'Pain-free meat': how synthetic sausages could be on our plates in six months

Pig cells + horse foetal serum = synthetic sausage. That's the formula for growing meat in a Petri dish.

'Pain-free meat': how synthetic sausages could be on our plates in six months Article-sausage-420x0

'Pain-free meat': how synthetic sausages could be on our plates in six months Article-sausage-420x0

And scientists said the world's first lab-grown sausage - or "pain-free meat" - could be just six months away.
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Today, almost 1 billion people are undernourished, the World Bank said. In the Horn of Africa, more than 12 million people in five countries face starvation.

And as the world's population hits 7 billion at the end of next month and 9.3 billion by 2050, according to United Nations' projections, the need for additional food sources will become more pressing.

So can synthetic food grown from cells in a laboratory help to tackle world hunger? Will eating what has been dubbed "meat without slaughter" help the environment, by putting less strain on it than traditional farming and food processing methods?

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'Pain-free meat': how synthetic sausages could be on our plates in six months

'Pain-free meat': how synthetic sausages could be on our plates in six months

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