Okay, this gets its own category!  There is no spin cycle for this (yet), but I'm sure it will be elevated to that status in the future as the FDA finds ways to approve offering this technology unlabeled to humans for consumption.

This takes GMO (okay, not technically modified YET) to new levels of just plain gross.  In Jun of last year (2005) there was a lot of coverage about Cultured Meat... here is an article from University of Maryland (where much of the work is being done to develop this 'food source').

Here are some particularly tastey quotes:

"NASA space missions have shown that small amounts of edible meat can be created in a lab.... chicken nuggets without the chicken, on a large scale, may not be just a science fiction fantasy."

"The other method ... The mature cells could then be harvested and turned into a processed meat, like nuggets or hamburgers. " - if you weren't sworn off fast food before, you should seriously consider it now!

"The challenge is getting the texture right," says Matheny. "We have to figure out how to 'exercise' the muscle cells. For the right texture, you have to stretch the tissue, like a live animal would." - ... now we have a job for all those workers displaced when their jobs went over seas.

"...cultured meat could appeal to people concerned about food safety, the environment, and animal welfare, and people who want to tailor food to their individual tastes ... meat makers may one day sit next to bread makers on the kitchen counter." -- Can't wait to get one of these bad boys for Christmas.  What fantasy world are these people in?  this certainly sounds like a safe food... imagine the range of nutrients this stuff will have.  Here is an article that describes how home meat culturing might work.

There is a newly formed non-profit organization to promote this as the answer to the world's protien requirements, New Harvest located at http:/www.new-harvest.org.  Okay, so maybe New Harvest chould be under Spin Cycle, but they really haven't done anything to deserve it yet. 

I want to see these meat cultivator machines registered with the NAIS. 

Bet the cattle industry is thrilled that they're calling meat derived from animals "conventional meat" to stigmatize it as unclean, unhealthy, in-humane, poluting and an inefficient use of resources.

Bet Monsanto is thrilled with this just as they were in the process of patenting the pig.

Can't wait to see the PETA and Greenpeace response to this?  Will they promote it or not?