No Animals Harmed: Would You Eat Steaks and Schnitzel Grown in a Petri Dish

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No Animals Harmed: Would You Eat Steaks and Schnitzel Grown in a Petri Dish

The vision sounds promising: Meat can be consumed without animals having to die. Factory farming and meat scandals have caused meat consumption of Germans to gradually decrease. Instead, consumption of vegetarian sausages and soybean steaks is increasing. Animal muscular tissue grown in the laboratory promises quite real meat consumption without a guilty conscience. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) studied whether the so-called in-vitro meat really is an alternative.

Still, production of in-vitro meat is complex and possible in small amounts only. “In future, however, in-vitro meat might help solve problems caused by meat consumption in view of growing global population, climate change, and animal protection,” Inge Böhm of KIT’s Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) says. “When culturing animal muscle stem cells, it might no longer be necessary to grow animals with a high resource expenditure and to kill them afterwards,” the humanities scholar adds.

KIT researchers studied whether steaks and schnitzels from the petri dish may soon revolutionize our meat production.

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