This is what Christmas dinner will be like in 2050, according to experts

By 2050, your Christmas dinner could look very, very different – with turkey grown in vats and filled with extra vitamins, after ‘real’ farming ends in the 2030s.

Experts speaking to E&T magazine – a division of the Institution of Engineering and Technology – said that by 2050, ‘pigging out’ on Christmas may also be a thing of the past.

Instead, we’ll all eat small portions – doled out by our ‘smart’ fridges.

Today’s obsession with Fitbit-style health monitoring technology will have blossomed into a future where everything is monitored – and our fridges will dole out specific amounts of calories, in return for lower life insurance premiums.

The ‘turkey’ on our plates will be suitably healthy, of course – ‘grown’ in huge bioreactors, designed to contain more vitamins and Omega 3 and less cholesterol and saturated fat.

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Dr Kurt Schmidinger of the Future Food Project believes that a combination of anti-biotic resistant bacteria and an outbreak of pandemics – most likely from chicken farms – are likely to bring industrial scale animal farming to an end by 2030.

Chris Davis, founder of Impossible Foods suggests that specially selected stem cells will be taken from farm or wild animals and then ‘grown’ cloned or cultured to provide vast quantities of ‘meat’ and without requiring any animal to be killed.

E&T editor-in-chief Dickon Ross said: ‘Traditionalists need not fear as new technology will mean that we can continue to enjoy our Christmas feast while also protecting both or own health and the environment. In future even turkeys will vote for Christmas!’