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The Company Leading the Future of FarmingModern Meadow aims to combine 3-D printing and tissue engineering to meet the world's demand for beef and leather.
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Here's a crazy idea: Combine3-D printingand tissue engineering to "print" animal products and tackle some of the planet's biggest problems. Animal farming, after all, accounts for about half of all human-caused greenhouse gases, taking place on one-third of the available, non-frozen land on Earth. All to feed people's appetites for 300 million tons of meat a year.
Enter Gabor and Andras Forgacs, father-and-son founders ofModern Meadow, a company they started in 2011 that may very well be the model for the farm of the future.
