Scientist working to grow meat in labFebruary 1st, 2011 - 3:07
pm ICT by ANI Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): A scientist at the
Medical University of South Carolina has been working for the
past 10 years to grow meat. Vladimir Mironov, one of only a few
scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering “cultured” meat,
believes that the product could help solve future global food
crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for
growing meat the old-fashioned way. He envisions football field-
sized buildings filled with large bioreactors, or bioreactors
the size of a coffee machine in grocery stores, to manufacture
what he calls ‘charlem’-'Charleston engineered meat.’ “It will
be functional, natural, designed food. How do you want it to
taste? You want a little bit of fat, you want pork, you want
lamb? We design exactly what you want. We can design texture. “I
believe we can do it without genes. But there is no evidence
that if you add genes the quality of food will somehow suffer.
Genetically modified food