BBC News - Grow your own meat

Professor Mark Post: "The basic problem with current meat production is that it's inefficient"

Mark Post has been given €300,000 to make a hamburger, in one year. Easy money, you might think, but try doing that without using meat that has come from an animal.

Professor Post is one of the few people on the planet who can. As head of the department of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, he is in the vanguard of a new wave of research to create a way of producing meat that cuts out the need for animal husbandry altogether.

Some ideas, some technologies may sound like science fiction, but they are [...]

Full article at bbc.co.uk

 

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