Tech entrepreneurs are addressing the challenges of global food production . One startup , Modern Meadow , wants to engineer meat in a lab . It is working with scientists at Oxford University and other institutions on ways to grow plants that can be fed into an industrial process for making animal feed or processed into protein powder. Spotting an opportunity , a handful of biotechnology startups have begun developing alternative food products . But survey finds 80 % of Americans would not eat meat grown in a lab .
Tech entrepreneurs are addressing the challenges of global food production . One startup , Modern Meadow , wants to engineer meat in a lab . It is working with scientists at Oxford University and other institutions on ways to grow plants that can be fed into an industrial process for making animal feed or processed into protein powder. But survey finds 80 % of Americans would not eat meat grown in a lab .