'Guilt-free sausages': Lab-grown pork could be coming to British menus by 2023 Jess Rawnsley Share Credit: Ivy Farm UK developer Ivy Farm Technologies sets sights on producing 12,000 tonnes of cultivated pork each year by 2025 The British public may soon be able to enjoy the flavour of sausages with none of the environmental and ethical guilt, thanks to the emergence of sustainable "slaughter-free" meat grown in a lab. Ivy Farm Technologies, an Oxford University spin-out pioneering the development of lab-grown meat, announced this week that it hopes to be the first company to put cultured meat on UK plates. The company said its "guilt-free sausages" were on track to appear in supermarkets and restaurants by 2023, with 'meatballs' and 'beef burger' products set to follow.