First test-tube hamburger ready this fall: researchers

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3. Good!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Lab-grown meat has huge potential. People are going to want to eat meat, no matter what the proven down sides in terms of animal cruelty, environmental degradation, disease (E coli, prions, etc), and its risks or benefits to their health.

The general principle of harm reduction requires this. Real muscle tissue grown apart from actual living animals and processed as food under laboratory-controlled, sanitary conditions would be a good thing.

As a long-time but not life-time vegetarian, I even find myself a little wistful about the possibility of a bit of London broil again someday....