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November 30, 2009, 1:44 pm — Updated: 1:44 pm -->

Chicken Little cometh

Readers of classic science fiction may remember the “character” of Chicken Little in Pohl and Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants — a giant hunk of vat-grown meat from which slices were periodically removed to feed the masses.

Via Crooked Timber, it’s here:

SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish.

The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing to eat it.

So far the scientists have not tasted it, but they believe the breakthrough could lead to sausages and other processed products being made from laboratory meat in as little as five years’ time.

Yum.

via krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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