Summary In the CNN clip “Is a test tube burger safe?” from the 5th of August 2013; the interviewer is interviewing investigator and reporter for the New York Times Michael Moss about what a new test tube burger will mean for the food industry. The team behind this artificially created meat, claims that it might be an environmentally friendly way to fight world hunger. Mr Moss predicts that this is one of the first signs of what the food industry calls “foot security”. As the world population increases, the demand on food and meat is following, which lets to a demand on “foot security”. The interviewer is concerned weather the general public will be willing to eat meat from a test tube. Mr Moss says that it might be boiled down to two important …show more content…
The team behind the lab patty say that this could potentially be an environmentally friendly way to fight world hunger.” You cannot argue the fact that there is world hunger nor that this is a growing global problem, due to the increasing population on planet Earth. This scientifically engineered meat might be the cornerstone in solving this problem. Normally I would refuse to accept that the end should justify the means. In this case because, I was raised in a home where healthy organic, preferable local, produced raw materials were what was bought and ate. This is also reflected in my opinion on weather to consume this test tube meat. Honestly, I enjoy eating a good steak – and I do like to think of it as having roots in nature, especially rather than a test-tube. They would have to take great effort in convincing me to eat test tube …show more content…
That is only meat, one small part of our needed nutrient. Our dietary recommendations say that only a small amount (around 20 %) of our total energy consumption should be from protein (which we primarily get from meat). Could an alternative way of resolving this meat problem be to convince people that they should eat less meat? Probably not, because according to Food and Agricultural Organisation we will be eating twice as much meat as we do now by 2050. If we already use 70 per cent of all our agricultural capacity to grow meat though livestock, and we are to double that by 2050, we will in fact run out of agricultural capacity. The cost of meat is already increasing; imagine what such a huge demand and such small supply would do to the price. It would be an extreme luxury to eat