Meat made the tube, the solution to hunger

Meat made the tube, the solution to hunger. You eat a hamburger from stem cells?

Şiinţă people say that one year we have the first samples of meat produced in the tube. Industrial production of such meat grown from stem cells could pave the way for the consumption of meat without having to slaughter.

Dutch researchers say that in coming decades, world population will grow so quickly that there will be enough food for all. Therefore, they say, beef, lamb or chicken "raised" in the laboratory could become something normal, informs Daily Mail.

Scientists have taken stem cells from 10,000 cattle, which were then allowed to multiply more than a billion times to produce similar muscle tissue of beef.

Meat production process is called "in vitro".

Mark Post, professor of psychology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said he sees no other way to ensure food needs in the coming decades. "In vitro meat will be the only option left," he said.

"We try to show the world that can be a product of this and we need a brave person to be willing to taste the first of the meat. If anyone does not provide, I think I could give myself," said Mark Post.

Professor Post said the magazine Scientific American that the first burger made from in vitro meat could be ready in 12 months.

In 2009, scientists from the university have "grown" pork the same way. They admitted that the product does not look very appetizing, with a gray color and a texture similar to calamari. And laboratories in New York were obtained using fish fillets taken from the muscle cells of the goldfish.

Although initial results are not very attractive in terms of food, the scientists are convinced that the world will be accustomed to such meat, he would not have a choice.

"When we eat a hamburger does not think that eating beef dead, and when people are already far to really know what they eat, will not be too hard to accept meat culture," said a colleague of Professor Mark Post.

Meat consumption is expected to double in 2050 due to population growth.

Holland is a world leader in the production of artificial meat, and the government has invested over a half million euros in research. Scientists involved in the project believe that the hamburger obtained tube is just the first step in the food revolution that could solve food shortages.

Researchers at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, have calculated that ten initial stem cells could produce 50,000 tons of meat in two months.

A study at Oxford University say that this process consumes 35-60% less energy, 98% less land and produce 80-95% less greenhouse gases than traditional farms.