Grow your own meat.

chippy

Somehow I cant see this taking off, although I can see the appeal.

Mark Post has been given €300,000 to make a hamburger, in one year. Easy money, you might think, but try doing that without using meat that has come from an animal.

Professor Post is one of the few people on the planet who can. As head of the department of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, he is in the vanguard of a new wave of research to create a way of producing meat that cuts out the need for animal husbandry altogether.

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Instead of getting meat from animals raised in pastures, he wants to grow steaks in lab conditions, directly from muscle stem cells. If successful, the technology will transform the way we produce food. "We want to turn meat production from a farming process to a factory process," he explained.

Although I can see the advantages, such as no antibiotics or growth hormones will be used, and grown in a lab environment the meat should be sterile so no risk of the normal pathogens. I cant see it having the same taste as real meat.

There is quite a long article about it here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15402552

Slartibartfast

We'll probably have to go this route sooner or later. There simply isn't going to be enough land for efficient farming soon.

On a related note, check out this feces burger.