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lab-grown meat on the menu ‘within three years’
May 4 2016, 1:01am, The Times
The company that is developing artificial meat claims that it tastes just as good as the real thing, and has the advantage that it does not require an animal to be slaughteredWAYNE HUTCHINSON/CORBIS
Artificial meat could be for sale on the mass market within three or four years, according to an American company that is developing it. Memphis Meats is growing meat from stem cells in a laboratory. It tastes just as good, the company says, but does not require an animal to be reared or slaughtered.
As a result, making an artificial meatball is said to produce 90 per cent less greenhouse gases and save energy. The inefficiency of feeding livestock means generating one calorie of beef requires 23 calories of feed. But the lab-grown variety needs only three calories.