{"id":98548,"date":"2019-11-14T05:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/this-breakthrough-in-lab-grown-meat-could-make-it-look-like-real-flesh"},"modified":"2019-11-14T05:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:02:29","slug":"this-breakthrough-in-lab-grown-meat-could-make-it-look-like-real-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/this-breakthrough-in-lab-grown-meat-could-make-it-look-like-real-flesh","title":{"rendered":"This Breakthrough in Lab-Grown Meat Could Make it Look Like Real Flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1lUuDi_s_Zo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Harvard have created a texture in meat grown in a lab close to the actual animal meat we\u2019re used to. Would you eat it?<br \/> \u00bb Subscribe to Seeker!<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker<\/a><br \/> \u00bb Watch more Elements! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human meat consumption is bad for the planet\u2014livestock raised for food makes up for approximately 14\u201318% of our greenhouse gas emissions, and the land requirements to grow their food is responsible for nearly 80% of all deforestation in the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>80%!<\/p>\n<p>So scientists have been working to create a realistic imitation for animal meat in a lab, and with a recent breakthrough researchers from Harvard have come one step closer to making lab-grown meat taste and feel like the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p>Gelatin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/this-breakthrough-in-lab-grown-meat-could-make-it-look-like-real-flesh\">Continue reading \u201cThis Breakthrough in Lab-Grown Meat Could Make it Look Like Real Flesh\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Harvard have created a texture in meat grown in a lab close to the actual animal meat we\u2019re used to. Would you eat it? \u00bb Subscribe to Seeker!http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker \u00bb Watch more Elements! http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist Human meat consumption is bad for the planet\u2014livestock raised for food makes up for approximately 14\u201318% of our greenhouse gas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}