Pure Meat Grows in the Netherlands - Financial Times
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Bioengineers in the Netherlands are now growing meat without animals
Financial Times (April 20, 2012): Environmental Science & Technology journal (July 2011) article “found that lab meat can produce up to 96% lower greenhouse gas emissions than its conventional equivalent. Scientists at the universities of Oxford and Amsterdam found it would also take between 7 per cent and 45 per cent less energy to produce than the same volume of pork, sheep or beef, as well as requiring 99% less land use." The article goes on to say that it costs the US $50 billion per year in food-borne illness , much related from meat from animals.
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