£250k synthetic meat burger to be created

A £250,000 beef burger made of synthetic meat is to be created.
The fastfood product will be cooked in London next week and will be made up of 3,000 strips of artificial beef made from a cow's cells which were grown in a laboratory.
Professor Mark Post is hopeful the burger, which will be created in front of specially-invited members of the public, will be one of many to be made in such a way in the future.
He told the Independent newspaper: 'Eventually, my vision is that you have a limited herd of donor animals which you keep in stock in the world.
'You basically kill animals and take all the stem cells from them, so you would still need animals for this technology.
'Right now, we are using 70 per cent of all our agricultural capacity to grow meat through livestock. You are going to need alternatives.
'If we don't do anything, meat will become a luxury food and will become very expensive.'

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