At a science conference, Mark Post said his work will be seen, felt, and expected good as the original meat. Not like the style of vegetarian mock meats made from gluten.As published by the Daily Mail, Monday, February 20, 2012, Post plans to unveil a special hamburger in October this year. He also hoped famous chef, Heston Blumenthal, are willing to cook the meat creation, although not yet contacted Post.
Post also claimed that the meat produced in the "ranch" would be more environmentally friendly, reducing animal suffering, and help feed the world's poorest countries.
However, unfortunately, the price is still far from cheap. Whereas, the required funding of £ 220 000 to produce burger samples. However, Post is optimistic, the public is more interested in eating meat creations even though the price is equivalent to the real meat.
How can meat reared in the laboratory?
The professors of the Maastricht University spent at least six years to turn stem cells, "stem cells" with the power to transform themselves into cell types other. Included into the meat.
His first effort was "rat burger". Then the pig, then produce a layer of chewy texture of squid and scallops, before it is anchored to the ground beef.
Four-step technique is used to convert stem cells or stem cells from animal meat into burger.
The first step, stem cells taken from cow muscle. Then the cells were incubated in nutrient broth to multiply many times over and generate a network with a sticky consistency like raw terlur.Then, transforming them into thousands of thin layers of beef muscle cells.Process,by combining the 3000 cuts of meat produced in labratorium with 200 animal fat, also produced in laboratory, formed into a burger.
This process still takes a long, too expensive, but the Post and his colleagues are optimistic, will only take six weeks, the process of stem cells to the supermarket shelf.In a conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Post announced that it has to produce a layer of meat with a length of 3 cm, and 0 to 1.5 cm thick. The color of the meat was pink to yellow.
In addition to hamburgers,steaks on the results of laboratory animals can be used as sausage and processed meats. For a steak, maybe still a long way.
Besides cattle,the team also opened up opportunities Post synthesis version of the meat of other animals, including pandas and tigers.
Remarkable ability of stem cells to grow and multiply means, cells taken from a cow could produce burger a million times more than if the animal is slaughtered for meat.However, the fact that the source of the raw material of synthetic meat remains of slaughtered animals that fact. These findings will not make the vegetarians happy.