<Artificial Fish Sticks.

The fact that is seems to require the blood of calves kind of louses up the animal rights issues for now, but other growth mediums are under consideration.

...scientists who grew it have been banned from tasting it until they receive approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Oh sure. No one has sneaked a taste behind closed doors. Right.

All humor aside, the eventual ability to grow real meat in a lab raises many possibilities. Depending on the eventual material requirements (does it use more or fewer resources than, for example, raising cattle?), it may eventually be cheaper and easier than harvesting certain animals for meat. Meat from rare or unusual animals could be used without endangering the species. It will be interesting to see if the prospects are greeted enthusiastically by PETA and other animal rights groups, or whether, like with environmentalists and the cold fusion flap, their natural leftist and antitech tendencies will overwhelm their logic.

Twilight Zone prospect: use muscle tissue harvested harmlessly from human biopsies....ewwwww.

McLong Pig anyone?