Beef grown from stem cells to have tasting event

07/17/2013 - 00:00

Ogilvy Public Relations has announced that a media event will take place on August 5th in London to publicize the results of efforts by Mark Post, a researcher at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands—he has been trying to grow palatable beef in a lab. An unknown person will be invited to taste the beef sample that has been grown from stem cells, in front of an invitation-only crowd of guests.

Growing meat from stem cells would allow for the production of meat without dedicating land to pasture animals. 

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