Elephant in the dining room: Australian start-up makes woolly mammoth meatball
An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a lab-grown meatball made from the DNA of a woolly mammoth - 4,000 years after the animal went extinct.
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An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a lab-grown meatball made from the DNA of a woolly mammoth - 4,000 years after the animal went extinct.
It has yet to be tasted as scientists say they would have 'no idea how our immune system would react when we eat it'
Throw another mammoth on the barbie? An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made...
Australian cultured meat company Vow Food has produced a meatball that incorporates DNA from the extinct woolly mammoth.
The meatball is a one-off and has not been tasted, even by its creators, nor is it planned to be put into production. Instead, it was intended to get people talking about the future of meat.