This company just grew meat in space for the first time

[Elderberry]

CNN Health by Jessie Yeung 10/8/2019

Company is growing steak without the cow

You may one day be able to eat burgers grown in space.

Aleph Farms, an Israeli food company that engineers beef steaks from cow cells, announced Monday it had successfully grown meat on the International Space Station for the first time -- a step forward in the company's goal to create slaughter-free eco-friendly meat.

Here's how it works: researchers take cells from a cow, give them nutrients, and put them in an environment mimicking the inside of a cow's body. The cells then multiply and grow connective muscle tissue -- eventually becoming a full-sized steak.

Aleph Farms collaborated with a Russian bioprinting company to successfully carry out the process on September 26. They assembled "a small-scale muscle tissue in a 3D bioprinter developed by 3D Bioprinting Solutions, under micro-gravity conditions," Aleph Farms said in a press release.

More: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/08/health/aleph-farms-space-meat-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

[sneakypete]

I wonder how long it will be before animals like cows,chickens,and pigs become extinct anywhere but in zoos?

[Joe Wooten]

I wonder how long it will be before animals like cows,chickens,and pigs become extinct anywhere but in zoos?

Decades, if not centuries. It will take a very long time for this to replace animals.