Lab-Grown Hamburger Makes It to the Menu

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A research team that's growing beef in a petri dish instead of a cow is planning to serve the first ever lab-grown hamburger to a celebrity taster this fall.

The project is being spearheaded by Mark Post, a physiologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, and funded anonymously by an investor who thinks lab-grown meat could fundamentally alter the way food is manufactured.

The raising of livestock and production of meat have garnered attention in recent years for how much energy they use and pollution they create. But the new beef Post and his team hope to have an experimental chef grill up in October involves no pasturing, corn feed, methane or butchers.