• Question: would you eat a burger that is stem cells that have been grown in a lab

    Asked by ludo4444 to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 14 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jennifer Paxton

      Jennifer Paxton answered on 14 Mar 2013:


      this is such a good question….I admit I haven’t thought of this much before!

      My initial reaction was to say no, but I don’t have any good reasons….. Thinking about it more, I think I probably would! Who knows, it might even taste better than the real thing?!

    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 16 Mar 2013:


      Yeah I totally would. Not a problem. The ironic thing is that at the moment, for growing cells generally animal proteins are used to feed the cells, so for vegetarians they’d have to work out different things to grow the cells in.

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