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  • The Future of Beef in our Diet - About Earth and Leaf
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    The Future of Beef in our Diet

    Tom Cheesewright, Sliced Bread, Radio 4 Beef in our Diet – A Radio Programme Prompt So ….  last Thursday I caught the second half of a programme on Radio 4 at lunchtime.  It was worth a listen.  Ive posted before about growing food in the lab, it has a future.  At the end of the prog a well known presenter stated that in fifty years time he believes we will not be farming beef cattle at scale. Whilst this is not fact, rather it is an informed opinion based on sound science, I tend to agree. Ninety percent of human diet worldwide comes from just 15 crops.  That includes just…

  • Grown in the Lab
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    Food Grown in the Lab: Shocking or Revolutionary

    Fantastic, we can now have meat, sugar and butter grown in the lab. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ern1zjkvyo Mushrooms are the Future of Our Diet and of our Worldinternal link Meat, sugar and butter grown in the lab How efficient is it to grow meat? Lets have a look. Who is doing it? IFT? We talked to Ivy Farm Technologies in Oxford who are ready to go with lab-grown steaks, made from cells taken from Wagyu and Aberdeen Angus cows. Can you have a fatty steak or streaky bacon? It takes two years at least to grow most steaks.