Comments on: Stem cells: a meaty issue

By: Tim Gantzhorn

Tim Gantzhorn — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:27:29 +0000

Mangesh Hattikudur,

Sorry if I scarred you for seafood for a while there :-(

By: David

David — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:13:55 +0000

I breathe through my leg, Mary. You should try it. Frees up the nose to do other things, like running.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:51:09 +0000

I do like almost every variety of edible crustaceans, but sea monkeys? Not so sure brine shrimp would be my ideal dinner. Although, and I can’t believe I’m bringing up this show twice in the same post, there’s a great South Park episode in which the boys pour sea monkeys in their teacher’s coffee. The next day, she dies. Coincidence? I think not. Actually, does anyone know if there’s any reason you couldn’t eat sea monkeys? I tried to find out via Google, but all I was able to scare up was sea-monkey trivia (they’re born with three eyes! they breathe through their legs! and so on).

By: Will

Will — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:21:20 +0000

i don’t know about you guys, but that picture makes me hungry. i bet those scientists sneak in bites when the others turn around.

By: David

David — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:18:58 +0000

I wouldn’t want to have been the janitor in your first grade, mangesh. That’s a whole lotta cleaning up.

As for lab-grown meat, I’m thinking more along the lines of Sea Monkeys. Ahhh, life before the Internet. Brutally slow to the point where THAT was exciting.

By: Mangesh

Mangesh — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:49:13 +0000

That’s pretty amazing! I’m actually kind of a lax vegetarian (I fall off the wagon a number of times each year), but I think I’d probably still choose a plate of NASCAR veggies over boneless chicken grown in a test tube.

Of course, what you’re disgusted by changes. I remember when my friend Tim Gantzhorn stood up in front of the class in first grade and told everyone that he had raw fish for dinner at a Japanese restaurant the night before, and the entire class vomited. And now everyone’s a fiend for sushi (even in Delaware!), and it’s downright commonplace.