Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened?
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/nov/05/lab-grown-meat-save-the-world-food-revolution-climate-crisis-food-system
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We were promised a panacea for the climate crisis and a way to save our food system. So why is nobody firing up the chicken vats? I went to find out On 5 August 2013, a man and a woman ate a burger. Not just any burger: a world-historic burger, made from cattle cells grown in a laboratory by Mark Post , a professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The burger had taken two years to produce and cost €250,000 (about £210,000 at the time), money furnished by the Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Now it was being tasted in public for the first time at Riverside Studios in London, at an event attended by 200 members of the press and livestreamed to thousands. To make this particular burger, Post had extracted stem cells from the shoulder muscle of a living cow, t…
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