---
title: "Cultured meat could spell the end of traditional cattle farming within just a few decades"
description: "The price of producing lab grown meat could drop from $250,000/burger to $80/kilo over the next decade."
date: "2015-03-29"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Radu Serban"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/techie1986"
url: "https://futurism.com/cultured-meat-could-spell-the-end-of-traditional-cattle-farming-within-just-a-few-decades"
categories:
  - "Biology"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "biology"
---

# Cultured meat could spell the end of traditional cattle farming within just a few decades

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- Traditional meat sources will not be able to satisfy the world's growing demand for protein, and that cattle, in particular are an inefficient use of resources.
- Cattle are very inefficient animals in converting vegetable proteins into animal proteins. We lose actually a lot of food by giving it to animals as an intermediate. At an environmental scale in methane and other greenhouse gases exhaust, it is also for the environment not a very healthy system.
- A year and a half ago the professor of vascular physiology gave the world its first taste of a lab grown beef burger. It passed the food critics' taste test, but at more than a quarter of a million dollars, the lab quarter-pounder was no threat to the real deal.