The "growing global demand" for meat is no longer anything to worry your carnivorous little head over, for, as always, science has come to the rescue. After the chosen 1% have settled into their underground global warming survival cities over in District 13, they're gonna eat like kings on lab-grown burgers that are currently in development in the Netherlands. Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University has announced that his team has grown small strips of muscle tissue from a cow's stem cells using a serum taken from a calf.
"In October we are going to provide a proof of concept showing out of stem cells we can make a product that looks, feels and hopefully tastes like meat," says Dr. Post, who explains that although the process could be done without slaughtering any cows, he thinks it's still best to kill some of them. "Eventually my vision is that you have a limited herd of donor animals in the world that you keep in stock and that you get your cells form there." Each "donor animal" would be able to produce "about a million times more meat through the lab-based technique than through the traditional method of butchery."
And this is only the beginning! The Telegraph reports that the research is being financed by an "anonymous and extremely wealthy benefactor" who is supposedly a household name with a reputation for "turning everything into gold." The test tube burger prototype costs 220,000 pounds, but for an extra 100K you can order it with edible test tube gold flakes.
