Too fucking bizarre. Evidently some scientists in the UK have developed trees that grow meat. Yes, I'm totally serious. Get this:
"We take the genes from cattle that produce key proteins and splice them into the reproductive cells of grapefruit trees," he (Dr. Vincent Tartley) says. "When the seeds mature into trees, instead of producing ordinary citrus fruit, the pulp contains meat. You get the flavor, texture -- even the smell."
Those who've sampled the meat agree it tastes like the real thing.
"I was a bit skeptical at first when I sank my teeth into a hamburger after they told me it grew on a tree," says Londoner Mark Basker, 41, who participated in a consumer taste-test. "But it was juicy and delicious -- nothing leafy about it at all."