Ever since Alexandria Ocasio Cortez accidentally let the cow out of the bag when the details of the Green New Deal slipped, the global marxists have doubled down on getting rid of those "farting cows".
They've tried creating synthetic meat in the lab made out of plants.
But people hate it. The food shortages during the pandemic showed us that, with completely empty shelves, except the fake meat section.
So, now scientists are going a different route.
Mutant meat.
Scientists in South Korea successfully grew beef cells inside of rice grains.
"Imagine obtaining all the nutrients we need from cell-cultured protein rice," says first author Sohyeon Park, who conducted the study under the guidance of corresponding author Jinkee Hong at Yonsei University, South Korea. "Rice already has a high nutrient level, but adding cells from livestock can further boost it."
Apparently, rice offers a 3-D matrix similar enough to animal molecular scaffolding that when treated with fish gelatin, beef cells were able to grow into and fill the rice over the course of 9 to 11 days.
And when they steamed it, it smelled like beef too.
The hybrid rice with higher muscle content had beef- and almond-related odor compounds, while those with higher fat content had compounds corresponding to cream, butter, and coconut oil.
And the hybrid rice costs less to produce per pound than beef, plus all that carbon-reduction mumbo jumbo.
The team's product has a significantly smaller carbon footprint at a fraction of the price. For every 100 g of protein produced, hybrid rice is estimated to release less than 6.27 kg of CO2, while beef releases 49.89 kg. If commercialized, the hybrid rice could cost around $2.23 per kilogram, while beef costs $14.88.
And the scientists think it will be fairly easy to scale up production as the beef cells grew easily and quickly in the rice grains.
"I didn't expect the cells to grow so well in the rice," says Park. "Now I see a world of possibilities for this grain-based hybrid food. It could one day serve as food relief for famine, military ration, or even space food."
And while this is all very interesting, there's one test I don't see that scientists did.
No one tasted it.
The question is which one of you will be the guinea pig and eat the beefy-rice? Because I'm not going to try it.
[Editor's note: You don't hate scientists enough. You think you do, but you don't]
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