Dutch scientists have taken the first steps to creating lab-grown meat – Forge Press asks would you eat a ‘Bunsen Burger’?
Imagine the choice, in the style of an M&S advert if you wish. A rare cut of succulent British grown beef from a farm in Cornwall, or alternatively, you could buy laboratory matured ‘Petri Dish special’ calf serum/horse foetus mash up burger from an industrial park in the Netherlands.
I know which one sounds more appealing to me.
Christmas: all about spending time with your family, giving and receiving presents and of course, food, lots of food. Not just any food either, we are talking high-fat, high-sugar, and high-calorie food. From the enormous turkey being heavily stuffed, to the potatoes roasted in fat – even fruit is usually covered in chocolate.
After May’s local elections, the Labour Party seem to have a foothold over the British electorate once again, but as Harrison Worrell argues, there is still a long way to go.