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Petri dish to dinner plate, in-vitro meat coming soon‘Cultured meat’ could be the answer that feeds the world, saves the environment and spares the lives of millions of animals, scientists say. Conventional meat production is notoriously inefficient. For every 15 grams of edible meat, you need to feed the animals on around 100 grams of vegetable protein, an increasingly unsustainable equation.

Petri dish to dinner plate, in-vitro meat coming soon
‘Cultured meat’ could be the answer that feeds the world, saves the environment and spares the lives of millions of animals, scientists say. Conventional meat production is notoriously inefficient. For every 15 grams of edible meat, you need to feed the animals on around 100 grams of vegetable protein, an increasingly unsustainable equation.

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    Using stem cells harvested from leftover animal material from slaughterhouses, Post nurtures them with a feed concocted...
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    just. stop. now. please. i mean, i get...whole “feeding
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    fuck, just don’t eat meat…
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    Pretty amazing science but a rather worrying idea…
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    know, we could just eat plant based protein.
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