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Meat grown from cells: How companies are clamouring to put it on your plate

Meanwhile, the debate around the regulation of cell-based meat has stepped up significantly

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Neil Stephens | The Conversation
Could this be the year that meat grown in vats rather than taken from animals reaches our plates? In the summer of 2017, San Francisco-based food company Just (formerly Hampton Creek), announced plans to put meat grown in vats on the market by the end of 2018. The firm’s slick promotional video featured people eating nuggets grown from the cells of a chicken that walked past them as they ate, and stressed the potential for this meat to have a lower environmental impact.
Fifteen months later, the company has said this will take the form

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