Lettuce, beer and crumpets hit by heatwave DROUGHT OF STOCK Tuna grown in laboratory is even better than the real fin
LAB-GROWN tuna could hit supermarket shelves by 2022, its inventors says.
Biochemist Mike Selden and business partner Brian Wyrwas’s company, which is based in San Francisco, uses cell culture to manufacture fish flesh. Mike told Channel 4’s Food Unwrapped: “At first we were hunter gatherers, then we domesticated animals and created agriculture. This is the next step, the cellular agriculture.”
Overfishing has decimated species of bluefin tuna, a sushi delicacy, around the world. Former chemistry teacher Mike said his team harvests cells SOARING temperatures and CO2 shortages are ruining barbecues as groceries run out.
Lettuce is now the latest product in a long line set to disappear from supermarket shelves in the coming weeks.
The British Leafy Salad Growers Association said demand was up and it is too hot at a time when 90 per cent of our salads are normally grown.
Spokesman Dieter Lloyd said it “looks entirely likely that there will be shortages” by the end of next week.
Beer, soft drinks, chicken, pork and even crumpets have been hit after foodgrade CO2 stocks ran low.
Some Wetherspoons pubs are temporarily out of John Smith’s ale and Strongbow cider during the World Cup. “that basically come to the rescue whenever you get a cut, they come and build more”, and then “replicate the biochemical environment inside of a fish outside of a fish”.
The result is a “fish paste” which the company is exploring ways to give structure to. THE blistering heatwave had happy Brits flocking to the beach.
But elsewhere there was no fun in the sun as water levels at the Lake District’s Thirlmere reservoir plunged and major fires spread.
Firefighters were still tackling blazes on Saddleworth Moor and Winter Hill, near Bolton.
The latest grassland fires spread on the moorland above Bolton.
There were also warnings issued for Dartmoor, the North Yorkshire moors and parts of Wales – now at risk of serious grass fires.
Police confirmed a 22-year-old man from Bolton had been detained on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life in connection with the Winter Hill fire and has been ”released under investigation”. The British Beer and Pub Association said brewers were “working their socks off” to keep the booze flowing. Water firms warn there could be hosepipe bans as reservoirs run dry. The first ban of the year kicked in yesterday in Northern Ireland. United Utilities, which covers the North West, appealed to customers to help them avoid a ban by not using their hosepipes. Severn Water has set up bottled water collection points after parts of Staffordshire and Shropshire saw supplies temporarily interrupted. Thames Water’s Andrew Tucker called for “just a few small changes to your routine” to conserve water supplies. The heatwave will continue this week but thunderstorms are forecast tomorrow in the South West and South Wales.