Synthetic egg mayo on your human burger? The future of food
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By Vicky Allan
The future of food, some people think, belongs to laboratories and factories, not farms. In giant vats, muscle and fat cells will be cultured then made into so-called ‘clean meat’, without, if the technology progresses, a single animal having to die. Wine – with an almost biblical flourish – will be produced not from grapes, but from, water, ethanol, sugar and other substances. Eggs will be made from plants.
This may all sound like sci-fi, but in fact the basic technology is al...
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