Posted: 5/25/2015
Trigger
Just read “This is the future of meat”. A salient quote from the article: “Professor Mark Post, who is part of the faculty at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, … Two years ago, Post's team of researchers presented their first major discovery in the form of a five-ounce hamburger patty, which was created in a lab, but still was remarkably similar to ones sold on supermarket shelves.”
Here is the professor’s webpage: http://culturedbeef.net/mark-post/
Synonyms: Lab grown meat; in vitro meat; cultured meat
A Salvation To Humanity
- A roughly estimated 4 billion humans would like to eat more meat, but can’t
- The killing of so many animals for food might become obsolete
- And much more
Perhaps, this approach is not working, but I am convinced that humans will develop some form of synthetic meat or synthetic food within the next 20-50 years and thereby significantly reducing humanity's dependence on traditional/conventional agriculture and livestock farming.
The Price Of Lab Grown Meat Is Falling
Apparently, Prof. Post made further progress in reducing the price of lab meat: “Now, Post is working to overcome some of lab-grown meat's biggest obstacles, including its price. And he believes it's only a short matter of time before he succeeds. "It was $350,000 when we first publicized the patty," said Post. "At this point we've already managed to cut the cost by almost 80 percent. I don't think it will be long before we hit our goal of 65 to 70 dollars per kilo."That would drop the five-ounce burger to below $10, a number that Post hopes will eventually drop even further.”
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