Lab grown meat

Vow's Forged Gras can be served in a number of ways - but you can only taste it at select restaurants

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One of the world's cruelest delicacies gets a guilt-free makeover

Australian food company Vow is working on lab-grown foie gras that not only takes the cruelty out of producing it, but also aims to make a distinctively tastier version. You can now sample it in select restaurants in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Lab-grown chicken has been deemed safe by the FDA and now needs a green light from the US Department of Agriculture before reaching supermarket shelves

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FDA gives green light to first lab-grown chicken product in US

The FDA has given California company Upside Foods the green light for its lab-grown chicken, paving the way for it to reach market shelves next year, and making the US the second country in the world to allow legal sales of lab-grown meat products.

Wood, human blood, meat, and dairy can all be potentially grown in a lab. What else is in our lab-grown future?

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Blood, brains and burgers: The future is lab-grown everything

We currently rear animals for meat and dairy, cut down forests for wood, harvest organs from the deceased and mine the earth for diamonds. But what if all these things, and more, could be grown in a lab?