(ON) The Globe and Mail – Do you care if your sausage never had a chance to squeal? It’s a question green-minded grocery shoppers may one day be faced with if a group of researchers in the Netherlands figures out how to exercise the test-tube-grown pork they’ve got lazing around in petri dishes so the meat will toughen up — and taste — as though it had been raised on a farm.
Part of a government-funded group called the In Vitro Meat Consortium, the Dutch scientists are attempting to produce meat while doing away with the farm altogether — a bold departure from the general run of research into ways to stem the harmful atmospheric emissions caused by industrial livestock farming. More