Artificial meat may answer food crisis

Funding, 'yuck factor' remain bigobstacles to future development

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - A 21st century American cowboy will resemble a worker in a high-tech plant creating artificial meat in a petri dish, a far cry from cattle ranches, according to biologist Vladimir Mironov.

The growth of "cultured" or in-vitro meat may be a vital step toward solving the global food crisis and fighting hunger in the future, Mironov said.