Meat lovers and animal rights activists can finally rejoice together (we think) – because now there is a steak without slaughter that you can eat straight from the plate … a Petri dish.
A group of Israeli scientists and a group of restaurants have revealed what they say is the first piece of meat cooked in a laboratory, using a crazy 3D printer !!! It’s not the technology you see on Pinterest, however … that’s bioprint, the same idea – but with cells.
It’s kind of complicated to explain, but basically they take the “natural building blocks of meat” – tissue from a cow – incubate them and then build them under a microscope. Eventually, you get what you see here … a sirloin steak, free from genetic engineering or Frankenstein DNA.
The scientific breakthrough comes 2 years after biomedical engineers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (the same guys who made this rib eye) grew a thin-cut steak, without bioprinting.
Now that they have learned the technique, they say they are making other cuts.
Needless to say, it could revolutionize the meat production industry if it were widely adopted. So many outstanding questions, but the first and most important being … is this good ???
AF folks insist that it’s super hot … but we’ll believe it when we try it out 😝