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Show TO GROW MEAT ARTIFICIALLY The artificial production of food by merely chemical processes has always al-ways been a dream of tho scientinc man A recent discovery brings this within tho possibilities, provided the chemist is allowed an organic coll to start with. In a recent lssuo we reported in this department the noteworthy note-worthy suocss of Prof, W. H. Lewis, and his wife, of Johns Hopkins, in causing cellular substances to grow Indefinitely outside of the organisms to which they originally belonged. Dr. Lowis now suggests that this may enable us to 'grow mean" on a commercial com-mercial scale. Says Tho Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette (New York, October), Octo-ber), quoting In part from T. P.'s weekly: "What Dr. Lowls and his wife, claim to have actually accomplished Is this: They have taken pieces of chicken, placed them in a saline solution, and grown chicken meat They have discovered dis-covered that It Is possible to cut off some of this chicken meat without hindering further .growth, 'and the process can be repeated indefinitely. They also claim that the process can be applied to any sort of flesh. Dealing Deal-ing with tho quostion of his discoveries, discover-ies, Dr. Lewis says: 'The value of all these experiments whloh my wife and I have conducted has several different dif-ferent phases. For instance, it may some day have a -great commercial value. There is nothing to prevent on operation from being conductod on a much larger scale. Suppose that you had a number of vats filled with 3alino solutions, and that in these solutions so-lutions you put the muscles or other organs of various animals, not only while in the embryo but oven when thoy had reached the adult stage.. There would be large growths, and" these would bo edible In other words, the salt solution could be turned Into Incubators, sure to hatch, and from which piecos of embryo chicks could be taken every day without hindering the Increase of the supply ' "The possibilities conjured up by this statement arei so great as to almost al-most verge on the grotesque The idea of actually growing 'meat appears offend of-fend tho laws of nature, and yet science has done stranger things. Tho more Immediate good ljkely to result from tho discovery .would be of a medicinal character. It would be possible pos-sible to transplant organs of the human hu-man body In these solutions, to observe ob-serve their growth, what they feed on, what thoy secrete, the things which are beneficial to them and those that nre dangorous. The way would thus be cleared for many important medicinal discoveries, 9as the discovery discov-ery of the cure for many growths cancer and tumor for instance would be greatly faclllated by discovering on what they feed. I do not think, however, that tho day is likely to arrive yet whon our butchers will sell home-grown meat manufactured by tho Dr. Lewis process." oo |