Taste test: World's first test-tube burger revealed in London

The world's first test-tube burger has been revealed in London and tasted by two lucky volunteers who seemed to quite like it! Scientist-turned-chef Professor Mark Post produced the burger from 20,000 tiny strips of meat grown from cow stem cells. The lab-grown 5oz (142g) patty cost £250,000 to produce was fried in a little sunflower oil and butter by leading chef Richard McGeown.
Nutritional scientist Hanni Rutzler said the burger tasted "close to meat" but that it was "not that juicy". Report by Ashley Fudge.
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[@neonzaku4989]

I won't be surprised if this starts a zombie apocalypse

[@ISSRME]

I am vegan too. I do care about animals and the environment and my health. I also occasionally buy soy burger or beyond meat vegan chicken. The argument for a vegan is life, environment, sustainability, ethics and health. If this products is not a problem with either one great. Us vegans should be the first ones to support these businesses as we are looking for animal welfare and not self glory . I would be happy to take a bite of that. I am not against meat eater . I am against killing animals for food.

[@shimmerlostee5707]

no one cares

[@JamesLPlummer]

People don't understand how extremely important this is.

[@vorpal22]

The number of pirates have also dramatically decreased over the years. Thus, using your logic, it is reasonable to conclude that pirates are the way to prevent cancer.

[@AnyponyZen]

This is just beautiful... Like it or not, the lab grown food is the future, and it's beautiful to see we are actually advanced enough to get this far already.

[@nycpd75]

Thank the doctors who spend years of research and spend thousands of dollars to educate themselves to create such a invention.

[@vorpal22]

Unfortunately, a lot of foods are modified for pest resistance, size / weight, shelf life, and durability (for transport). Taste doesn't often enter into the equation as the other factors contribute far more highly to profitability. Tomatoes and many types of apples are examples of foods that have moved to be virtually flavourless over the last 10-20 years.

[@Goddamnitj]

Foods are often modified to make them taste better. Look to see if theres any evidence to suggest danger caused specifically by genetic modification rather than suggest scary things as a possibility.

[@TheMightyScientist]

proficiently* The Internet is not a place for knights in white armor.

[@Noisy_Cricket]

If we are actually able to produce meat in the lab, the price of meat will plummet (along with the price of the grains needed to feed the animals). Food will become much, much cheaper. Raising animals is also a huge contribution to rising carbon levels. This is a huge advancement.

[@EgadsNo]

Cultured meats have the potential too eliminate most of the waste (in food raised for cows, and their agricultural runoff) as well as deforestation. Done in a controlled environment- void of pollutants. Labs will care if their municipal water source is full of pharmaceuticals and toxins like fluoride- which is perfectly legal to use on organic food sources. They will not be downwind of a city, or a radioactive spewing natural gas/coal plant. Heavy metals from photovoltaic production...

[@ellDiavolo666]

Thank God for this invention!

[@myconsumerclub]

so whats the difference if a replicator makes it or if it is created in a lab

[@NINJAN3WBS]

An next on the menu ' hydration level 5 pizzas' just like back to the future....no one can hydrate a pizza like you ma!

[@shadman1911]

This technology could feed a group of 100 people in a expedition to Mars lasting years by taking a piece of meat inside the ship the size of stake. Permaculture was high technology in the 1970's now it's part of history.

[@carljohnson1256]

I like the idea it seems pretty cool

[@pugfugly1989]

Science can make this hold up to 10 times the value the same weight of horse or cow beef.

[@williamwzl]

I would eat it if it looked less wormy and artificial. The texture on that raw burger is vomit inducing.

[@whitter86]

Correlation ≠ Causation! =]

[@locoxguy]

i dont get it. how they do that?

[@ellDiavolo666]

ty old wise man

[@JohnKindereith]

How much longer until soylent green?

[@YodaOnDMT]

Damn right! As a vegan, mainly for ethical reasons I would consider eating this meat, but not for at least 20-odd years when it's clear there are no long term effects. Btw, the giving away of food that would otherwise be thrown out is down to Tony Blairs love affair with our Health & Safety Executive which spent 13 years teaching us Brits that we needed to be wrapped in cotton wool and stop thinking for ourselves. Sadly, it doesn't show any signs of reversing the mentality.

[@Brennan163]

I'm curious as to what you mean by 'long term effects'.

[@vorpal22]

To assume that this would make you sick is a pretty big leap of logic to make. Certainly, it's good to maintain skepticism about new production methods like this, but there's less reason - based on the constituents - to assume that it will make one sick than to assume that it is safe (although neither black-and-white assumption is really called for, at this point).

[@ceebiemarx]

"10 years time" lol well if we can reach the goal of $100,000 on crowdfunding then it will only be 4 years. I could definitely see out on shelves by next year.

[@badriyah43]

Dont bother trying to put an argument forward as he obviously loves Frankenstein food. Let him eat it that's the beauty of choice. :)

[@UnignorableAnomaly]

One more step forward :) Animal cruelty? What animal?

[@pugfugly1989]

Really? That's odd that you chose food as the sole environmental factor to have changed since those rates started climbing, even over the fact that mainly those rates are getting so high because of advancement in technology, giving us better means of detecting it, and the fact that we've identified roughly 200 different types.

[@15october91]

Great answer, to a stupid question!

[@martybfly131]

i wouldn't have any problems with eating this if it tasted exactly the same, or even better, doesn't bother me, so long as it don't give me the shits in the morning, im all good.

[@ochgottnochma]

batch production is cheaper than normal flesh.... ppl just need to buy it

[@bluemime86]

whats next, the worlds first test tube chicken, nugget, meat ball, bacon, fish, lobster, shrimp, pork, lamb chop, scrambled egg..... or why not be like the scientist guy in cloudy with a chance of meatballs, create all types of food in the lab using dna and stuff

[@georgeno5300]

Make mine a double! I think it's a great idea!

[@BVargas78]

I hope this works out.

[@bigmac2839]

10 years? The way the world is right now we will all be dead

[@vorpal22]

It poses difficult problems, though, because of the stupidity of the courts and liability issues. If food that is still largely edible is distributed to the homeless and someone gets food borne illness, lawsuits result against the distributor. It's absolutely absurd that it's safer for an organization to trash their food than to share it with those that need it, but it's the sad truth of today's society. Regardless, growing meat conventionally has many associated problems: this is a solution.

[@Goodrice97]

Yep, the world's money is going towards making artificial burgers.

[@mmmmmmm3246]

R.I.P. real food

[@vorpal22]

I would eat it as well. I don't see how protein strands are dangerous.

[@2Jeezuzisreal]

ill have a bio burger with flys please.

[@KizoneKaprow]

Make mine medium-scary.

[@Thefrrst]

Why does there have to be a line.

[@NewTechGuatemala]

lol dude Keep Calm

[@KizoneKaprow]

Mmmm...Petri-dish meat... It's what's for nightmares.

[@chochochochobi]

I want to see the actual meat before they enhance the color. It might be a pale pink color, or even worse, gray :(

[@iDreamFly3rZz]

Mettez + de beurre surtout

[@badriyah43]

Seems like your the only one who see's sense here. :)

[@shadman1911]

So is nylon!

[@joabhood]

i just have a question . . . . . . Why?????

[@badriyah43]

You can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink it. So many horrible people trolling on this youtube video and my comments being taken down. I treat people the way I would if I met them on the street. People seem to forget that when they're online. Especially guys. Thank you for your nice comment but that has been taken down as well. Funny that.

[@matbbm]

Good news. And who ever is against this should stop being so paranoid and ignorant about science.

[@MultiMikeYYYYY]

Ahhh shit ,let's all say by to good burgers

[@shoust]

strange that.. cancer rates have risen in the years..with the number of artificial man-made ingredients rising in the food supply....one has an immune system for a reason to fight off disease and keep it away.

[@NegativeNumbers427]

We use a lot of non natural stuff in our daily lives.

[@jonaruiz2414]

Nice n it looks good too;)I'm hungry now!

[@Scarlet1604]

Like Thalidomide, for example.....

[@WrongAsAShit]

thanks lol x

[@bencooper8540]

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

[@cwuzii]

Costs thousands and thousands to make, not gonna replace real meat just yet...

[@BigDangerousDan]

soylent green!!!

[@awetanoah342]

I'm saved! Vegan.

[@dsego84]

isn't curing diseases also playing god? where's the line?

[@Grandpa1945x]

I have an awesome name for it: Cancer Burger.

[@Zombine117]

if the people who taste test this turn into zombies i gonna be pissed...besides it ain't natchy...

[@LKPL-tj8cn]

vegans basic problem is D3 and B12 vitamins, not protein

[@bingramtube]

Cool

[@piraat6666]

In Japan they are creating shitburgers

[@dsego84]

huh?

[@NoManLP]

Whats the cost of mass reproduction? Equipment, Electricity, Storage and maintenance? Shelf life? Is it perfectly identical to agriculture meat? I would love to see the numbers, not just heresay on how this is beneficial. Can't find any statistics yet.

[@Cazy243]

It isn't perfectly identical. Right now it costs about $10 per burger.

[@NoManLP]

Cazy243 From what I've read it took 325,000 dollars to produce just one patty. Interesting how they dropped the price to 11$ But their saying it will still take 20-30 years to make it commercially available. Which means I have very little hopes in actually eating this burger or even feel safe that it has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce it, but now their reducing the cost of it. I would like to know what procedures they removed to make the cost drop from 300,000 to 10. www.fastcoexist.com/3044572/the-325000-lab-grown-hamburger-now-costs-less-than-12

[@Cazy243]

+Jman LPGuy That's a good question, but I thought it mainly had to do with improving the technique and making them in larger quantities. But I'm not sure though.

[@andreyyurchenko8802]

greeting it

[@dafttool]

Red Meat, what's rotting in your colon right now.

[@Jfreek5050]

Killing an animal for food is not animal cruelty. If it is, its justified, just like executing a criminal is.

[@Cazy243]

I disagree with your statement that executing criminals is right. In my opinion, no one has the right to take a life, not even the government.

[@Jfreek5050]

+Cazy243 i suppose its a very touchy topic and incredibly subjective matter. i for one think that humans, beingvsapient

[@Jfreek5050]

+Jfreek5050 sorry my phone is acting up. i think that humans, being sapient, are far more valuable than the lives of lesser minded creatures. should we kill off animals to extinction? No. There is no point to that. But i would rather a species go extinct than a human be killed. I dont think humans are the best creatures around , but i do believe that sapience is a trait that makes us superior to all others we know of.

[@1948DESMOND]

AS long as the meat is boneless, it would be nice. or maybe they could make plastic bones to insert into the meat ... plastic that does NOT melt in the frying pan or the oven!!

[@JackalGYT]

+Dassoon Fitz Why would they put plastic into meat?

[@1948DESMOND]

+Jackal ... : Sorry, jack, i meant to say put plastic into it so that it could be used for dogs!! edible plastic bones for your pet dog. but would the dog notice the difference between an edible plastic bone and an ordinary animal bone? probably!! but if it is hungry, it will eat the plastic bone!! by the way, i do not mean that plastic stuff you get food wrapped in. i mean, something like plastic that is edible but hard and boney. is there such a product? if you are hungry, jacko, you will eat it , too !!

[@badpanda84]

@ 01:11 did he say mouse meat????

[@czg2012]

no thanks. i'd rather feast on goat meat, horse meat.

[@vorpal22]

Seeking people solely on the basis of their agreement with you is nothing short of mental masturbation. Why not listen to what people with dissenting opinions have to say and see if you can't learn anything? I have some incredibly strong opinions, but I frequently engage in online debate / argument, because even at the most hostile of times, I am surprised by what I can learn from someone who disagrees with me.

[@Brennan163]

Ah, fair enough, I'd imagine there would be extensive testing before this kind of meat would be released to the public though. In fact I doubt this kind of meat will even see the general public for AT LEAST 20 years, due to the current cost (not to mention the fundamentalist idiots who will undoubtedly campaign against it).

[@15october91]

Man created God!

[@nycpd75]

No, God is an idea followed by the masses. A obsession with death. This is Science.

[@furrydouble]

No thanks, I choose life.

[@WrongAsAShit]

i would eat it :)

[@cweb1988]

Yes people should eat a little less meat probably...but here's the kicker....is it nutritious? If it's actually as nutritious as regular meat then great....but if it's just like GMO garbage that encompasses most of our food supply and is not nutritious....the screw it! There needs to be WAY more research into nutrition.

[@ellDiavolo666]

isnt that what God is?

[@Fanimik]

Great 👍🏻 ideas 💡 fantastic fabulous Burger 🍔 save animal ,save environment and energy batter for earth 🌏 healthy for you.great job

[@michaelpiaf1882]

I bet you are religious.

[@TheSparkala]

And God created Man. Circular, huh.

[@saah2010ful]

ewww

[@benshivd]

lol so many triggered vagitarians

[@cwBGee]

DISGUSTING. ITS NOT NATURAL!!

[@badriyah43]

Frankenstein food. What a waste of money! What nutritional value does this have. Zero.

[@shadman1911]

Once again your arrogance shines through, sorry but English is a second language to me, still I bet is better then your Portuguese. You clearly don't understand the scientific method. They don't have to provide anything yet. The methodology implemented was per-review and is absolutely safe.