If we can grow cruelty-free meat in a lab, what is there to beef about? | Barbara Ellen
by Barbara Ellen from Science | The Guardian on (#5B96F)
Science is forcing vegans and vegetarians who demand others join them to think again
With the developments in laboratory-cultured meat, vegetarians and vegans need to ask themselves: is it still about animal welfare or is it about stopping people eating meat?
Cultured meat, produced in bioreactors from muscle cells taken from live animals, has been approved for the first time by a regulatory authority. Chicken bites" by San Francisco startup Eat Just have been approved for sale by the Singapore Food Agency. It's a landmark moment that could lead to a revolution in kind/clean" meat, significantly cutting down industrial livestock production, potentially doing away with it altogether.
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