Plastic flowers, artificial teeth, glass eyes, GM-food, A.I. and now, soon on the market….synthetic meat!
Grow your own steak: Paypal billionaire aims to make 3D printed meat a reality
- Co-founder awards up to £220,000 to Modern Meadow
- American company aims to make meat more environmentally friendly
Artificial, lab-grown steaks that taste and feel just like the real thing could be round the corner thanks to a generous grant from Paypal’s co-founder.
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel has backed an American startup to develop its 3D bioprinting technique and create a juicy steak.
To help Modern Meadow achieve their goal, Thiel has offered a grant of between £160,000 and £220,000 through the Thiel Foundation’s ‘Breakout Labs’.
Missouri-based Modern Meadow is pitching bioprinted meat as a more green way to satisfy a natural human craving for animal protein.
Paypal’s co-founder reveals his appetite for 3D printed meat with a six-figure donation to the cause
Co-founder Andras Forgacs has criticised the overall cost of the traditional agricultural practices used to farm animals.