"Fifty years hence," said winston churchill in 1931, "we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing." How? "By growing these parts separately under a suitable medium." O.K., so Churchill was a politician, not a scientist: 82 years later, our Whoppers, Big Macs and Double Downs are still sourced from livestock. But now, thanks to advances in cell cultivation, researchers are closer than ever to growing real, edible meat in labs. And those Frankenburgers (and Franken-nuggets) might just help save the planet.
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