Since 2008, he has
worked on creating «clean»
meat (i.e., cultured
meat), including a highly publicized project to produce a clean
meat hamburger, which was funded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to
work — thinking «this may be my last day of
work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to
work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed
meats (such as
hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.
Since announcing the prize, laboratory
work on in vitro
meat has come a long way, but it looks as if the first commercially viable in vitro
meat will be a beef
hamburger or a pork sausage, rather than anything involving chicken.