Mind Set Daily

Topic covered on today's episode of Mind Set Daily "Snack of the Clones: Test Tube Meat" A revolutionary, new beef burger will soon be unveiled in London -- and then eaten. What is different about this burger is that it was grown in a laboratory at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The new $325,000 "test tube burger" is the result of years of research led by Dr. Mark Post at the university in the Netherlands, who hopes to show the world that so-called "in-vitro meat" could become a viable food source. In a laboratory Dr. Mark Post believes he's come up with the answer. He's created what's thought to be the world's first test tube burger : five ounces of pink "material" grown in an incubator from cells taken from a cow's neck. It's exactly the same as meat coming from the same cells, they have produced the same proteins. It tastes like meat. The only difference is that it's not grown within the animal, but outside. The technology could hugely reduce the amount of land, energy and water required by t