Here's my question regarding the present day ethics of stem cells. It wouldn't post as a comment on Mr. Quick's blog, so I decided to post it here along with a fantastic video on in-vitro meat. I'm currently pro-in-vitro meat, in case you were wondering. I'd rather know that my slab of steak was made in a lab than in a slaughter house. I hope we have in-vitro wagyu beef and bacon one day. Bacon.

The first in-vitro or lab-grown meat, created by a Dutch team, was eaten at a demonstration for the press in London in August 2013. It is still commercially unavailable, not to mention ridiculously expensive, but will most likely be readily available in the future. Will in-vitro meat replace the need for livestock? If yes, will this negatively or positively affect the economy? If livestock is no longer required to provide meat, how will this affect the food chain? And if humans can finally culture beef in a test tube, who's to say that humans won't start eating lab-grown human flesh? In a medical perspective, will we finally be able to create a perfectly healthy replica of our own organs without having to face the ethical issues of cloning as shown in "The Island"?

Rachel Putri Utomo
Block F, Honors Biology
Mr. Kevin Quick
Academic Year 2013-2014