Price of Lab-Grown Burger Falls from $325K to $11.36

Lab-grown meat will be on our plates sooner than we may realize.

 Natalie Shoemaker
29 October, 2015
Price of Lab-Grown Burger Falls from $325K to $11.36

Lab-grown meat could be on your plate within the next five years. For the past few years, the barrier to getting test-tube meat into the hands of consumers has been the cost of production. In 2013, it was around $325,000 to make this stuff in a lab, but the process has been refined, and the cost now is just $11.36.

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