But now real meat made (almost) without killing is here. The lab-grown chicken nuggets produced by US company Eat Just come from chicken cells taken in a biopsy and grown in a bioreactor with the aid of plant-based nutrients. They look and taste like chicken, because they are chicken. Just produced without a chicken brain or nervous system or the need for pain. (The one remaining issue for vegetarians is the need to use low levels of foetal bovine serum as a growth accelerant, with much research focusing on this.)

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