The Null Device

Love meat but don't like killing animals? A scientist in the Netherlands has announced a way of creating artificial meat. And not just meat substitute, but actual vat-grown steaks, grown in tanks of nutrient solution from muscle cells collected from otherwise unharmed "animal donors". The process is similar to that used to grow artificial skin, and could be used to grow ethically-sound meat of a number of species, common and exotic.

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