Is Lab-Grown Meat Really Worth It?

Topic: Lab-grown meat products

Title: Is lab grown meat really worth it?

Speaker: Logan Sharon

Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of lab grown meat from stem cells

Thesis statement: Creating lab grown meat is not easily done, if lab grown meat becomes accessible to the public it may have several different impacts on the environment as well as the consumer; although it is said to be much different from your regular patty.

Introduction

With today’s technologies it seems that almost anything can be possible but I never would have expected to see meat grown out of a labs test tube. Creating lab grown meat is not easily done, if lab grown meat becomes accessible to the public it may have several different impacts on the environment as well as the consumer; although this meat is said to be much different from your regular patty. First the meat is grown from cow muscle tissues. Next the demands for meat are continuing to grow and finally a lab grown patty is said to be different from a regular patty in many ways. The process of growing meat is not easily done.

Body

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Lab grown meat, also known as in vitro meat is meat grown from a cows muscle tissues in a lab and formed into a patty. This tedious process starts off by a technician growing tens of billions of cells that are needed to make the hamburger. This is done by extracting the muscle tissues removed from cow necks in a slaughter house. Professor Post says that the meats are “cultured with nutrients and growth-promoting chemicals to help them develop and multiply” (BBC). Creating this meat does not come cheap as the burgers are produced for around the cost of 250,000 euros or about 325,000 dollars. Although creating this meat does not come cheap the proceeds come from anonymous donations as well as a $330,000 donation from googles co-founder Sergey Brin according to BBC News. Although it isn’t cheap to grow meat in a lab if it becomes available to the public we could greatly reduce our environmental