What if you could keep eating meat without contributing to the slaughter of animals? That would be perfect scenario for everybody, right? Well that's not a dream anymore, it's a reality! In an effort to provide an alternative to the large-scale industrial slaughter of animals, Dr. Uma Valeti and his team of researchers at the University of Minnesota developed a technique to produce meat without killing animals. They produced kill-free, contamination-free meat products from harvested animal cells in under 21 days. They used animal cells that were able to renew themselves, supplied them with oxygen and nutrients such as sugar, and cultivated them into an edible product in nine to 21 days, The Huffington Post reports. Besides sparing the lives of animals, the meat created in the laboratory has reduced saturated fats and added benefit of being free of bacterial contamination. "The meat that we are growing is identical at the molecular and cellular level," Valeti told PTI. Approximately 56