{"id":352340,"date":"2018-03-15T23:51:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T22:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/could-lab-grown-clean-meat-be-a-prelude-to-soylent-green\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T23:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T22:51:03","slug":"could-lab-grown-clean-meat-be-a-prelude-to-soylent-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/could-lab-grown-clean-meat-be-a-prelude-to-soylent-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Lab-Grown &#8216;Clean&#8217; Meat Be a Prelude to Soylent Green?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Cultured tissue, harvested without killing any animals, could allow scientists to grow meals\u2019 worth of products with just a handful of starter cells.<\/p>\n<p>Meat grown in a laboratory could be on restaurant menus by the end of the year, one manufacturer has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>In vitro animal products, sometimes referred to as \u201cclean meat\u201d, are made from stem cells harvested via biopsy from living livestock, which are then grown in a lab over a number of weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Lab-grown &#8216;clean&#8217; meat could be on sale by end of 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n3Nwl01GQv\">https:\/\/t.co\/n3Nwl01GQv<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 The Independent (@Independent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Independent\/status\/969962713446277120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some environmentalists believe the process could be the key to reducing global warming, with one study predicting it could lower harmful greenhouse emissions by 96 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>And the first products could be available for human consumption within months, according to Josh Tetrick, CEO of clean meat manufacturer JUST.<\/p>\n<p>Chicken nuggets, sausage and foie gras created using the technique could be served in restaurants in the US and Asia &#8220;before the end of 2018&#8221;, he told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>But public perception and a reluctance to diverge from traditional farmed meat still represent considerable hurdles for the clean meat industry to overcome, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGnarly problems, communication issues, regulatory issues,\u201d would have to be solved before products went to market, he said in a separate interview with The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>His stance is shared by Mosa Meat, whose lab based at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/could-lab-grown-clean-meat-be-a-prelude-to-soylent-green\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultured tissue, harvested without killing any animals, could allow scientists to grow meals\u2019 worth of products with just a handful of starter cells. Meat grown in a laboratory could be on restaurant menus by the end of the year, one manufacturer has claimed. In vitro animal products, sometimes referred to as \u201cclean meat\u201d, are made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}