The first bio-3D printed steak created in Israel, looks tasty?

Meat lovers and animal rights activists can finally rejoice together (we think) – because now there’s a no-slaughter steak you can eat right away … a Petri dish.

A group of Israeli scientists and a group of restaurants have unveiled what they say is the first slice of beef prepared in a lab, using a spooky 3D printer !!! It’s not the technology you see on Pinterest, however … it’s bio-printing, the same idea – but with cells.

It’s a little complicated to explain, but basically they take the “natural building blocks of meat” – a cow’s tissue – incubate it, and then build it up under a microscope. Ultimately you get what you see here … a rib eye steak, free from genetic engineering or Frankenstein DNA.

The scientific breakthrough comes 2 years after biomedical engineers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (the same guys who made this rib eye) cultivated a thin cut steak, with no bioprinting.

Now that they’ve mastered the technique, they say they’re on other cuts.

It goes without saying that it could revolutionize the meat production industry if widely adopted. So many unanswered questions, but the first and most important being … is it okay ???