After a two-year approval process, Australia has just approved the consumption of lab-grown meat.
After a two-year approval process, Australia has officially authorized the consumption of lab-developed meat.
Vow Foods, a food tech startup, has received the green light to sell three products made from Japanese quail cells, including a foie gras, which will soon appear on the menus of some of Australia’s most sophisticated restaurants.
To produce cultivated meat, the perfect cells are selected from an animal and placed in a large fermentation tank filled with a nutrient-rich liquid designed to replicate the environment inside a living animal. From there, the cells grow and multiply naturally.
Cultivated meat technology aims to reverse the major negative environmental impact caused by traditional livestock farming and to eliminate animal suffering.
Australia is the third country in the world to approve the consumption of lab-grown meat, which is already sold in Singapore and the United States.
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