Will Your Next Burger Come From a Petri Dish?

IN-VITRO MEAT; A MULTIPLE BENEFIT BREAKTHROUGH: This really is the revolutionary breakthrough needed for allowing mass production of traditionally farmed meat without the need for living farmed animals. 

HOW AWESOME IS STEM CELL RESEARCH!!! We eat much less meat and more plant foods for reasons related to our health as well as the fact that we are animal lovers and believe in the humane treatment of all animals as organisms having a right to exist in harmony on Earth. As humans are stewards and guardians of the Earth, we are the caretakers of all life on Earth,  and we have duty and obligation to keeping the animals and plants in harmonious balance which involves allowing less animal pain and suffering and allowing balanced co-existence of humans and animals. This is now more than possible with the promise of cultured meat protein made to taste like the animals from which the stem cells originate from.

IMAGINE THE PRODUCTS FROM STEM CELL RESEARCH. This is an awesome development which has implications of tremendous magnitude. This research must be supported and allowed to further develop without opposition.

Currently and historically there are and have been animal health problems related to rearing, housing, caring for and maintaining, storing and transporting of livestock. The historic experiences with Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, Avian Flu, bacterial contaminated meat in processing plants, diseased livestock, hormonally injected livestock, and the reality of how this has affected human children populations. From the 1980's to 2010's why have children been born having higher incidences of life threatening allergies or allergies to never before seen products and many children are reaching puberty much earlier which warrants questioning about the correlation of artificial hormones in our foods to these incidences. It is not just the air we breathe but what we consume.

Farmed animals are administered hormones for maximizing body growth and growth rates as well as to maintain health and reproduction. This artificially alters their physiologies.

Now everyone can feel better about a future where this does not need to continue. The mass production and processing of livestock will not be needed on such scales. It really will do a lot for animal welfare as these living beings are raised to give up their lives so we can eat them.

ANIMALS ARE KILLED FOR FOOD AND THIS MAY NOT NEED TO CONTINUE. Raising animals for food is inefficient and inhumane in its most basic analysis as the animals are quite aware of their impending slaughter and their ongoing despair releases stress hormones which affect meat quality to say nothing about animal welfare and dignity.

MAY I HAVE ONE ORDER OF 10 KG BEEF TENDERLOIN WITH 5% FAT, HOLD THE HORMONES!!! Here is the opportunity to change meat farming drastically and to make tremendous improvements in meat quality and meat composition where cultured or in-vitro beef, pork, chicken, lamb, turkey may be selected off the shelf in desired quantities as we do now but in relative percentages of fats, muscle, bone (if relevant).

Above all, the scientists and supporters of this stem cell science have allowed humans a choice and opportunity to end the process of raising, feeding, housing, transporting and slaughtering livestock for meat and science has rather given humans the choice to select exactly the proportions of muscle meat protein to fat in 1kg, 5kg or 10kg or other quantities for instance. 

It is revolutionary indeed because through science, human consumers can eat healthier meat products, lessen the burden of live animal dependency and preserve air, land and water ecosystems that are currently polluted by the products of animal farming. The natural forests, rainforests and land devoted to animal farming may be allowed to flourish with endemic animal populations and return to balance with nature...in theory.

Wishing this a happy future and with the greatest admiration for the scientist and supporting scientists behind this as well as the Google co-founder who supported this and continues to do so.

Not just me but the animals thank you and all the generations of life that are to follow....:)

IN-VITRO MEAT; A MULTIPLE BENEFIT BREAKTHROUGH: This really is the revolutionary breakthrough needed for allowing mass production of traditionally farmed meat without the need for living farmed animals. 

HOW AWESOME IS STEM CELL RESEARCH!!! We eat much less meat and more plant foods for reasons related to our health as well as the fact that we are animal lovers and believe in the humane treatment of all animals as organisms having a right to exist in harmony on Earth. As humans are stewards and guardians of the Earth, we are the caretakers of all life on Earth,  and we have duty and obligation to keeping the animals and plants in harmonious balance which involves allowing less animal pain and suffering and allowing balanced co-existence of humans and animals. This is now more than possible with the promise of cultured meat protein made to taste like the animals from which the stem cells originate from.

IMAGINE THE PRODUCTS FROM STEM CELL RESEARCH. This is an awesome development which has implications of tremendous magnitude. This research must be supported and allowed to further develop without opposition.

Currently and historically there are and have been animal health problems related to rearing, housing, caring for and maintaining, storing and transporting of livestock. The historic experiences with Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, Avian Flu, bacterial contaminated meat in processing plants, diseased livestock, hormonally injected livestock, and the reality of how this has affected human children populations. From the 1980's to 2010's why have children been born having higher incidences of life threatening allergies or allergies to never before seen products and many children are reaching puberty much earlier which warrants questioning about the correlation of artificial hormones in our foods to these incidences. It is not just the air we breathe but what we consume.

Farmed animals are administered hormones for maximizing body growth and growth rates as well as to maintain health and reproduction. This artificially alters their physiologies.

Now everyone can feel better about a future where this does not need to continue. The mass production and processing of livestock will not be needed on such scales. It really will do a lot for animal welfare as these living beings are raised to give up their lives so we can eat them.

ANIMALS ARE KILLED FOR FOOD AND THIS MAY NOT NEED TO CONTINUE. Raising animals for food is inefficient and inhumane in its most basic analysis as the animals are quite aware of their impending slaughter and their ongoing despair releases stress hormones which affect meat quality to say nothing about animal welfare and dignity.

MAY I HAVA ONE ORDER OF 10 KG BEEF TENDERLOIN WITH 5% FAT, HOLD THE HORMONES!!! Here is the opportunity to change meat farming drastically and to make tremendous improvements in meat quality and meat composition where cultured or in-vitro beef, pork, chicken, lamb, turkey may be selected off the shelf in desired quantities as we do now but in relative percentages of fats, muscle, bone (if relevant).

Above all, the scientists and supporters of this stem cell science has allowed humans a choice and opportunity to end the process of raising, feeding, housing, transporting and slaughtering livestock for meat and science has rather given humans the choice to select exactly the proportions of muscle meat protein to fat in 1kg, 5kg or 10kg quantities for instance. 

It is revolutionary indeed because through science, human consumers can eat healthier meat products, lessen the burden of live animal dependency and preserve air, land and water ecosystems that are currently polluted by the products of animal farming. The natural forests, rainforests and land devoted to animal farming may be allowed to flourish with endemic animal populations and return to balance with nature...in theory.

Wishing this a happy future and with the greatest admiration for the scientist and supporting scientists behind this as well as the Google co-founder who supported this and continues to do so.

Not just me but the animals thank you and all the generations of life that are to follow....:)

But what about all the jobs that will become lost as the meat industry shrinks over the years because of the new lab grown meat? 

Considering all the hormones and  médications (some barely or completely illegal) they feed or inject to livestock from birth till the a short time before they are sent  to the meat factory , i am realy looking forward to eat clean meat.

we already have problem of  getting tricked into fake/cheap meat.

Now here we go, in the future you might get fake petri-dish meat!  as if cheap meat ( told to be good) wasn't enough!

CARNE SANS CARNAGE: The cultured or in-vitro meat discovery promises to be the most significant development concerning both human and animal welfare as it will reduce the dependency on: domestic livestock, the water and land for grazing, the destruction of rainforest and forest ecosystems. It will reduce the degree of gaseous and solid emissions of animal waste into water and air systems that pollute indiscriminately and threaten ocean and rainforest ecosystems. It will save hundreds of billions of dollars annually in transportation, housing and slaughter of hundreds of millions of livestock, the incidence of livestock borne diseases and transmission by microbial vectors. It will reduce the ongoing pain and suffering of livestock and domesticated animals for food. It will create the opportunity for hopefully careful management of local supply and demand and have profound implications for world hunger with regard to exploding birthrates and overpopulation which creates further cycles of hunger and poverty. Thank you to all who developed and financed this as it is revolutionary...   :)  

I believe this to be the beginning of a new era for the fast food industry. I could see the fast food industry taking the "lab burger" and feeding it to Americans without our knowledge. Therefore, it may not quickly end up in our supermarkets, but it could end up elsewhere in our food chain. 

It could save the animals from being killed for food. Animals have a place in this planet too. It's not just about us humans. This trend is welcome.

I think as allways , what will be the price or prize?? ,  Money rules the world , maybe someone could change it, or at least give it a chanche  , this might be a opportunity . We should try it out .

I believe plant based foods are much better for us than meat.  Meat consumption is partly responsible for many of our health issues.  I am not saying we should consume only vegetables or plant based foods, but we do need to reduce our meat consumption and include more plant based foods.  I do not want to eat insects but I see it coming to a future near us.  I can almost guarantee that the wealthy and powerful will be sure they get "real meat and real fish" the rest of us can eat the petri dish wonders.

If fresh meat is avalible it should be what we choose to eat. If this needs to happen, it needs to happen though.

How are they leaning on you National Geographic? I' ashamed of you... Since you're 'for' this with this article, trying to influence public opinion to create an imperial view that this is what we should be doing with NO MENTION WHATSOEVER of the NEGATIVE EFFECTS it could have on individual and mass health, jobs, small businesses, social communities, our landscape...

why dont we just eat insects?

tastes like chicken!

The hygiene of the chef and the burned edges of the burger does not make it more appealing at all..No michelin star for him... But for sure we need alternatives for sustainable food production. My new hobby is Aquaponics. A great way to produce food and no advanced quadrupeds needed.

Is there really a need of lab grown meat................

Cells encouraged to grow from serum made from the blood of unborn calves in slaughter houses?!

I'd rather eat bugs.

This "meat" doesn't offer a vegetarian alternative to meat, though. In order to grow the cells, one has to use medium supplemented with animal serum (typically bovine in source). Where does animal serum derive? Slaughterhouses. Check out this article from Scientific American: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/08/05/cultured-beef-a-380000-burger-grown-in-petri-dishes/

Try Boca Burgers.  $4.00 for 4 patties at your local health food store's frozen food section.

Gross.

I do not believe that livestock are responsible for 18-50% of the greenhouse emissions produced on this planet.

@Jody-Marie Davies I think if proper care is taken you could see positive effects in all of those areas. Seeing as this meat is being engineered why couldn't they add essential vitamins and minerals, lower the harmful fat content, and do extensive test before making it available to to the public. Once the process is perfected why couldn't they make the technology available to small businesses so they profit? Even if they didn't they wouldn't be hurting small farms that sell meat to locals, they would be taking away from the huge companies that do factory farming. Which was the main tone of this pro-petri article. I can't see this having an overly large effect on the job market because it will create jobs for people even if factory farming becomes less popular and those companies have to lay people off. I'm not sure what you mean when you say it will effect social communities. And as far a the landscape goes this is the answer to not having our landscape destroyed. If we don't find an alternative to factory farming then it is safe to say that more and more land will have to be converted for farm land to help raise and feed livestock.

I do agree though that it makes for a more interesting read when the writer plays devil's advocate. 

@Clement Dufour  No one is stopping you Clement.  If you want to eat insects then by all means blaze the trail!

@Deepanker Yadav Found the guy that posts before he reads the article.

@Deepanker Yadav Better than killing animals just because we can, dip s***.

@Pra Naf That's not going to help hungry people who can't afford food. 

@Geneva Whitecotton "I do not believe that livestock are responsible for 18-50% "Then you would be wrong, but don’t take my word for it, this is based on the UN report “Livestock's Long Shadow”.  just do a google search.  Cattle are a major source of environmental disasters.  So yeah I think petri burgers are a great idea or you could become a vegetarian.

@Jonathan Patchett Found the vegan