with bacteriological meat contamination, and about how it should be regulated, has changed significantly since then. This article focuses particularly on changes that have occurred in bacteriological meat contamination standards in the US since the early 1980s when E. coli was for the first time identified as a new foodborne pathogen associated with the consumption of undercooked meat. The idea of cloning farm animals is to produce replicas of the animals with the highest economic value, for example the fastest-growing pigs or the highest-yielding dairy cows to make a profit off of. However the process of cloning itself causes our animals suffering. Animals with the highest economic value are prone to developing severe health problems, pushed to their physical limits; they are destined to a lifetime of suffering. The Cloning equals Cruelty campaign highlighted intrinsic animal welfare issues for selective breeding in animals for food, meat and dairy. Research also shows that many cloned farm animals are born with deformed organs and live short and miserable

Studies have been done, but nothing is set in stone. I can't say it is the truth

The use of animals in lab work is a controversial practice that is met with strong opposition from various animal welfare groups and just people in general. The argument of whether it is ethical or morally right to continue this practice has been going on for a long time and it seems we are now at a place where alternatives to animal testing are available. Scientists have been able to reconstruct testing methods that don’t revolve around the use of animals. Such alternatives that are currently being looked into, or have already begun being implemented, include in vitro cell cultures, organoids, organs-on-chips, human-on-a-chip, noninvasive imaging, and microdosing. These methods would all allow for the reduction of animal use in laboratories or the flat out replacement of them. In vitro cell culture is the utilization of animal or plant cells for the purpose of culturing them in an artificial environment. This artificial environment would provide many of the necessary components for normal cell function such as nutrients and growth factors. Another benefit to this innovation is the ease of manipulation, molecularly, and the cost and time benefit it would have over animal models of similar nature. This new innovation would allow for studies in pharmaceutical screenings and development as well as the production of various biological compounds such as therapeutic proteins. This method is

The time has come for a new era of meat products. Lab-grown meat is now getting ready to hit the shelves! So far, the idea of all the bloodshed while farming animals for meat has been of distaste even for meat lovers. Memphis Meats has come up with an innovative idea of using animal cells grown in the lab to be used as meat. This idea is environment-friendly and humane as well. Uma Valeti, the CEO of Memphis Meats truly believes lab-grown meat to be the future.

Nutrients and diet play a big role in people’s health and condition. Poor diet and frequent exposure to certain nutrients leads one’s health vulnerable to various diseases or abnormalities. Cancer is the continuous abnormal cell division, which causes countless people’s lives every year. There isn’t only one factor triggering the development of cancer, but several factors together play a big role in the development of this deadly illness. According to several studies done, red meat and processed meat is one of the contributors to this illness, but how does the most consumed type of meat in the United States cause cancer? Research has shown different types of cancer developments linked to the consumption of red meat and processed red meat, the kinds of red meat involved in this association, and the carcinogens present in red meat which, makes it toxic.

In my opinion, the idea of meat and leather bio fabrication is great. I believe that it is the future because the rates of animals being killed are very high and still growing. The issues it brings are already apparent and it will only become worse if nothing will be changed. I think that bio fabricated meat and leather would be a good start to at least reduce the amounts of animals killed. However, I think that the greatest challenge that bio fabrication will face will be to convince people that bio fabricated meat is equivalent to real meat. Andras Forgacs mentioned this in his presentation by stating that people think that bio fabricated products are artificial as they are grown in laboratories. I think that it is hard to find any kind

Biofabrication is the production of complex biological products from living cells, molecules, and other raw materials. The purpose of biofabrication is to produce goods like leather and meat without the expense of killing off the cattle population. The TED Talk “Leather and Meat Without Killing Animals” led by Andras Forgacs and the article “Slaughter-Free Leather will Make our World ‘More Cultured’ ” by Michael Rundle both delve into the benefits of biofabrication. The purpose of the TED Talk and the article is to persuade the audience that biofabrication is something that can be widely used to make goods from animals without killing them. Although the Ted Talk and the article are presenting the same topic, their information varies to some degree, and Andras Forgacs does a better job at presenting the information in a persuasive manner.

Result: a more consolidated meat industry comprising of companies with sophisticated manufacturing and marketing skills, stronger financial positions, and a focus on building value added brands and market share. The race was thus on for new ideas and promotional support to achieve industry leadership. If Om was to remain on top as one of the leading brands, then investments would be needed on promotion and advertisement as well as in research and development. There was a dire need to align the products with consumer trends and satisfy the target audience’s want for products that were faster and easier to use.

Keggfarms was established by Vinod Kapur in the year 1967. It is one of India’s oldest poultry-centric organisations, set up with the intent to make essential contributions to the development of poultry in India. This was made possible by pioneering India’s first Genetic Breeding Program using the germ plasm (pure breeding stock). Keggfarms was among the first companies, in the developing world to come up with this with demonstrable results. As a result of Keggfarms’ intervention, India could stand as the only country outside the developed world, which is self-sufficient and self-reliant in high-yielding poultry and is able to compete favourably with the very best in the world. Therefore, this industry has developed on the basis of a concept that was pioneered and validated by Keggfarms.