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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Test Tube Meat: TIME Explains [Watch (HLS stream): Test Tube Meat: TIME Explains](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/9LBrhaQP.m3u8) (2:18)  _Published 2013-03-13. Meat grown in labs without the use of animals or factory farming could become a reality in the future. TIME writer Bryan Walsh explains._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:31 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Lab-Grown Chicken Can Now Be Sold in the U.S.](/video/fGk6ReWT/) ### Lab-Grown Chicken Can Now Be Sold in the U.S. [10 Ways Get Protein Without Eating Meat](/video/AP7pKmI8/) ### 10 Ways Get Protein Without Eating Meat [Yulin's Dog Meat Festival](/video/dRMmXf0P/) ### Yulin's Dog Meat Festival --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] There's a lot of interesting organic sustainable meat production that's good for the planet and good for you. But here's one greener way to get your burger that you may not have heard of. Envitro meat. Here's what you need to know. [ MUSIC ] The world uses billions of animals for meat every years. And, the act of actually raising them has a huge impact on the environment. When you have factory farms as we do in the United States, they produce vast amounts of, of actual manure and waste that can create serious air pollution, water pollution. It can create greenhouse gases that can effect climate change. And the demand for meat is only expected to continue to increase. On estimate suggests that we could need 60 percent more meat by 2050 for the entire world. [ MUSIC ] So scientists have actually been look at a way, instead of growing a whole animal, the way you would in a farm, actually growing meat, meat tissue in labs. Or, what's known as invitro meat. The idea basically would be that you would take some stem cells from a pig, from a chicken, from a, from a cow, culture it in a, in a lab and then grow it using a growth serum that contains proteins, amino acids. Sort of grow it as a, as a stage or add in some other ingredients. Some fat, and actually create just, just the meat itself. [ MUSIC ] For vegetarians, this is, this could be a, a, a, a big change , because you don't have the issue of, of raising and then killing animals. In fact PETA, the people, people for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has actually put forward a $ 1 million prize, but for scientists that's gonna be able to produce a commercial lab grown burger. We have scientists who are getting very close in the lab to creating pilot projects. There's a scientist in the Netherlands named Mark Post who's probably farthest along. Who's really only a few months away from creating what would be really, the first lab grown burger. Problem is that burger's gonna cost right now hundreds of thousands because it's still very much in the pilot scale. So, if we don't wanna change our lifestyle, if we don't wanna change our consumption habits. We're probably gonna have to augment the, the meat we grow now with something that could be grown in a, in a lab. And the, the result could be good for the planet, good for the animals themselves, and potentially good tasting provided those scientists can actually figure out how to make a, a lab grown burger taste like a regular one. [ MUSIC ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Test Tube Meat: TIME Explains","description":"Meat grown in labs without the use of animals or factory farming could become a reality in the future. 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