Since the dawn of time, man has endeavored to move food from the farm to the table. Over the course of the next three years, one Dutch company will try to move its meat product from the laboratory to your table. Mosa Meat produced a lab-grown beef burger five years ago. The company announced Tuesday it has received the funding to make and sell artificially grown meat to restaurants as early as 2021, according to The Associated Press.
The artificial meat will be ground beef for burgers with the typical hamburger patty costing around $1. Mosa Meat says its biggest challenge is making meat that looks, feels and tastes like the real thing. In the process, the company uses a small sample of cells taken from a live animal. The cells are fed nutrients and are engineered to grow into strands of muscle tissue. The company claims it can make up to the equivalent of 80,000 quarter pounders from a single sample. READ MORE
