Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Stephan: I think there is going to be a tremendous emphasis on this. It will become a growing trend, because industrial cattle operations are going to become unprofitable due to the rising cost of water as it becomes scarcer. It takes 1,300 gallons of water to produce an eight ounce hamburger. As affluence increases across the world -- not to be confused with wealth, only more than subsistence -- eating meat will increase. The demands for water and grain (and the water it requires) will become unsustainable.
VANCOUVER — The world’s first test-tube hamburger, created in a Dutch laboratory by growing muscle fibres from bovine stem cells, will be ready to grill in October, scientists believe.
‘I am planning to ask Heston Blumenthal [the celebrity chef] to cook it,