It's been a while since I heard of anything from the lab-grown meat industry, but it's been ticking along quietly in the background. Not yet ready for the next great agricultural revolution, but getting closer all the time. And it still involves killing cows, which somewhat misses the point ("fetal bovine serum is not that gross" - actually, I think you'll find that it is). But there's real progress here - fewer animals used per product, tastier meat, and much, much cheaper than that first $300,000 burger.
Memphis Meats was able to serve chicken to the two dozen or so attendees to yesterday’s event, and will continue scaling up its product. The Wall Street Journal cites a “1 pound of chicken meat for less than $9,000" cost estimate, but that cost is dropping rapidly with each new batch, Steve Myrick, the company’s vice president of business development, told Gizmodo. He hopes that by the time the slaughter-free meats hit stores by 2021, the cost matches that of regular meat.
http://gizmodo.com/startup-makes-the-first-lab-grown-chicken-tender-and-du-1793299025
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