Apparently, it's growing in Professor Mark Post's lab in Maastricht University in the Netherlands. 2 cm strips of muscle have been grown so far and the lab is working towards growing enough meet by October, when a celebrity chef will cook into a juicy hamburger.Ew or Yum? I don't think I'll have to opportunity to find out as the burger will cost over £200,000. However, the researchers hope that they will be able to create a more cost effective method of creating the synthetic meat, resulting in an environmentally friendly solution for world hunger.
Excited? I'm not sure, but I'm wondering if the donor cow will get residual fees every time one of these hamburgers is eaten?! Check out the BBC article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16972761
This is an example of Science Fiction becoming Science Fact. So many SciFi stories include synthetic versions of the four major food groups. After reading several J.D. Robb "...in Death" books in a row, I've caught myself willing my microwave to be an autochef and cook me up some Grilled Calamari or my mother's Chicken Biryani.
technovely.com lists several synthetic SciFi foods, including the Yeast-Beast machine, a vat that produces tissue-grown meat cutlets, featured in David Brin's short story, Natulife, published in Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1994.
What books have you read that takes place in a future that includes synthetic food! How is it made? Food slot? dehydrated cubes? How does it taste?
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