[OKC] Dutch scientists develop pig-free synthetic pork chop

[Harlan Hentges]

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January 16, 2010 08:40pm

SCIENTISTS have grown a pork chop in a lab from stem cells and say it could
offer an eco-friendly alternative to farming livestock.

The faux chop is made of 2cm long strips of meat and is said to have the
texture of a scallop.

Mark Post, of Maastricht University in the Netherlands said cells to make
meat could be replicated in vast numbers, The Sun
<http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/> reports.
<http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/> 

He said: "If we took stem cells from one pig and multiplied it by a million,
we'd need a million fewer pigs to get the same amount of meat."

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