The Dutch scientists predict that over the next few decades the world’s population
will increase so quickly that there will not be enough livestock to feed everyone.
As a result, they say, laboratory-grown beef, chicken and lamb could become normal.
The scientists are currently developing a burger which will be grown from 10,000 stem cells extracted from cattle, which are then left in the lab to multiply more than a billion times to produce muscle tissue similar to beef.
The product is called ‘in vitro’ meat.
"I don’t see any way you could rely on old-fashioned livestock in the coming decades.
In vitro meat will be the only choice left."
- Mark Post, professor of physiology at Maastricht University
As a result, they say, laboratory-grown beef, chicken and lamb could become normal.
The scientists are currently developing a burger which will be grown from 10,000 stem cells extracted from cattle, which are then left in the lab to multiply more than a billion times to produce muscle tissue similar to beef.
The product is called ‘in vitro’ meat.
"I don’t see any way you could rely on old-fashioned livestock in the coming decades.
In vitro meat will be the only choice left."
- Mark Post, professor of physiology at Maastricht University
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