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The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 11:27pm On Jul 28, 2013
*First test tube-grown beef will be served in London restaurant this week*

The world’s first test tube burger will be served at an exclusive London venue this week - with a price tag of £250,000.
The 5oz burger is made of synthetic meat grown from the stem cells of a cow.
Scientist Mark Post, from Maastricht University, believes the development could help solve problems in the meat industry.
He said 'Right now, we are using 70 per cent of all our agricultural capacity to grow meat through livestock. You are going to need alternatives. If we don’t do anything meat will become a luxury food and will become very expensive.’
A four-step technique is used to turn stem cells from animal flesh into a burger.
First, the stem cells are stripped from the cow’s muscle.
Next, they are incubated in a nutrient broth until they multiply many times over, creating a sticky tissue with the consistency of an undercooked egg.
This ‘wasted muscle’ is then bulked up through the laboratory equivalent of exercise - it is anchored to Velcro and stretched.
Finally, 3,000 strips of the lab-grown meat are minced, and, along with 200 pieces of lab-grown animal fat, formed into a burger.
The process is still lengthy, as well as expensive, but it could take just six weeks from stem cell to supermarket shelf.
His work is funded by the Dutch government, as well as an anonymous donation of 300,000 euros - but it remains to be seen, however, whether the pioneering development will find favour with a public that likes to think of its chops, steaks and sausages as having their roots in nature, rather than in test-tubes.
He first attempts involved mouse burgers. He then tried to grow pork in a dish, producing strips with the rubbery texture of squid or scallops, before settling on beef.
His burger consists of about 20,000 thin strips of cultured muscle tissue.
The cell-grown burger is produced with materials — including fetal calf serum, which used to grow the cells — that will eventually be replaced by materials not orginating from animals, the New York Times reported.
http://giniterese..com/2013/07/the-250000-hamburger-first-test-tube.html?showComment=1375050190616#c4991838392834877008
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Afam4eva(m): 12:36am On Jul 29, 2013
London people and vanity sha. Puff puff don finish for Naija?
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 12:42am On Jul 29, 2013
Afam4eva: London people and vanity sha. Puff puff don finish for Naija?

Lol.. Na 'fish and chips' dey reign for England. grin
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 12:45am On Jul 29, 2013
Lol I know afam must comment negatively.

Interesting experiment. If I eat this burger, will I become invincible ? tongue
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by BabaAlabi: 12:57am On Jul 29, 2013
Ova #60 mil....shebi if I chop am, I no go hungry again?
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 1:00am On Jul 29, 2013
BabaAlabi: Ova #60 mil....shebi if I chop am, I no go hungry again?

Lmaaoo grin
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 1:00am On Jul 29, 2013
BabaAlabi: Ova #60 mil....shebi if I chop am, I no go hungry again?
No mind them
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 6:36pm On Jul 29, 2013
This one na olowo fowo raku( the rich using money to buy death).why would i waste such a huge amount of money to buy plastic food?

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Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Mamacita007(f): 6:22pm On Jul 30, 2013
but why is a burger made of synthetic grown meet so expensive? am sticking wit my mcdonalds burger jor grin grin

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Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 6:55pm On Jul 30, 2013
Mamacita007: but why is a burger made of synthetic grown meet so expensive? am sticking wit my mcdonalds burger jor grin grin
Correct decision grin
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by scientology(m): 5:46pm On Aug 02, 2013
fu....ck their burger...those 3000 pounds visa bond freaks

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Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by rozayx5(m): 5:46pm On Aug 02, 2013
does it serve as permanent immunity to sickness tongue
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by IAMBREEZY: 5:48pm On Aug 02, 2013
Imagine buying a burger 4 £250,000 am i crazy,

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Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by YvonneDiamond(f): 5:48pm On Aug 02, 2013
Ok

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Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Phonon: 5:49pm On Aug 02, 2013
So we must visit your junior brother's blog before we see the picture? You no know say na free MB we dey take browse. Person go just dey waste MB clicking too many links.

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Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by palugycolina(m): 5:49pm On Aug 02, 2013
if you chop am you go get plenty sense..
But be careful oh..
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by chidigood(f): 5:50pm On Aug 02, 2013
Oyibo sha, very soon dey go conduct one research. Abeg i don tire for them.
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by alaoeri: 5:51pm On Aug 02, 2013
Hope say the burger 'll be imported from paradise.
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by eduson33(m): 5:51pm On Aug 02, 2013
do you really need an answer?
adaobi123: Lol I know afam must comment negatively.

Interesting experiment. If I eat this burger, will I become invincible ? tongue
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 5:51pm On Aug 02, 2013
I have a hard time eating corn-fed beef, talkless of beef that was created in a lab. No thanks.

They should change the name from hamburger to chemiburger. lipsrsealed

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Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 5:52pm On Aug 02, 2013
dont be surprised that some nigerians that want to show 'big boys things' will be in attendance and they will later start looking for cancer treatment. Even if served free in my neighborhood, i will never eat such,lailai, no mata how purified they claim it is. I dont want to start looking for donations to traet cancer or kidney failure, or swelling of liver. Shhhhh

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Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by kkkp: 5:52pm On Aug 02, 2013
Dis burger go give me automatic ticket to heaven
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by plainmirror(m): 5:53pm On Aug 02, 2013
Waiter!
Weterem isiewugrin

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Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by eduson33(m): 5:53pm On Aug 02, 2013
forget that lab story..
that thing na camel meat.

if you need source , ask me tongue
ogugua88: I have a hard time eating corn-fed beef, talkless of beef that was created in a lab and grown in a test tube. No thanks.
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by favouredchild(m): 5:53pm On Aug 02, 2013
Where is Mr cork the Londoner to tell us what this burger tastes like
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by eduson33(m): 5:54pm On Aug 02, 2013
BREAKING NEWS:the burger detects illegal immigrants
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 5:57pm On Aug 02, 2013
I was watching TED TALK ViDEO yester-night, and the guest speaker said "Plastic Surgery would be a practical joke in the next two or three decade". He said this when he was explaining the process of brain evolution, scientist have been able to print rat's liver, they have also been able to grow any part of the body from a common puri-potent cell of the skin. For non science people, what this means is that:

Human being would soon be able to buy spare part in market, when you have a broken nose, all the need to do is extract some cells from your skin and grow it into the desired part, same goes for all organs.

I just don't know if we're supposed to be happy about all this discovery or scared.
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 5:57pm On Aug 02, 2013
eduson33: do you really need an answer?

Do you understand sarcasm ? tongue
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Ogbodavies(m): 5:59pm On Aug 02, 2013
All dis bio-tech food again.......thank GOd 4 d natural food resources in my village
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by eduson33(m): 6:01pm On Aug 02, 2013
ya...its the language we use in our village..
what about u? kiss
adaobi123:

Do you understand sarcasm ? tongue
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by free2ryhme: 6:06pm On Aug 02, 2013
another way to feed poison to people already dead
Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by Nobody: 6:09pm On Aug 02, 2013
Mr cork

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