How to print meat and leather: Andras Forgacs at TEDGlobal 2013 [TED]
Andras Forgacs of Modern Meadows shows a batch of cultured leather. He points out that it even has some distinct advantages over leather — there’s no hair to remove, no scars to be contended with....
View ArticleWhen Will We Eat Hamburgers Grown in Test Tubes? [The Atlantic]
A couple people ate some hamburger in London yesterday. Not generally noteworthy, except that the burger cost $330,000 to produce and the meat was grown in a lab, not a cow. It was flavored with salt,...
View ArticleLab-grown meat: Too revolutionary for industry backing? [Food Navigator]
Wider interest and backing from the food industry could help boost developments in lab grown meat technology, but for now the idea may be ‘too revolutionary’ for manufacturers to gamble on, said...
View ArticleTED Talk by Andras Forgacs on Biofabricating Meat and Leather [TED Talk]
By 2050, it will take 100 billion land animals to provide the world’s population with meat, dairy, eggs and leather goods. Maintaining this herd will take a huge, potentially unsustainable toll on the...
View ArticleThe Bill Gates-backed company that’s reinventing meat [Fortune]
Most people consume protein in what vegetarians call “the secondhand form,” that is, after it has been digested and converted into meat by chickens, cows, and pigs. This is inefficient, as Winston...
View ArticleThe Transparency Challenge, Ethan Brown [Beyond Meat]
In the news, we all heard about the chicken salmonella outbreak that hospitalized a lot of people across the country. Salmonella is not unique to the meat industry but it sure seems to like hanging...
View ArticleCan Artificial Meat Save The World? [Popular Science]
Traditional chicken, beef, and pork production devours resources and creates waste. Meat-free meat might be the solution. The post Can Artificial Meat Save The World? [Popular Science] appeared...
View ArticleSubstitute-meat makers’ art imitates life [LA Times Business]
Ethan Brown held up one of his ready-to-eat vegetarianchicken strips and peeled off stringy strands that mimicked the moist meat of the real thing.”That’s the beauty. That’s absolutely everything,”...
View ArticleDoes fake meat have legs? The business case for alt-proteins [Business Green]
These options promise to be more sustainable than animal-based meats. Is the market ready for cricket flour and stem cell burgers? Recently, two American chefs were asked to cook a meal of steak and...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s scheme to trick carnivores into eating fake meat [Salon]
Few would argue that the meat industry is contributing to some major health and environmental problems. Fewer still, however, are willing to give up on meat. One way to subvert the problem of...
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