date:May 13, 2013
And while Dr. Post presses on with what the New York Times science blog calls The $325,00 Burger, the rest of the world must grapple with whether or not cloned or cultured hamburger food is really beef.
Dr. Post created his hamburger from tiny bits of beef muscle tissue grown in a laboratory. It takes tens of billions of cells to create a clone burger. The cell comes from slaughterhouse cow necks. Dr. Post develops cultured meat through stem cells. Post used about 20,000 thin strips of cultured