Posted on 03/12/2015 10:10:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
TEL AVIV/FRANKFURT, March 12 (Reuters) - Two years after scientists cooked up the first test tube beef hamburger, researchers in Israel are working on an even trickier recipe: the world's first lab-grown chicken.
Professor Amit Gefen, a bioengineer at Tel Aviv University, has begun a year-long feasibility study into manufacturing chicken in a lab, funded by a non-profit group called the Modern Agriculture Foundation which hopes "cultured meat" will one day replace the raising of animals for slaughter.
The foundation's co-founder Shir Friedman hopes to have produced "a recipe for how to culture chicken cells" by the end of the year.
The researchers say their task is more difficult than producing the first lab-grown hamburger, a $300,000 beef patty cooked up at Maastricht University in the Netherlands after five years of research financed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Rather than gathering small fibres of cow muscle into one big chunk of meat, Gefen will try to make a whole piece of chicken, starting from a single cell.
Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals offered a $1 million prize to the first lab able to use chicken cells to create commercially viable test tube meat, but the 2014 deadline passed without anyone laying claim.
Gefen, an expert in tissue engineering, said the plan is to culture chicken cells and let them divide and multiply. In previous research he used growth factors extracted from tumours to stimulate cells, but this is not appropriate for food.
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We believe that cultured meat can potentially change the human food culture tremendously. Today, the meat, dairy and egg industries are among the major contributors to climate changes; they consume huge amounts of valuable resources such as energy and fresh water; contribute to the outbreak of pandemics as swine flu, and are the cause of deaths of billions of animals every year.Could you guys just lie a little less transparently, now . . . ? Can’t? K then.
Cultured meat has the ability to change this reality. Meat could become environmentally friendly, healthier and more ethical. …
Wouldn’t it just be easier to make soylent green out of the Grass (vegan) fed free range (yoga excersized) members for PeTa?
They would likely agree.....................
LOL! Yes!
$300,000.00 Burger?
So...I guess this means the Dems will be askin’ to raise minimum raise...
I worked in a Lab may years ago helping out ,cleaning up etc and when I hear ,test tube beef hamburger or lab-grown burger or test-tube chicken it Turns My Stomach
Time to start checking into backyard chicken coops.
How long does it take to teach a lab to grow burgers, and how do you keep him from eating them before they’re done?
The hens are secured in beakers. Beeves are protected from labs in beevers.
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