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Can you get meat without dead animals? Why farmers are wrong to say no

Cattle ranchers in the US say beef must come from a slaughtered cow and not cells grown in a lab. The battle over the future of flesh has begun, says Sasha Chapman

By Sasha Chapman

25 July 2018

Mosa Meat burger

Should a lab-grown burger by Mosa Meat be labelled as “meat”?

Mosa Meat

A Dutch start-up announces it has raised $8.8 million to commercialise its lab-grown meat. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, the US meat industry is gearing up for a scuffle with the new kids on the block.

Mark Post, CEO of Maastricht-based Mosa Meat, predicts he can get the cost of its burger down to $10 by 2021, at which point he hopes to bring it to a restaurant near you. This is substantially cheaper than the world’s first cultured beef patty, which Post…

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