Lab-grown Meat Is Our Tasty Future and Is Already a Huge Business

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In 2013, at a press conference in London, food technician Peter Verstrate and scientist Mark Post unveiled the first ‘cultured’ beef burger. It cost £215,000 (around US$295,000) and had taken them seven years to make. It was a start.

Cultured meat, also known as lab-grown meat, cell-based meat, or more colloquially ‘meatless’ meat, is an idea whose…