Synthetic Steak Is Coming: How About Burgers with Everything Except the Animals?

A lot of people focus on the creepy factor, but I'd argue that this is vegan and a lot of people have health needs that aren't easily met without eating meat. Plus the article emphasizes the eco-friendly ramifications of this. Sounds like lab meat won't consume the massive quantities of water and produce the insane amount of methane that growing cattle does.

> Farms generate a hefty carbon footprint. Raising animals in California emits 8 percent of the state's total greenhouse gases. That's more than all the state's oil refineries combined.

Ummm...

This is readily explainable by California having a lot of cattle ranches (it's an agricultural powerhouse in numerous categories, cattle ranching being among them) and relatively few oil refineries. Curious how this would compare to, say, Texas (which has an abundance of both, last I checked).

Extremely excited about this. Becoming vegetarian meant missing chicken wings (I've found awesome alternatives), burgers (Beyond Meat!), Mexican food (several vegan options in my town now) and finally steak. Steak is the last meat-based food I cannot stop craving after almost ten years...