Synthetic meat means better animal welfare, less harm to the environment, and it’s improving rapidly

IMAGE: Synthetic Wagyu beef — Osaka University

The first tasting of a synthetic hamburger obtained by multiplying animal cells in a bioreactor took place on August 5, 2013, and was considered reasonably successful: although the cost of that initial production was obviously exorbitant, as befits a proof of concept (€250,000), the exponential growth of the cell…