the fibers don't hang together like a steak or roast what you get as the texture of ground beef at least so far. cultured meat has advantages over natural beef heads of cattle do not have to roll and cultured meat is free of unwanted material like sinews gristle and fishes and it comes without hair or bones. the meat is also free of bacteria and of the anti by. roddick's and other chemicals often found in meat from non-organic lee grown cattle nowadays post only takes tiny samples of muscle from living animals to extract the stem cells but there is another problem. the medium in which stem cells are grown contains fetal bovine serum taken from the blood of cow fetuses both they and their mother colleagues have to be slaughtered. post is working on an alternative culture medium that does not involve killing any