TEST TUBE HAMBURGERS JUST ONE YEAR AWAY
August 1st, 2011
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
THE WORLD's first lab-grown hamburger, is only a year away, according to Dutch scientist Mark Post, who is leading a research team towards developing beef grown from cattle stem cells.
"It is important right now to work on replacement of meat as we know it, because of the environmental and animal welfare issues that come with intense livestock keeping," said Post, a professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands. "If we continue with current production the way it is, meat will become a scarce item - ...
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