Basically, they haven't figured how to grow blood vessels in their lab meat.

and they haven't figured out how to grow connective tissues connecting the thin layers of muscle or how to intersperse lipids. At this stage we could grow very thin layers or nets of muscle tissues but the taste would be off and the texture would be way off, though it would probably be more healthy.

The easiest way to get to lab grown meat would be to continue on our current track of engineering animals down to meat factories. We have come a long way down that track already. All that is really left is to engineer away mobility and the rest of the brain not associated with autonomic system functions and set them up with feeding and waste collection tubes. Somehow I don't think this is what PETA is shooting for.

Bithead, you lost me if you were referring tomy comment. I'm not taking a position here on any methods of keeping, slaughtering or processing animals. Just noting that humans are genetically omnivores and eating meat is as natural as breathing, whereas PETA thinks eating meat is bad in and of itself.

Mmmmph. My misread, then. See, when you spoke of human detention, I thought you to be making a pass at jailhouse conditions vs conditions animals are held in. I was simply following the (mis-)perceived tangent. My bad.

How one obtains such tasty meat and at what price are separate issues.

Plus, once the "product" is ready for market, it will have to be tested on animals. Extensively. The FDA requires it.

Sorry, PETA.

FAIL.