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Bringing Home the (Lab-Grown) Bacon

The Meat of the Future
Jakub Bas
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Jakub Bas:
An enthusiast of wandering along the winding paths of personal growth. Enjoys reading and writing.

Can the world make the transition to lab-grown animal protein?

The story goes something like this: a long, long time ago nothing was wanting or, to be exact, the only thing wanting was effort, because you didn’t need to make any. There was plenty of food, and no conditions applied. Well, almost none. There was this one apple tree that was off limits, and yet this is the tree whose fruit the gluttonous Eve decided to eat. And everything went awry. From then on, getting food

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Jakub Bas:
An enthusiast of wandering along the winding paths of personal growth. Enjoys reading and writing.
Translation: Adam Zdrodowski
Publish date: 18.09.2020

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