Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It’s the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.

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    Some lab grown meat companies have figured out how to do it without any animal cells, but it’s a fairly new development. Requiring actual animal cells is just v1

    Things move quickly though, there is already non-animal whey being created that is chemically equivalent to dairy whey using the same process they use to make insulin. Check out Coolhaus. They also make cream cheese and a babybel cheese with it I think

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      1 year ago

      That would be ideal, it would be possible to consume meat keeping cruelty free standards. Hopefully it will happen soon.

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      I can see how you can make fake meat without animal cells - but this class of food is ‘lab grown meat’. When you don’t have animal cells it’s no longer lab grown animal meat.

      edit: I guess there is a difference between using animal cells during ‘production’ and during ‘development’. I CAN see how the former can be achieved, but not the latter.