Got culture?

First Cultured Hamburger, 2013   (The Meat Revolution, Mark Post)

Raising cows for meat seems rather uncouth, whereas producing meat from stem cells seems quite cultured.

And it literally is.  The Israeli firm MeaTech managed to produce a 3.67-ounce steak via “tissue samples taken from a living cow.”  The procedure utilized stem cells that later matured into “real fat and muscle cells.”

The result was a marbled steak that greatly resembled the “farm-raised” prototype.  Lab-created meat not only makes for a kinder world, but also for a cleaner one.  Livestock herds produce a whole lot of methane, which can warm the atmosphere to a far greater extent than carbon dioxide.  Slaughterhouse  practices also produce a good deal of “greenhouse gas emissions.”

Resources

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10290369/Worlds-largest-lab-grown-steak-weighing-nearly-four-ounces-3D-printed.html

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