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Professor Mark Post

08/08/2013 GMT

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Mark Post

Allan Little speaks to Professor Mark Post, developer of the first 'in vitro burger'. 

Professor Mark Post says his 'in vitro burger' could ease our unsustainable demand for meat, helping the environment. Will food grown from stem cells in labs make it to our plates?

In what's been billed as a 'world first', fast food grown in a laboratory was served up in London recently. HARDtalk speaks to Professor Mark Post who says his 'in vitro burger' could be the answer to our unsustainable appetite for meat and help ease the burden on the environment. There's clearly a need for more meat - the World Health Organisation estimates annual global production will have to double by 2050, so will meat grown from stem cells in a science lab ever make it to our dinner plates?

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