Meat lovers and animal rights activists can finally rejoice together (we think) – because there is now a slaughter-free steak that you can immediately eat from the dish … a petri dish.
A group of Israeli scientists and a restaurant group reveal what they believe is the first meat cooked in a laboratory, with a freakin ‘3D printer !!! However, this is not the technology you see on Pinterest … it is bioprint, the same idea – but with cells.
It’s quite complicated to explain, but basically they take out the “natural building blocks of meat” – tissue of a cow – and then build it out under a microscope. Eventually you get what you see here … a ribeye steak, without genetic engineering or Frankenstein DNA.
The scientific breakthrough comes two years after biomedical engineers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (the same guys who made these ribs) grew a thin steak, without bioprinting.
Now that they have used the technique, they say they can do other cuts.
It goes without saying that it can revolutionize the meat production industry if it is widely accepted. So many outstanding questions, but in the first place … is it good ???
The people at AF insist that it is very nice … but we will believe it if we try it 😝