How Close Are We to Test Tube Meat?

• BanguIzai

  30 Oct 11, 01:17

  How Close Are We to Test Tube Meat?

  

  The VSS eNewsletter has previously reported research into producing test tube meat. According to one article –http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/64439 – science fiction may become reality within a year: "[S]cientists in the U.S. and Europe are competing furiously to bring lab meat to market. Many predict it will be ready to sell in supermarkets and restaurants within six months to a year and vendors are lining up to buy it".
   

  Is this good news? Maybe. The same article quotes the New Yorker magazine as stating that, "The global livestock industry is responsible for nearly 20 percent of humanity's greenhouse-gas emissions. Cattle consume nearly 10 percent of the world's freshwater resources, and 80 percent of all farmland is devoted to the production of meat. The consequences of eating meat, and our increasing reliance on factory farms, are almost as disturbing for human health".

• Darkness_hacker99

  30 Oct 11, 08:36

  In about 10 years + more time