Made of Meat

Jamie Zawinski () blogs a Wired article about a project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (don’t those names sound totally Israeli?) at the Tissue Culture & Art Project to make a (mouse-sized) artificial leather jacket out of a (mouse-derived) tissue culture cell line ("victimless leather").
In the comments, talk turns naturally to "victimless meat", with links to "Animal 57", the TCA’s own "Disembodied Cuisine" and the New Scientist article that I blogged last January, titled Lab-grown steaks nearing the menu.
I can’t believe that when I blogged that I missed quoting the immortal line Herman Vandenburgh of Brown University has proposed a regime for the physical conditioning of sedentary steaks.