Image: Cultured Beef
On August 4th, the first lab-grown burger was subjected to a taste-test. The prognosis? "Not unpleasant." Needs salt, maybe cheese. The same day, Google's Sergey Brin was revealed as the benefactor of the expensive synthetic meat project—that single hamburger, the internet loves to point out, cost $330,000.
Brin's lab meat isn't the only high-profile food innovation Silicon Valley is serving up at the moment, though it's probably the most expensive. Convention-thwarting food products and ideas have won headlines in recent months, from that stem cell hamburger to meat-hacking conferences to Soylent, the internet-famous food replacement serum. Part of the reason that these products are garnering so much media attention is surely because they're being "hacked" by Silicon Valley's bigwigs and aspirants alike.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Hacking Meat: "With the Googleburger and Soylent, Silicon Valley Is Officially on a Quest for Food"
From Motherboard: