When meat and water are being made in laboratories...

Yes, you heard it right. This year the world's population will reach a new milestone and to feed those billions of mouth we are in real need of science. Water is very scarce and it really needs attention. However, scientists also believe that if the rate of meat consumption goes up in this rate then it will also become scarce very soon. So the idea of synthetic meat has arrived. Although they have not gone very far with the experiment but they are considering it very seriously.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that the annual meat production needs to double to 463 million tonnes by 2050. The rise is particularly very high in China. Right now the future of meat is just a small white blob in a Petri dish but the experiment is progressing very fast. Scientists are now being able to grow edible muscles in the lab. However after DNA culture and development of edible muscle, the real obstacle is the flavour. if the flavour is not like that of real meat then people will not accept it.And more over synthetic meat is also veggie friendly and does not result in massacre of innocent animals. We need to wait and watch.



However the recycling of urine is in full speed. the idea of drinking your urine might be disgusting but the people of Big Spring, Texas has taken up this as a major option after they faced the worst drought ever. The district manager has told that they are taking treated effluent which are normally discharged into the drain and is mixing them with water. NASA has recycled urine for astronauts but this process in Texas is neither as direct as that of NASA nor is it for astronauts. The urine recycling is a major progress and this maybe considered by many drought prone areas.

For now, we are just to wait and watch miracles of science. So, before having some meat or drinking some water we have to think where has it come from!

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