Could lab-grown meat soon be the solution to the world's food crisis? | Hannah Tuomisto

The Guardian Saturday 21st January, 2012

In the 1932 essay called "Fifty Years Hence", in which he offered his notions of how the world might look in 1982, Winston Churchill wrote: "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.''It might have taken longer than 50 years, but Churchill ...

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