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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

This is nuts - Quornstruction: The house made of meat or the In Vitro Flesh House with Responsive Sphincter doors & windows

A designer called Mitchell Joachim has suggested something rather disgusting -- a house made of meat. But before you go calling the RSPCA, you should know that it's entirely cruelty-free, unlike the meat ship, because it's built from flesh grown in a lab.

It's a concept structure created from flesh cells that have been grown in a Petri dish. It's called the In Vitro Meat Habitat, and Joachim says that he's actually developing the concept in a lab: "It is intended to be a ‘victimless shelter’, because no sentient being was harmed in the laboratory growth of the skin."

read more: wired.co.uk

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