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(Well, for some reason, serendip felt it necessary to go back to the homepage while I posted my comment, so this will probably suck since I have to rewrite it. Ugh.)

The association I have with cell culture is tissue regeneration, and the association I have with, say, a hamburger, is a cow. To combine food and cell culture is just plain unappetizing. Although there is some disagreement as to the definition of :human nature," we know that early humans started out as omnivorous hunter-gatherers, hunting wild animals and gathering nuts and berries, or whatever a gatherer gathers. But now we have options available to us that the early humans never had, and with this almost excessive amount of information and demands for availability on nearly every commodity, we clearly strayed from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. With so much available to us now, food fads from atkins to the grapefruit diet have appeared, and such paradoxes as the industrial organic food market and "unnatural" food philosophies such as veganism are a part of our everyday lives. Since canned food, how we think about food and what constitues as acceptable food has changed for us, and our "human nature," for the most part, now submits to mass-produced and heavily-modified food. The connection between petri dish chicken nuggets and an actual chicken squawking about the farmyard is a almost a severed one, yet look at how much processed food from real animals we currently take in.