growing meat through cell culture...

[gib]

...instead of raising and slaughtering animals:

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ml?ref=science)

apologies if this has been raised before, i thought it looked like quite a contraversial story. What do people think?

[beanstew]

More on this here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/us...hp&oref=slogin

and /. "discussion" (lots of ignorant comments, a few insightful ones which is pretty typical for slashdot):

http://science.slashdot.org/article....8/04/21/126253

I haven't made up my mind on this yet.

[Risker]

Here's a thread on it - http://www.veganforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9532