How to avoid lab-grown meat

Lab-grown meat, which can also be referred to as cultivated or cultured meat, is real meat that's grown directly from animal cells.

According to Eric Schuzle, the vice-president of product and regulation at UPSIDE Foods, these products are “real meat, made without the need to raise and slaughter animals.”

Cultivated meat may sound like a thing of the future, but it’s closer to reaching supermarket shelves than you might think.

In fact, the first piece of lab-grown meat hit the world stage in 2013 when a team at the University of Maastricht presented the first hamburger produced by bovine stem cells. At the time, this original burger cost more than $300,000 to create.

But researchers found that two years later, they were able to reduce the cost to $11.36.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the world population will surpass 9.1 billion by 2050, at which point agricultural systems will not be able to supply enough food to feed everyone.

But could lab-grown meat help fill

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