Guardian Australia · Food & drink industry

Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened?

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We were promised a panacea for the climate crisis and a way to save our food system. So why is nobody firing up the chicken vats? I went to find outOn 5 August 2013, a man and a woman ate a burger. Not just any burger: a world-historic burger, made from cattle cells grown in a laboratory by Mark Post, a professor of…

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