Pictured: A Real Meatless Burger

Breaking news: You may have seen our last update on aritificial meat burgers, and it’s distinctly possible you’ve seen one of the daily updates on artificially-grown meat via social media or your favorite news site. It’s a story in development, and a new-age space race for food, as several companies are vying for a shot at successfully developing the first cost-effective, ‘perfect,’ meatless burger grown in a lab with the taste and texture of a regular burger, sans-animal suffering and ridiculous resource requirements. Looking at the numbers that are being thrown around:

It’s becoming clear that this isn’t likely a fad that will be going away any time soon.

Pat Brown’s start-up, Impossible Foods, is hard at work developing a burger that will be indistinguishable from the real thing as they target resilient carnivores as their primary demographic, a direction that’s as interesting as it is bold. A major goal of their work is to alleviate the amount of resources that are being used to for agriculture, particularly raising animals.

Click the link below for Daniel Fromson’s in-depth article and more of Brown’s thoughts on the future of food and how his company fits into that future (where one can only hope that it won’t cost $325,000 for one of these burgers).

Original article & image source: http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/silicon-valley-fake-meat-burger.html