It only cost £200,000 to make! This should replace real meat in no time!

And so the end of days begins.

/jk

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with humanity.

Global demand for meat is at an all time high and with a growing population farmers will struggle to meet demand in the (distant) future. We'll need to come up with something to meet the demand for meat, this seems like it could be one solution.

Lab grown meat isn't exactly a new idea though, it's one of many proposed solutions such as eating processed insects (which provides ten times more protein than rearing cattle does per food unit), taking synthetic supplements, cultivating more protein rich crops, etc. We don't really have to worry about taking these approaches for decades though, but it's worth getting them right now instead of finding out about potential problems later.

As for people saying it's disgusting, take someone from 100 years ago and tell them about how the food we eat today is produced. They wouldn't touch it. We may feel funny about eating this, but the next generation wouldn't.

Interesting.

How about tell people to stop eating so much meat? Meat is okay but we obviously eat too much of it as Americans. The cost to produce a lb of meat is far greater than growing crops. Also, you then have the problem with factory farms such as disease, pollution run off, etc...  Cows aren't supposed to stand in their own shit all day long eating corn and chicken shit.  So basically when you eat a steak you are eating chicken shit if you got it from a factory farm.  Free range is obviously the more natural and better for everyone way to go.

But where is the fun in that? Shooting a cow with a big gun is part of the fun of eating a Hamburger!

Oh! I remember that. It looked so normal...

Growing meat in a lab could lower meat costs, meet the high demand for meat, lower resource requirements to produce meat, stop the pollution caused by rearing livestock and end intensive livestock farming.

This idea could solve all the problems you have with meat production.

If it looks like a burger and tastes like a burger, then it's a burger. I'd eat it.

The stem cell one, not the shit burger.

Lol. Got a good laugh out of this.