The world’s first laboratory-grown beef burger was flipped out of a petri dish. with food tasters declaring it tasted “close to meat”.
Grown in-vitro from cattle stem cells at a cost of 250,000 euros ($332,000), the burger was cooked and eaten in front of television cameras to gain the greatest media coverage for the culmination of a five-year science experiment.
Pressed for a more detailed description of the flavor, food writer Josh Schonwald said the cultured beef had an “animal protein cake” like quality to it, adding that he would like to try it with some of the extras often served with traditional burgers – salt, pepper, ketchup and jalapenos.
I – Word Understanding
Laboratory-grown beef – the meat was made from the shoulder muscle cells of two organically raised cows ,put into a nutrient solution to help them grow into small strands of meat.
Petri dish – a shallow, circular, transparent dish with a flat lid, used for the culture of microorganisms.
Grown in-vitro – meat-a test tube meat from animal flesh product that has never been part of a living animal.
Culmination – to reach highest altitude.
II – Have your say
Kobe beef of has become a household name around the world. But what makes Japanese beef so good and how much does it really cost?
In negative point of view, in vitro meat costs costs more than $300,000 to make. Would lab-grown meat do good benefits to us?
More than 10 billion farm animals were killed for human consumption in 2010, according to Farm USA. As the world’s population grows to an estimated nine billion by 2050. Is lab grown meat really the answer?
151 First taste of test-tube burger declared ‘close to meat’
