Word Food Day 2014 - Lab-grown meat

Pre-reading

Vocabulary

Petri dish:A Petri dish (sometimes spelled "Petrie dish" and alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish), named after the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, is a shallow cylindrical glass or plastic lidded dish that biologists use to culture cells – for examplebacteria – or small mosses.

Tissue: A tissue is an ensemble of similar cells from the same origin that together carry out a specific function.


To grow: to increase gradually in size, amount, etc.; expand

To culture: to grow (microorganisms/cells) in a culture medium

Minced meat: meat that has been minced or ground

Scaffold:  an artificial structure capable of supporting three-dimensional tissue formation.

Reading

Read the following article and discuss about the new alternative in meat production

Post-reading

The following questions could help the discussion.

• Could you describe the process of lab-grown meat? What kind of cells can be used as a source for lab-meat?
• What advantadges lab-grown meat have over  regular meat?

• Regarding to enviromental issues
• Regarding to nutritional issues
• Would you eat this kind of meat? Why/Why not?
• Do you think lab-grown meat is tasty?

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