It appears that someone has been trying to grow meat in a vat - and succeeded to some degree.
Where Robert Heinlein predicted something close to this in Methuselah's Children, scientists are actually attempting to make it happen.
Fortunately for most of us, the idea of harvesting a steak from the food vat is a ways off:
Australian researchers have grown muscle tissue from a frog, which they served with Calvados sauce at an exhibition in France in 2003. The frog steaks, they said, tasted like jelly on fabric.
SPAM may just take on a new meaning "Something Posing As Meat" (and you really won't be too sure just what is posing)
I don't think I'll ever look at a breakfast sausage the same way...
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But how will the new, bioengineered breakfast sausage look at you?
On a related note, bioengineered pigs producing omega-3 fatty acids.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/health/27pig.html
-The Bungle Lord
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