Researchers in the Netherlands have announced that they have figured out how to grow test-tube muscle tissue. The type currently being produced is a mixture of pig and horse, which the Brit's reporting the story refer to as "hamburger".
There's a reason why the joke has it that in Hell your cook is English.
Anyway the process is slow and labor intensive and the estimated price is EUR250,000 ($329,949.80), with no units given, so we don't know if that's for a single burger, a Dutch kilo, or a British whole cow, but however you slice it, the price will eclipse the $250/lb currently paid for White House favorite Wago beef, and should make it the new favorite there.
If the researchers are quick on their feet, a $500M grant from the US Dept of Agriculture should be obtainable with a 1% kickback to the president's super-PAC. Better move fast as this opportunity may well disappear come January '13.
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