Vote for cultured meat pioneer Mark Post
“Prospect salutes the scientists, philosophers and writers reshaping our times”, reads the opening line in the British current affairs magazine Prospect, announcing its annual intellectual hit parade, part of the editors’ ongoing search for the most influential thinkers of the moment.
The monthly magazine has presented 50 names for the public to vote for. Among famous names such Jacinda Ardern (Prime Minister of New Zealand), Sir David Attenborough, historian William Dalrymple, Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo, German philosopher Jürgen Habermas and British writer Hilary Mantel is that of cultured meat pioneer Mark Post, researcher with UM’s School for Cardiovascular Diseases – CARIM.
Votes can be cast until 1 August via this link: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/2020-thinker.
"My goal is to replace the entirety of livestock production with cultured meat," the Dutch pharmacologist is quoted as saying. A daring ambition, according to the magazine, but interesting enough for Sergey Brin co-founder of Google uncle to invest heavily in it. Seven years ago, Post produced a hamburger from in-vitro meat. The price tag: $325,000. Now Post's company, Mosa Meat, is planning to make affordable cultured meat available to the general public as early as next year.
Mosa Meat is currently drawing worldwide media attention. Recent reports can be watched and read on Russia Today, the Australian national radio station ABC, the American popular technology website TechCrunch, the international news website Yahoo and the Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
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