The first lab-grown steak!

The butchers are in trouble! Mark Post, a Dutch physiologist at the Maastricht University, has successfully developed a steak in his laboratory. He took stem cells from a cow, multiplied them and cultured them into muscle tissue to restore a piece of animal muscle.

Next Tuesday, Londoners will be the first to taste it. The unprecedented event is to prove that the proposed synthetic meat on which several laboratories around the world worked for years, may indeed become a reality.

Although this 140g of meat has cost USD320,000 (!) to manufacture, Mark Post believes in the possibility of industrial production of lab-grown meat within 5 to 10 years – with the aim of being able to feed seven billion people at lower cost (food, water and agricultural land). We wonder why not even produce steaks of protected species (panda, tiger …) without having to kill a single specimen?

So does food revolution begin in the United Kingdom? We are looking forward to the first impressions of the lucky Londoner who will be the first to taste this revolutionary burger!

Mathieu Rached