Slaughter-free sausages: trying the latest lab-grown meat creation
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Meatable hopes its cultivated sausages will satisfy the world’s appetite for meat without harming animals or the planetEven before I see the sausages, I am greeted by their rich, meaty aroma. Sizzling in a pan of foaming margarine, they look like regular chipolatas being fried up for a Sunday breakfast, their pink-grey exteriors slowly turning a rich caramel brown.Consisting of 28% pork fat, bulked out with textured pea, chickpea, soy and wheat protein, these mini-bratwursts would happily sit...

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