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From lab to table

‘L AB-GROWN MEAT’, ‘clean meat’, ‘cultured meat’, ‘cellular agriculture’… Does that sound like something you’d want to eat? Well, companies such as Mosa Meat are putting their money where their mouths are and betting that you’ll give it a go.

It’s old news by now – regardless of your ethical take on eating animals – that consuming meat is simply not good for planet Earth. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the intensive industrial farming of animals for meat contributes to global warming (livestock farming is responsible for 15 per cent

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