authorssmith:
Um, sounds a little like something out of Seed Savers…
Originally posted on Eatocracy:
In a nondescript hotel ballroom last month at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, Andras Forgacs offered a rare glimpse at the sci-fi future of food.
Before an audience of tech-industry types, Forgacs produced a plate of small pink wafers — “steak chips,” he called them — and invited people up for a taste. But these were no ordinary snacks: Instead of being harvested from a steer, they had been grown in a laboratory from tiny samples of animal tissue.
One taster’s verdict on this Frankenmeat? Not bad, actually.
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Published on May 01, 2014 08:18