Mark Post: Meet the New Meat
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Mark Post
One of the speakers is Mark Post. Professor of vascular Physiology at Maastricht University, Chairman of the Dutch Society of Physiology and acting scientific director of Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM). Recently Mark began researching ways of creating in vitro meat, and you can hear him talk below on why:
‘A vegetarian in a hummer is much less damaging for the environment than a meat-eater on a bicycle’.
Following Ellie Petschek,’s article Grass Fed or Lab-Grow, How do you like your Meat? she got the opportunity to speak with Mark himself in this interview: Mark Post on Lab-Grown Meat
Meat Grown in a Lab
Today’s techniques for rearing livestock are unsustainable, particularly if global meat consumption doubles – as it’s predicted to do – by 2050. Artificial meat will be the answer. Using stem cell technology to grow tissue in labs, we will be able to control variables and make the process much more efficient, environmentally friendly and healthy. It won’t be cheap to begin with though. The first ‘lab-burger’ will cost £250,000. – If Conf
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