It’s been reported that Dutch scientists have managed to make
some lab-grown hamburger but would you like to eat some? Are we
going to be a society living on lab-grown products, including
meat? MSNBC reports that some Dutch scientist intend to serve
the world’s first lab-grown hamburger by the end of year. This
research has been funded by an anonymous investor and intends to
to develop “life-transforming technologies” and in this case to
find an alternative to traditional animal-reading methods of
producing meat. The process has been explained by the Time as
follows: “First, bovine stem cells are grown in a vat and
transformed into thousands of layers of beef muscle cells. The
thin layers are then minced and mixed with animal fat, also lab-
grown, to form a ball of meat — or something like it. If the
team, led by Mark Post, a physiologist at the University of
Maastricht in the Netherlands, successfully produces that
synthetic lump, the burger will be cooked by British
experimental chef Heston Blumenthal.” Acco