Lab-grown sausages named after Sir Winston Churchill could be on your plate next year. They come from pork artificially reared in 37C water tanks and fed with vitamins, minerals and nutrients.
The meat originates from pigs, with cubic centimetre sections of fat and muscle sliced from the legs of anaesthetised animals, reports The Times.
Developed by Oxford University and Ivy Farm Technologies – a firm whose scientist co-founder comes from a family of butchers – by 2025 it is hoped the method could produce 12,000 tonnes of pork a year, equivalent to 170,000 pigs.
Ivy Farm's test sausages were produced last year and were codenamed 'Churchill' due to the war-time leader's 1931 prediction: “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole
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