First-ever public tasting of lab-grown Cultured Beef burger
On Monday 5 August, Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University presented a burger made from Cultured Beef in front of an invited audience in London. This first-ever public tasting highlighted the urgent need to find a sustainable solution to food production.
This was acknowledged by the World Technology Network when Mark Post received the World Technology Award for Environment on 15 November. The Award winners are individuals and organizations that are doing innovative work of “the greatest likely long-term significance" in their fields.
Below you will find some background information on the cultured beef project.
UM reports:
- Project fact sheet
- Interview with Mark Post in the UM webmagazine, 20 June 2012
- Lab-grown burger at Llowlab 2012 (in Dutch only)
- Press release
- Pre event press release
- Profile Mark Post
- FAQ
- Background information
- Fact sheet
- Press release World Technology Award 2013
- Watch the video report of the WTN Gala with 2013 winner Mark Post (starts at 0:30:00)
Lab-grown Cultured Beef burger in the press:
- Could a test-tube burger save the planet?, The Washington Post, 5 August 2013
- Lab-grown beef taste test: 'Almost' like a burger, The Washington Post, 5 August 2013
- World's first $332,000 lab-grown burger to change the global diet, Russia Today, 5 August 2013
- Test-Tube Burger Guards: What's Their Beef?, Sky News, 5 August 2013
- Will your next burger come from a petri dish? National Geographic, 6 August 2013
- First -grown hamburger gets full marks for 'mouth feel', The Guardian, 6 August 2013
- Biefburger gekweek en geëet, Volksblad (Zuid-Afrika), 6 August 2013
- Q&A: the science of growing a hamburger, The New Zealand Herald, 7 August 2013
Africa: In 10 or 20 Years We May be eating Lab-Grown Meat, The Star (Kenia), 8 August 2013
- A quarter-million pounder and fries, The Economist, 10 August 2013
Official launch of Cultured Beef burger
Introduction and long version of the launch
