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Letter: Nu-food redux

Published 30 July 2008

From Chris Collins

Your article about vat-grown meat (5 July, p 18) prompted a thought: “How about a milk machine?” Put grass and water in at one end and get milk – guaranteed free of tuberculosis – out of the other.

The problems of making an acceptable product would appear, to an ignoramus like me, to be far less than those of animal-free meat production.

Llandrindod Wells, Powys, UK

Issue no. 2667 published 2 August 2008

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