00:03this might look like a fairly normal bowl of rice but it's not this is a new hybrid rice that
00:09isn't
00:09just a grain it's also technically meat researchers at yonsei university in korea have developed a
00:15new process of culturing lab-grown cow fat and muscle cells inside grains of rice and this is
00:21the result a pinkish hued rice that has a high fat and protein content the developers say the
00:26process is currently laborious but it could one day be refined allowing humankind to meet its growing
00:32demand for food with researchers so young park saying about it quote imagine obtaining all of
00:37the nutrients we need from self-cultured protein rice rice already has a high nutrient level but
00:42adding cells from livestock can further boost it the process involves coating rice grains with fish
00:47gelatin then siphoning bovine muscle and fat stem cells into them for around 9 to 11 days the end
00:53result is this pink rice with eight percent more protein and seven percent more fat than traditional
00:59rice even with its current manufacturing process this meat rice is actually still cheaper to make
01:04than traditional beef and only around 15 percent the cost it releases far fewer emissions as well
01:09releasing eight times less co2 for the same weight of finished product
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