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In-Vitro Cookbook

In-Vitro Meat

Earlier this year, Dutch scientists grew hamburger from the muscle tissue of a cow and invited journalists into the lab for a taste test. Reviews were mixed but it's early days for lab-grown meat. If perfected, it could end the suffering of farm animals and help fight world hunger.

Beyond the yuck factor, cost and time are also major stumbling blocks for the technology.

The test tube burger took two years and $325,000 to create.

Undeterred, the Next Nature Foundation, posted the In Vitro Meat Cookbook on the fund raising site Indiegogo. Among the questions the cookbook hopes to answer, "Is lab-grown meat kosher?"

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