Good news, cats and dogs: you can now legally eat lab-grown meat. The milestone comes courtesy of a world-first permit for cultivated pet food. Czech startup Bene Meat Technologies received the inaugural license from the EU on Wednesday. The company can now produce and sell the futuristic cuisine, which is made from cells taken from living animals. After extraction, the cells are placed in a bioreactor and grown into muscle tissue. The flesh is then formed into the desired shape. The process could reduce emissions and prevent animal suffering, while creating meat that’s indistinguishable from farmed produce. It could also be…
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