THE EXPLAINER
Apr 14, 2021
3 minutes
by DR EMMA DAVIES
HOW IS ARTIFICIAL MEAT MADE?
Also known as cultured or cell-based meat, artificial meat is grown from animal cells in a laboratory. Start-up companies have grown artificial beef, pork, chicken and even fish. However, none is commercially available yet.
There are different ways to grow artificial meat, but most use adult stem cells from a live animal. For beef, a tiny muscle sample is taken from a cow, under local anaesthesia. The muscle is chopped into smaller
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