Clean meat from self reproducing cells used for making lab         

 grown chicken strips

A food-technology startup based in the Bay Area announced this week that it had produced the world's first chicken strips grown from animal cells in a lab—no actual chickens required.Memphis Meats dished up deep-fried samples of the its poultry Tuesday in San Francisco, the Wall Street Journal reported, and those who sampled it said that while it seemed spongier than a whole chicken breast, it basically tasted like the real thing. The company also touted a piece of lab-grown duck served with orange sauce.

But don't expect to see high-tech chicken tenders hit your grocery store soon: The company estimates it costs under $9,000 to make one pound of the meat, the Journal reported. Memphis Meats expects price should come down in the next several years and let them offer their products publicly in 2021, according to Business Insider.  

With the average U.S. citizen consuming over 90 lbs. of chicken last year alone, the demand for a more effective means of feeding all of those mouths has never been greater. About 61 billion chickens are being raised around the world for their meat, and the numbers continue to skyrocket.

The development of animal-less meat products is also good news for organizations like PETA, whose president Ingrid Newkirk said that they are “very much in favor of anything that reduces or eliminates the slaughterhouse.” PETA has contributed funds to early research in what many hope will be a way to reduce or eliminate the mistreatment of livestock.

While Memphis Meats believes they will have a commercially viable product by 2021, it currently costs about $9,000 to produce a single pound of chicken, versus the roughly $3 per pound average on the real deal. And while that might seem like a long way off, it cost the company more than twice that to produce a single meatball a year ago. 

Our guess is that they've probably been doing this and this is how they spring it on us

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