Cow-free Beef Proposed

Cow-free Beef Proposed: "Cow-free Beef Proposed
By Bjorn Carey
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 07 July 2005
01:54 pm ET


Scientists have proposed two new techniques for growing meat in a lab by a process that could one day make beef cows obsolete.

Don't toss out those beef steaks just yet, however. The technology is in its infant stages and it is not clear whether large-scale production will work. It's not known, for example, how to exercise an animal that doesn't exist, in order to give lab meat the full range of cow-like qualities."