Sergey Brin, the billionaire founder of Google, has emerged as a backer of a project that has been dubbed the future of meat – laboratory-grown beef.
The first public tasting of meat produced in the Dutch project took place in London yesterday. In 10 to 20 years, project leaders believe such burgers will be on supermarket shelves.
Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University, who has been leading the research, said Mr Brin had put €700,000 into cultured beef research – with the aim of finding a sustainable alternative to growing meat through livestock farming – and was expecting to contribute more in the future.
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