Badara

[Drax]

LAB GROWN CHICKEN AT NIT
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(If it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Finance Ministry, July 17, 5714:  The Monsoon asked Finance Minister Nazir al-Sayed if the laboratory meat project was going ahead, and he replied:
 

Absolutely. And it will start again where it did 800 years ago.  At the National Institute of Technology Zoology Department. It will receive funding from appropriations to the Education Ministry. The purpose of the project is to grow chicken meat from stem cells with a view to making a lab grown product available to food markets in Jumhurat al-Badara.
 
The impetus for the project is, first of all, that the environmental impact will be far less than raising and feeding chickens for slaughter, and second, eliminating the killing of the birds would seem to be more humane than the current practice.  Further, it is likely in the long run lab grown meat will be less expensive than meat from slaughtered animals.
 
The project is expected to be expanded to other meat eaten by the Jumhuriat al-Badara population such as beef and fish.  It is generally believed chicken is the place to start because taste and appearance issues have been resolved.  The project is not intended to appeal to vegetarians but people who eat meat.
 
Stem cells from the outside of living chickens are taken and initially grown in petri dishes in a laboratory.  When the project reaches production scale it will be produced in giant meat fermenters so production facilities will resemble a brewery or greenhouse depending on what is ultimately the most effective method.  The biological end product is meat; chicken in this case which looks like chicken and tastes like chicken.