Lab Meat?

 There was a piece from yesterday via my public TV network in Hessen (HR), and it had to do with lab-produced 'beef'.

The short theme to this story is that a company out of Darmstadt....Merck....is on a study to eventually produce lab-meat, which would mean your grocery would slip over and try to convince you to buy this....instead of real-meat.

Problems?  Well....they got into the science part of it and admitted this one issue.  If this took off.....you'd have to grow a ton of fake-meat, and this would require magnificent/huge facilities.  

These facilities likely to be in Germany?  Well....they didn't say that.  Something that might be grown in Africa?  Well....you just sit there and wonder about this production side of the story.

I paused over this and wondered....out of a hundred meat-eaters....how many would convert?  Most people would give a 'go', but I seriously doubt that you get more than 20-percent of folks signed up to this lab idea.

Would Germany reach a point where they taxed the heck out of real meat....to entice you to cheap lab meat?  I could imagine that trend in ten years.