> Savir says the production cost of his chicken burger is $35, which seems high but is dramatically less than it was a few years ago. In 2013, a Dutch pharmacol

> Savir says the production cost of his chicken burger is $35, which seems high but is dramatically less than it was a few years ago. In 2013, a Dutch pharmacologist, Mark Post, made history by eating the first lab-grown beef burger. It cost about £225,000. There may also be some differences in complexity between the process involved for cultured beef versus cultured poultry, but even if the difference is 10x, this is the kind of reduction in costs that tends to point toward a technology actually becoming feasible in the mainstream. It's quite possible that the global meat industry will look very different another seven years from now.