Lab-Grown Leather Could Be a Reality In 5 Years

fangmcgee writes "Lab-grown leather apparel could hit the runways in as little as five years—all without harming a hair on a single animal's head, according to Andras Forgacs, co-founder and CEO of Modern Meadow, a Missouri-based startup that's approaching meat-and-leather production from a tissue-bioengineering, rather than farming, point of view. Backed by Breakout Labs, the grant-awarding foundation headed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Modern Meadow seeks to combine regenerative medicine with three-dimensional printing to synthesize leather and ultimately meat."

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Re:And much more expensive than real or fake

[Anonymous Coward]

This sort of thing would really be good for my old vegan roommate, who every once in a while had to have bacon

What a hypocrite. I don't subscribe to Veganism, but it's based on the ethical stance that it's wrong to exploit animals.

So if you think meat is murder, milk is rape etc. then "once in a while he had to have bacon" is like saying "once in a while he had to murder/rape someone" or maybe "once in a while he had to own a slave."