Scientists Say New Hybrid Beef Rice Could Cost Just a Dollar per Pound

Scientists Say New Hybrid Beef Rice Could Cost Just a Dollar per Pound

Here’s a type of fusion food you don’t see every day: fluffy, steamed grains of rice, chock-full of beef cells. It sounds Frankenstein. But the hybrid plant-animal concoction didn’t require any genetic engineering—just a hefty dose of creativity. Devised by Korean scientists, the avant-garde grains are like lab-grown meat with a dose of carbohydrates. The hybrid rice includes grains grown with beef muscle cells and fatty tissue. Steamed together…