'MEAT' FrankenBurger. First ‘test-tube’ hamburger to be produced this year .

First ‘test-tube’ hamburger to be produced this year. (RS).The world’s first “test-tube” meat, a hamburger made from a cow’s stem cells, will be produced this fall, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference on Sunday.
Post’s aim is to invent an efficient way to produce skeletal muscle tissue in a laboratory that exactly mimics meat, and eventually replace the entire meat-animal industry.
The ingredients for his first burger are “still in a laboratory phase,” he said, but by fall “we have committed ourselves to make a couple of thousand of small tissues, and then assemble them into a hamburger.”
Post, chair of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said his project is funded with 250,000 euros from an anonymous private investor motivated by “care for the environment, food for the world, and interest in life-transforming technologies.”
Post spoke at a symposium titled “The Next Agricultural Revolution” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver.Speakers said they aim to develop such “meat” products for mass consumption to reduce the environmental and health costs of conventional food production.In 2010 a report by the United Nations Environment Program called for a global vegetarian diet.The global demand for meat is expected to rise by 60 percent by 2050, said American scientist Nicholas Genovese, who organized the symposium.Hmmmm....."to reduce the environmental and health costs of conventional food production"How about human health?Read the full story here.