Scientists say meat grown in a laboratory may be cleaner, safer, and more resource efficient than traditional meat. Some animal activists say it's also more humane. But will we be able to get past the ickiness of it? Working behind the scenes, a new group of animal activists are staging an anti-factory-farming coup d'état. They're partnering with scientists to develop a process for growing meat entirely in a lab. And they're making some headway. We may even see lab-grown meat on the market in the next 10 years.

What is lab-meat?
Laboratory-grown meat, also known as in-vitro meat or "cultured-meat", is animal flesh that has never been a part of a complete, living animal. It is grown as cell cultures on a petri dish in a lab. It sounds sci-fi, but we are rapidly approaching a point where scientists may be able to mass produce it. The way I see it, it's a sideswipe attack on factory-farming. If lab-meat makes its way into supermarkets, it wouldn't reduce the number of people eating meat, but it will definitely mean fewer animals are suffering in factory farms and slaughterhouses.
Last April, 2008, Norway held an international symposium on in-vitro meat. To coincide with the conference, PETA annouced that they were pledging a million dollars to the "first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012." Here's what Ingrid Newkirk, PETA prez, had to say:

"The idea of getting the next Chicken McNugget out of a test tube is not new. For several years, scientists have worked to develop technologies to grow tissue cultures that could be consumed like meat without the expense of land or feed and the disease potential of real meat. An international symposium on the topic was held this month in Norway. The tissue, once grown, could be shaped and given texture with the kinds of additives and structural agents that are now used to give products like soy burgers a more meaty texture."
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