Artificial meat? Food for thought by 2050

By John Vidal
August 16, 2010

"Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the world's leading scientists report today. But a major academic assessment of future global food supplies, led by John Beddington, the UK government chief scientist, suggests that even with new technologies such as genetic modification and nanotechnology, hundreds of millions of people may still go hungry owing to a combination of climate change, water shortages and increasing food consumption...."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/16/artificial-meat-food-royal-society