Lab-produced meat.12.06.2011

Source: The Times.

'Cultured' meat i.e. lab-produced tissue for consumption could lessen the impact of wide-scale destruction of our rainforests, which are culled to raise crops and graze animals for slaughter to feed the world's burgeoning meat-eating populations. Emergent economies like China and India are meat-orientated.

The science is likely to be developed in five years time. Scientists from Oxford and Amsterdam Universities are working on the production of lab-grown tissue.

Environmental

issue spawns tissue, culture

of lab-grown lamb crowns.