Creating a $325,000 Synthetic Hamburger

It seems inevitable that as the Earth's population rises, meat can't always come from animals--one day it'll have to be produced in other ways. Well that time has arrived. Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a way to make it happen. But the question remains, will anyone eat it?

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First Vatburger is Ready to Eat
http://boingboing.net/2013/05/13/firs...
"After spending $250,000 worth of anonymously donated money, Mark Post from Maastricht University is ready to go public with his first vat-grown hamburger, which will be cooked and eaten at an event in London this week."


Building a $325,000 Burger
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/sci...
"As a gastronomic delicacy, the five-ounce hamburger that Mark Post has painstakingly created here surely will not turn any heads. But Dr. Post is hoping that it will change some minds"

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