First test-tube hamburger ready this fall: researchers

[jsmirman]

22. Oh, and just so you know - nutrition/taste/etc.

(I just wrote an article about this for my school's weekly)

there are plenty of ways to get the nutrition you are looking for - in mma, the Diaz brothers, Mac Danzig, Jake Shields, Jon Fitch, a few others are vegan/vegetarian. Diaz gets in trouble for loving weed, but he's one of the top fighters and no one has better cardio, and he's almost entirely vegan (and he's vegetarian, as to the rest).

Tony Gonzalez, future NFL hall of famer, is a vegetarian. There are vegan bodybuilders and triathletes.

As for the taste, there are two products that, as someone who loved meat, I recommend trying. Gardein Beefless Tips and Field Roast (line of) (vegan) Sausages are incredible. Even my cat cadged some of the last Field Roast Sausages I cooked up - and he demolished the bits I gave him. Quite simply, they taste like the products they mimic. There are revolting efforts at mimicry. It's a totally different world of that stuff than it was five, ten years ago, and there are many more products that would shock you with how close they are. I've had lousy vegan pizza, but zpizza makes a mean vegan pizza with vegan sausage crumbles. I actually like seitan.

If you're in DC, go to Java Green in Foggy Bottom and try the Chicken Java - it will blow your mind.

I still remember what meat tastes like, and you don't have to wait for this test tube stuff to make some alterations. Hope that is useful information.