More companies are making lab-grown meat - so why isn’t it for sale in European shops?
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One of the big questions facing humanity right now is how to feed a global population with an increasing demand for meat, while not destroying the planet in the process.
The future of food was high on the agenda at Web Summit in Lisbon this month, and executives from two cultivated meat companies explained in detail to Euronews Next why lab-grown meat may hold the answer.
What their companies - and dozens of others - have demonstrated is that it is possible to take a tiny sample of cells from an animal, and from that sample grow meat in a lab without the need to raise, rear or kill the animal.
The process was first demonstrated to a worldwide audience nearly a decade ago, when the first lab-grown burger was eaten at a press conference in London.
And just this week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the sale of lab-grown chicken for human consumption, following in the footsteps of Singapore, the first country to do so in 2020.
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