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First it was modified grain, and now, it is meat from the lab!
It is now established that a team of researchers in Holland has managed to grow a piece of pork in the laboratory. But hold on, the meat that was grown from myoblast cells from pig muscles don’t look anything like pork, but more like soggy curds! The meat was grown in a medium of blood nutrients and incubated for a period of time. However, no one has tasted the soggy meat and there is no clear signal that the future of pork meat lays in the laboratories. It would of course take some time before real pork can be displaced. But it would be a great plus for the environment if the project succeeds, not to mention about the great worry about mutated virus living in the bodies of living animals that can cross over to humans!
December 2, 2009.
Don’t throw that orange peel away!
We are so used to throwing away that orange peel down the chute that if someone were to reprimand us for doing that will cause much surprise. Yes, according to a team of researchers in Sweden, throwing away the peel would be like throwing away gold. According to Mohammad Taherzadeh and Daniel Yar Hamidi, who are leading a team of researchers in the University of Boras, they have succeeded in producing ethanol and biogas from fruit waste and in particular, citrus waste. Besides, they have also recycled orange peel to produce limon, an antibacterial agent, and pectin, a gelling agent used in food preparations. In the world of organic recycling, orange peel is a no no because it contains an antibacterial substance which slows organic decomposition. Now, perhaps, orange peel and grapefruit waste will be recycled into useful products with further developments and research. In the meantime, a patent has been filed for the new processing method.
December 9, 2009.