Lab meat down on the farm: It’s going to happen, say advocates

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Lab meat down on the farm: It’s going to happen, say advocates

Science fiction down on the farm? What about this? Take some biopsies from live meat animals, put the cells, suspended in nutrients, in large bioreactors, and wait for them to grow into a larger mass that can be processed into products such as burgers and sausages. When asked for his opinion about this way of producing meat, a long-time beef raiser said, “What will they think of next?”  Opponents of this new technology — and there are many — des…