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It should be pointed out here that increasing food production (i.e. through lab-grown meat) will not help world hunger. Increasing meat-production efficiency may help the environment, but not the poor. There is already more than enough food in the world to feed everybody. The problem with hunger stems from politics, economics, etc., not food supply. I would guess that the biggest benefactor to this new kind of production would be the producers. Think about the cost savings of not having to have all that farmland and pesky transportation costs. This will certainly be a profitable technology.
And, yeah, lab-grown meat does seem a bit gross. I'd sooner go vegan to save the planet.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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