The project is lead by Mark Post, chairman of physiology, and a
team of scientists at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
The team has found a way to help the environment by reducing the
need for grazing land and reduce the carbon footprints left
behind by factory farming. The introduction of a test tube
hamburger patty can be also seen as an efficient way of meeting
the planet’s increasing need of suitable protein sources for a
growing population. The patty, being debuted sometime this fall,
is created by threading together thousands of small strips of
muscle tissue. The technique used to create the patty is similar
to using stem cells to re-grow human tissue and organs for
transplants. Due to the sensitive subject matter surrounding
stem cells many ethical concerns have been raised. Scientists at
Maastricht University have explained that for each donor animal,
millions more will be produced than if the donor animal had
simply just been butchered once. Much more research is needed to
find ways to lower