Google burger: Sergey Brin explains why he funded world’s first lab-grown beef hamburger

’Sometimes a new technology comes along and it has the capability to transform how we view the world,’ says Sergey Brin in this film explaining the environmental rationale for developing cultured meat. The Google co-founder bankrolled the €250,000 project at Maastricht University to produce the world’s first synthetic hamburger, which will be cooked and eaten at a press conference in London on Monday