How would you like your steak? Rare? Medium? Grown in a lab? No, really. That could be a real option for your meat in the not too distant future.
"Lab-grown meat won’t make many top-10 lists
as a natural food, but the New Harvest Web site
calls it 'less unnatural than raising farm animals
in intensive confinement systems, injecting them
with synthetic hormones, and feeding them artificial
diets made up of antibiotics and animal wastes.' Known
as in vitro or cultured meat, the end product, grown from
stem cells, could alleviate environmental and health concerns
associated with most animal protein (not to mention moral
qualms about eating animals), making it the cut of choice."
While it is an interesting concept, if I feel like a burger I'll stick to the real deal (moral qualms and all) and avoid the laboratory...