First Test Tube Meat to be Produced This Fall

From HealthDay News. Part of a news roundup. This CANNOT be good when there are perfectly good cows around to do the job for us! I just wonder if the test-tube meat will ALSO be fed the same toxic subpar brew the real cows were getting fed...

"A Dutch scientist says the world's first "test tube" meat will be produced this fall.

The meat will be a hamburger made from cow's stem cells, Mark Post said Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Agence France-Presse reported.

The ingredients for the hamburger are "still in the laboratory phase," but by fall "we have committed ourselves to make a couple of thousand of small tissues, and then assemble them into a hamburger," said Post, chair of physiology at Maastricht University.

His goal is to develop a method of producing skeletal muscle tissue in the laboratory that exactly mimics meat, and use this technology to eventually replace the meat-animal industry, AFP reported."

Will it replace the COMMERCIAL meat industry, the organic meat industry, or both? I'm all for replacing the commercial meat industry, but not with this!

Question: does this mean scientists will now be on the farm subsidy bandwagon?