of the ground beef available in supermarkets but folks in the meat business say there is smog wrong with it and that their industry is being unfairly attacked by the media. it is all nutritious including our product and that s, you know that is the frustrating thing for us and to get our word out to the consumer base because this is safe. this is what i feed to my children, okay? this is what i feel comfortable with everyone of you feeding to your children. reporter: last year mcdonald s stopped using ground beef that contains the filler. last week the u.s. government decided it would give school lunch programs the option of buying meat with or with out it. celebrity chef jamie oliver is jumping on the bandwagon that people have right to know if the meat they re buying contains the filler. right now there is no change to the fda company that meat companies do not have to list it on an ingredient on their packaging.
grows stem cells in a dish, which then clump together and grow into muscle. it s real meat. so it should look and taste like the real thing. researchers say it s more efficient than farming. just one animal could make a billion burgers. a possibility that s been welcomed by animal welfare groups. but locals at a nearby hot dog restaurant are wary. there s nothing better than natural meat. and you know, this is how we ve been raised our whole lives here. so we know where the farming comes from. we know who s processing it for us. we know how good it is. reporter: buying meat in supermarkets is something that we take for granted nowadays. but not for very much longer, according to some economists. they believe that because of rising demand from india and china meat prices are set to soar. we have about a billion people that are undernourished on the planet. and as we push toward 9 billion by 2050 we re going to need to produce a lot more food. reporter: professor post hopes that
it s not just contained to one particular area. and obviously, with those cattle markets shut that does mean that these retail prices are increasing. so it is a struggle for those people who are buying meat, they are very big meat eaters here in south korea, and obviously very significant for the farmers themselves. they are getting compensation from the government when their cattle are called, but certainly with the a very specific beef to south korea, they ve been bred for many, many years. so it s not just one cow that is being killed, of course it is years of breeding. andrew. paula, it also raises a rather a tricky issue, i guess, because the beef and the pork imports are rising now, as you ve been saying. given the fact that south korea and the u.s. have quite a long history of disputes over beef, don t they? reporter: absolutely. i mean this is horribly ironic
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