Lab-grown burgers and cricket salads ‘could be meal staples by 2054’

An AI-generated image of a bug salad (Co-op/PA)

Lab-grown burgers and cricket salads could be meal staples by 2054, according to a study.

The next 30 years will see consumers turn increasingly to laboratory-grown meat cultured from animal tissues – with the potential to reduce emissions, land use and water consumption, researchers from University of York-based FixOurFood programme believe.