Test-Tube Burgers ~ Meat Without Slaughter...

Thanks to NYTimes Dot Earthling Andrew Revkin for writing Meat Without Slaughter spotting Michael Specter's New Yorker piece on Test-Tube Burgers. He writes about in vitro meat inventor Dutchman Willem van Eelen who...

"...was seized by an idea: “Why can’t we grow meat outside of the body? Make it in a laboratory, as we make so many other things.” [...] A new discipline, propelled by an unlikely combination of stem-cell biologists, tissue engineers, animal-rights activists, and environmentalists, has emerged in both Europe and the U.S. [...] Lab-grown meat raises powerful questions about what most people see as the boundaries of nature and the basic definitions of life. [...] “The goal [of cultured meat] is to create the volume previously provided by a million animals.”

See also Humanity+ article by Hank Hyena on Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives and my past posts, including on Synthetic Food and In Vitro Meat .