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Lab-grown meat is on the way
It’s good for the planet, and surveys show that significant numbers of people would be willing to give it a try
It used to be limited to sci-fi fantasies and futurist predictions: one day, went the story, humanity would discover how to divorce meat production from livestock-raising and simply grow meat without the need for the massive resources it takes to raise farm animals.
As early as 1894, then-famed French chemist Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot claimed that by 2000, humans would dine on meat grown in a lab rather than from once-living animals. Winston Churchill made a similar prediction in 1931, and the idea became even more popular when Commander Riker revealed to an alien on Star Trek: The Next Generation that the meat humans consume on the USS Enterprise was grown rather than slaughtered.
Today, these science fiction dreams are starting to become science fact. Actually, it was NASA that led the way to making it so, funding successful research 20 years ago that explored whether long-term astronauts could grow meat – since they of course won’t be hauling Noah’s Ark in tow. But it turns out that while it will be a long time before we set off for long-distance cosmic tourism, the technology to create “clean meat” is needed here on Earth far more than it is in outer space.
(Paul Shapiro. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com, 19.12.2017.)
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