From Grass-Fed to Lab-Grown: How Meat Is Evolving

wsj ^ | 12/11/2018 | Matt McDonald and Biography @MattMcDReports Matt.McDonald@WSJ.com Jason Bellini

[BenLurkin]

Israeli-based Aleph Farms says it’s figured out how to create the structure of real beef from animal cells in a petri dish — so that it actually feels like you’re biting into a piece of meat, rather than just tasting it.

WSJ’s Jason Bellini visited the company’s headquarters in a technology park on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, for a taste of what Aleph Farms says is the first lab-grown steak in the world.

Aleph Farms is among several companies in a race to grow meat in a lab using clusters of cells from animals, without actually killing them.

egulators in the U.S. are still evaluating whether cultured meats are safe for consumers, and whether they should even be called meat.

While proponents say these new meats can be produced at a fraction of the environmental costs that come from traditional, large-scale farming, at this early stage of development, producing a pound of meat from cells is still far more expensive than that from an animal.

[Daffynition]

Thank you. A gift that will keep on giving.

My image hosting site makes the size...and I'm in the habit of just copying and pasting the url, without the extra work.

I hope I can remember to do it, now that I have the tool. :)

[YogicCowboy]

Grass fed: natural diet, more nutritious.

Lab grown: No thank you. (not: No, thank you.)