Created artificial meat in the laboratory using animal cells

In an attempt to avoid - or at least diminish - industrial exploitation of animals for meat and other food, many people adopt a vegetarian or even vegan diet. While some live well by eating only plant-based food, some suffer from being unable to taste that rare juicy picanha and try their best to replace the meat of the animals in their food.

In addition to no animals being bred inhumanly and killed to feed us, the meat produced is free of medicines and hormones and is theoretically identical to that taken from real animals.

For these people, this news may be the best of recent times: scientists have figured out how to artificially raise meat in the laboratory without mistreating any animal. It works almost like a cloning system, where cells are taken from animals that are commonly consumed by humans - such as cows, chickens, pigs, etc. - and replicated in controlled environments until they become sizable chunks of meat.

What are the advantages?

In addition to no animals being bred inhumanly and killed to feed us, the meat produced is free of medicines and hormones and is theoretically identical to that taken from real animals, since the replica comes directly from the cells of real animals. To this day, alternatives to artificially raising meat used plant cells and tasted quite similar to real meat, but not the same, and were completely created from plants.

If this already exists, why do we still consume animals that are exploited by the large food industry? The process for making artificial meat is still absurdly expensive, as is any type of newly developed technology. However, knowing that this is possible and that in the medium term we will be able to stop killing animals to do that naughty barbecue is good news for the beginning of 2018.

Scientists create artificial meat in laboratory using animal cells via TecMundo