Synthetic meat a good development
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Taste-testers in London recently sampled the world's first laboratory-grown hamburger - and proclaimed it a virtual success. Dutch scientist Mark Post, who created the burger, predicts that in-vitro meat could be commercially available in 10 years. Althou
Switching to in-vitro meat will help stop animal suffering, reduce carbon emissions, conserve land and water and make food safer. Scientists say that laboratory-grown meat will require up to 60 per cent less energy than conventional meat.
And eating meat created from stem cells in a sterile laboratory seems much more appetising than eating the dismembered body parts of pigs, chickens, cows and other animals raised in filthy factory farms and slaughtered on killing floors covered with blood, vomit, urine and faeces. That is just plain sick.
But don’t worry if you don’t want to eat in-vitro meat, or animal flesh. Great-tasting mock meat and other vegan foods are readily available in local supermarkets, health-food stores and restaurants. Give them a try.
Jason Baker
Hong Kong
