The Science Briefing

Meat without slaughter: would you eat lab-grown meat?

The Science Briefing

Show Notes

It might walk and talk like meat... but is meat grown in a lab, actually meat?

Yes!

Lab grown meat is coming in hot – and fast – as a sustainable, cruelty free alternative to regular meat.

But how is it made? And does it taste any good?

Dr Sophie Calabretto and Cosmos Magazine journalist Jacinta Bowler put cultivated meat to the taste test and run through some of the wild lab meat ideas manufacturers have in the works. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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