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$375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday

Posted by Soulskill on from the order-yours-while-supplies-last dept.

sciencehabit writes "If you take some scientists' word for it, the biggest agricultural revolution since the domestication of livestock is starting on Monday — in an arts center in London. At a carefully orchestrated media event, Dutch stem cell researcher Mark Post is planning to present the world's first test-tube hamburger. Its patty — financed by an anonymous billionaire — is made from meat that Post has laboriously grown from bovine stem cells in his lab at an estimated cost of $375,000, just to prove a point: that it is possible to produce meat without slaughtering animals."

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  1. It tastes like.... Despair? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cue the Better of Ted jokes...

  2. Beats meat by bryanandaimee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scientist says you can't beat meat. Now that's cultured!

    1. Re:Beats meat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's why I prefer my baby seal freshly clubbed by another baby seal while the mother is forced to watch.

  3. Good luck selling it by Registered+Coward+v2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Given the reaction to GM crops you think the EU will embrace the Frankenburger? Much like the monster it will be vilified, misunderstood and eventually driven out and destroyed.

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  4. Re:Don't care. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just remember that God invented cows to make grass fit for human consumption!!!!

  5. Re:I wonder about the taste by LordLimecat · · Score: 1, Funny

    Every time someone says "mouthfeel" I have an inexplicable desire to punch something.