Will you try this? Scientists create first laboratory-grown meat

The “cultured meat”, which uses real meat cells, is grown outside a live animal

The meat is administered with “oxygen and nutrients such as sugars and minerals” until they grow enough

The entire process to manufacture the meat requires 9 to 21 days

The company’s products will be free of antibiotics, fecal matter, pathogens, and other contaminants found in conventional meat

MEMPHIS, Tennessee – Scientists successfully made the first laboratory meat which smells and tastes like real meat.

The “cultured meat”, which uses real meat cells, is grown outside a live animal. Many are excited about the new discovery saying it will be the answer to food need in the future.

The Memphis Meats unveiled the new meat saying protein cells from cows, pigs, and chickens are administered with “oxygen and nutrients such as sugars and minerals” until they grow into steak-sized samples.

The entire process to make the meat requires 9 to 21 days and among the company’s first products in line were hot dogs, sausages, burgers, and meatballs.

The company claimed that the products will be developed using recipes perfected by award-winning chefs for over a half century.

“This is absolutely the future of meat,” said CEO Uma Valeti, MD.

“We plan to do to animal agriculture what the car did to the horse and buggy. Cultured meat will completely replace the status quo and make raising animals to eat them simply unthinkable,” Valeti added.

Kirstie McCrum mentioned in her article for The Mirror published on March 21 that Valete, who is a cardiologist trained at the Mayo Clinic, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota and president of the Twin Cities American Heart Association.

Valeti founded Memphis Meats alongside with Nicholas Genovese, Ph.D., a stem cell biologist, and Will Clem, Ph.D., a biomedical engineer. Clem also owns a chain of barbecue restaurants in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Sergey Brin, who is the Google co-founder, provided $ 333, 000 (P15.4 million) to fund the research for cultured meat, describing it as a technology with “the capability to transform how we view our world”.

An article by Rob Waugh for Metro published on March 16 said that even Bruce Friedrich, executive director of The Good Food Institute, believed the new meat as something beneficial.

“Cultured meat is sustainable, creates far fewer greenhouse gasses than conventional meat, is safer, and doesn’t harm animals,” Friedrich said.

“For people who want to eat meat, cultured meat is the future,” he added.

Memphis Meats revealed that they plan to produce a calorie of meat from just three calories in inputs, as compared to a traditional 23 calories for the feed.

The company’s products will be free of antibiotics, fecal matter, pathogens, and other contaminants found in conventional meat.

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