SCIENTISTS FIGURED OUT A WAY TO GROW MEAT IN A LAB WITHOUT RELYING ON ANY PRODUCTS FROM SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS.
A handful of startups are racing to create real pieces of meat out of animal cells in a lab.
But for the most part, the food that's used to coax those cells to proliferate is an animal product called fetal bovine serum, which comes from slaughtered cows. That means the lab-grown meat isn't yet cruelty-free.
However, the Dutch startup Meatable claims to have solved that problem by using only stem cells from animals' umbilical cords "This way, we don't harm the animals at all, and it's material that would otherwise get thrown away," Krijn De Nood, Meatable's CEO, told Business Insider in September.
The company aims to begin serving its slaughterfree burgers and sausages to restaurants in roughly four years.
Available in: https://amp.businessinsider.com/biggest-scientific-discoveriesof-2018-2018-12. Access in: 17 aug. 2019
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