Where do they get the cells from? It must be animal's isn't
that right? So you still have to have animals.

Loraine Tichenor

According to many bone specialists,the reason so many people have worn sockets at the hips,knees etc.are the dangerous additives to food,either in the meal and growth enhancers given to livestock,or the post-production stabilizers added to lengthen shelf life. What makes anybody think people would want to eat food that involves cellular growth by radiation.Okay.feed it to space pioneers who cannot enjoy fresh store bought beef,but I'll wait the hour it takes to roast in the oven!

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs!!!

what happens if this creepy device picks up human cells, this is just cloning secret style....Isn't kin to woody allen raising his own special piece from childhood....."look for the real fly movie soon"

OMGZ! Scary new technolgy make me scared.

This is gross....and creepy!!!

What?!? That is RIDICULOUS! Microwaves cause side effects which we do not even understand after 20+ years. Multiplying cellular growth via radiation device? What do we know for sure about radiation? To top the list, CANCER! Second, electromagnetic and radio wave interference. Our bodies do contain a certain amount of electricity, you can go ahead and set yours on an imbalance, but I'll stick to my ALL NATURAL LOCAL GROWN LIVESTOCK! Like they said, give to the starved kids in Africa and Nigeria, or even the Astronauts who cannot get their 0G hands on a nice 2lb ground beef burger (they are Astronauts, so education is involved in their career so I doubt they would touch it unless lied to by NASA or U.S.A. GOVT), but I am not going to touch it! Thanks, but no thanks. This device needs to be banned and the creator needs to be put on lockdown. Anyone who gave this device an award or brought attention to it needs to be investigated! You can TRY to play god, but you cannot be God! What happened in the Philadelphia Project? Anybody? Keep it up and we'll all be "Fused" into the asphalt streets and in another paradox.

I originally read this article through MSN and was a bit confused at first. I have a PhD in Astro-Phyics through KU. I work in conjuction with NASA by helping them analyze data from satelites, telescopes, and rovers. I have never heard of anything like this before. So, I checked out the contest, its rules, and each of the 8 design finalists. It was then that I realized that all of these designs, including the "Cocoon Cooker," are in fact not real. They're simply "concepts" of future products and are nothing more than an idea at this point. If you read more in depth about how this product "works," you'll actually find it quite humorous, because there is very little science behind this "idea." Even if this product somehow comes to life (no pun intended) in the next few years, it'll have to go through countless ethical obstactles before it is mass produced and sold to the public.

The Brave New World and Soylent Green come to mind here. The biggest deterent to this thing's popularity would have to be the creep factor. Since it obviously involves cellular cloning of some type the benefits could be enormous. No more feed lots or inhumane slaughtering of masses of animals. Seed tissue could be harvested from living animals doing away with the need for killing them. However, that beeing said I am quite sure that PETA will find some reason to object. LOL.....

YUCK I AM BARFING

What a wonderful invention!!

This will save so many people from starvation and so many animals from suffering.

To those that commented that this is gross how is it less gross than raising living animals in crowded warehouses that are filled with animal waste and then stringing them up on a conveyer belt to slit their throats or sometimes (especially in the case of chickens) boil them alive.

Okay guys lets not hit the panic button yet. Does anyone remember reading about what was said when electric lights were invented. Or how about x-rays. Or for that matter any other invention. So there may be complications down the road. Albeit maybe even dire cosequences.But since this is something new we will have to travel that road and lets see where it takes us.There will always be something new and mysterious that we won't know what to expect.Thats a chance we will have to take to better ourselves.I hope we do everything we can to avoid all health issues with this. And I applaud the makers for coming up with this.The downside will possibly be the farmers. Cattle,pigs and chicken farming may become a thing of the past...

Hell yeah, sign me up for one. You guys that think this is creepy never had to kill and clean a chicken I guess. Take a visit to the slaughterhouse and watch the cows go marching in to the bangstick area. The way we do it now is creepy already.
Hey, chicken without skin and pinfeathers, Beef without gristle, fish without scales and bones. Just pure meat with no growth hormones and no chance of diseases or contamination. Sounds better than my last happy meal.
I'll take two.

How about just being vegan. The largest contribution to global warming is raising lifestock-even "free range" style. We can meet our nutrient needs and support the environment by avoiding meat. Why produce another "thing" to be thrown away.

Anyone remember Soylent Green

its a recipe book for human!

Vegans will be the first to die come a large famine.

When this actually exists it might be a good thing. I very much doubt we'll be producing the meat in our own kitchens, any more than most of us make our own bread and culture our own yogurt right now, but we might not mind purchasing meat that had been grown in a laboratory. The original cells could just as easily come from organic, free range animals who had never been fed antibiotics or hormones, which would actually make it healthier. OTOH, I'm not holding my breath, as this is many years away. I'll probably have no teeth left by then and will really appreciate something that is easy to chew. :(

When this actually exists it might be a good thing. I very much doubt we'll be producing the meat in our own kitchens, any more than most of us make our own bread and culture our own yogurt right now, but we might not mind purchasing meat that had been grown in a laboratory. The original cells could just as easily come from organic, free range animals who had never been fed antibiotics or hormones, which would actually make it healthier. OTOH, I'm not holding my breath, as this is many years away. I'll probably have no teeth left by then and will really appreciate something that is easy to chew. :(

When this actually exists it might be a good thing. I very much doubt we'll be producing the meat in our own kitchens, any more than everybody makes their own bread and produces their own yogurt right now, but we might not mind purchasing meat that had been grown this way. The original cells could just as easily come from organic, free range animals who had never been fed antibiotics or hormones. OTOH, I'm not holding my breath, as this is many years away. I'll probably have no teeth left by then and will really appreciate something that is easy to chew. :(

While many people can be vegans, it isn't possible for everyone. There are people, particularly autistic children, who cannot have ANY of the following foods: all dairy products including milk and cheese, wheat, rye, oats, barley, peanuts, soy, other beans, corn, and eggs. May I ask just where they would get their protein and most other nutrients, if not from meat? You cannot live entirely on green vegetables and fruit. Certainly if meat could be grown in a laboratory, the original animals from which they get the cells could be organic, free range, and free of antibiotics, hormones, etc. There wouldn't even be an ethical problem because they wouldn't be killing anything.

as long as it prepares food and it doesn't complain about it I'll take two

Hello people,the goverment has already approved the sell of cloned meat. I think we should be more worried about that then some invention that we as a consumer have total control over.Supply and demand if no one buys it then in can't be made.