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Cara Augustenborg: Ignoring the reality of lab-grown meat could be a recipe for economic disaster
Ireland should follow the Netherlands, India and China by engaging proactively with this nascent market
In his 1931 essay Fifty Years Hence, Winston Churchill predicted that by the 1980s we would “escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium”.
Actually, it took nearly 70 years for Churchill’s prediction to approach reality. In 2000, scientists in New York developed a fish fillet from goldfish cells, and Nasa scientists began to grow meat from turkey ...