You are walking down the grocery aisle, scanning the usual offers, when the label on a packet of sausages catches your eye. The sausages look normal, but there is something different about the label that intrigues you: ‘Lab-Grown Meat – Cruelty Free, Environmentally Friendly, 100% Real’. Are you curious enough to try them out?
Lab-grown meat, also known as cultivated or cell-based meat, is a meat alternative developed from animal cells rather than the slaughter of livestock. Unlike plant-based alternatives that mimic meat using non-animal ingredients, lab-grown meat is created from the same cellular components as conventional meat, which means it is real, just not in the traditional sense.
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