Marty and Sandeep talk about their very unscientific, yet tasty taste test in which they compared grass-fed beef with the Impossible burger, which is a pea protein based patty.  They also reached out to Upside Foods for some lab cultured meat and hope that in the future they can compare that as well.   While they couldn't participate in this taste test,  we may be able to obtain some cultured meat samples in the near future. 

However you look at it, the writing is on the wall for the large scale, feedlot, corporate meat industry and the University of Maastricht shared these facts:

• Cells from a single cow could produce 175 million quarter-pounders. Traditional farming methods would need 440,000 cows
• Global meat demand estimated to increase by 73% by 2050. But we already use 70% of farm land for livestock
• Livestock farming for meat is responsible for ~18% of all greenhouse emissions, more than all global transport combined

At the end of the day, the question on most peoples tongues (sorry about that pun) is cost and flavor/texture.  The results were fairly surprising.