Mmm... Home-Grown Meat

Is this creepy? "Scientists forecast meat grown on kitchen counter"

Instead of being cut from a farm animal, the beef, pork or chicken would be grown in incubators from a few starter cells, a growth medium and some hormones to get the cells to divide.
-Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:06:12 EST - CBC News

We've all heard of genetic engineering, GMO's, etc. I find this completely creepy, but if NASA and the researchers at University of Maryland would like to invite WeirdMeat to come taste this stuff, we're willing to give it a shot.

If you were a vegetarian, would you eat this stuff?

Tom Cruise Eats Placenta

Tom Cruise is having an active publicity year -- couch jumping on Oprah, dishing out mental health advice, publicly gushing about his new love, and all that Church of Scientology stuff. But this new item today is worthy of weird meat gossip. According to this Chinese news website, Xinhua, Tom Cruise is eating placenta from his new child / mother?



WeirdMeat.com has nothing against eating placenta. We've never tried it. We know it's been considered a healthy consumable for centuries, in cultures all over the world. But it's not really a valid part of a "cuisine" so it hasn't interested us. Nor do we know how to find some, nor any good recipes. I suppose it's not technically cannibalism -- it's harmless, right -- but it's not on WeirdMeat.com's list. Has anyone out there tried it that can comment?

Wild Boar, Wild Hare

I wasn't running out of weird meat options in my current home, Shanghai, but thank god they added more wild stuff for me to check out. Wild boar, wild hare, and wild spotted deer have been added to menus across town, and I'm going to seek these out very soon and report back to you. I'm happy to see that there's a "wild meat tax" added to these luxury food items that will be used to support endangered wild species. I'll quote the short article here, before it gets lost in the inevitable bad-link void zone...

Wild hare and boar now on the menu

Joyce Chen

2006-04-17

SHANGHAI gourmands with a taste for something wild will be happy to hear their options expanded threefold yesterday.

Wild boar and wild hare were added to the menus at five city restaurants and put on the butcher block at a major market. Sale of the wild meat was allowed by the State Forestry Administration after determining it would not endanger the sustainable populations of these animals.

The two new offerings were the second series of wild animals to be authorized for sale in city stores and restaurants following spotted dear, which was authorized prior to the Spring Festival in late January.

The five hotels and restaurants include the Shanghai Grand Hyatt in Pudong and the Shanghai No. 1 Food Store, where the wild meats will average 50 yuan (US$6.17) a kilogram, double the price of many farm-raised animals. There was no word on how much restaurant dishes would cost.

The wild animal distinction, however, may not be huge, as the products include those simply raised outdoors in free-range settings, according to media reports.

Even so, quotas will be imposed to make sure sales don't endanger the species. The quotas for wild rabbit and boar weren't announced, but the daily limit for spotted deer was set at 200 kilograms across the entire city.

The price of the meats also includes an 8 percent wild animal resource fee that will be used by the to protect endangered species.

As such, the consumption of the wild animals shouldn't be viewed negatively, said officials at Shanghai Deyuzhai Company, which received permission to handle the sales.

- Shanghai Daily
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