Your first lab-grown burger is coming soon — and it’ll be 'blended'

A new breakthrough that could help finally get it onto our plates. "In terms of industry buzz, cultured meat has never been hotter. At the end of 2016 there were just four firms working on it, according to a report by nonprofit The Good Food Institute. By early 2020, that number had jumped to at least 55 startups around the world trying to re-create at least 15 different types of animal flesh, including pork, shrimp, chicken, duck, lamb, even foie gras." Niall Firth investigates the future of 'cultivated meat' in MIT Technology Review.