If we can grow cruelty-free meat in a lab, what is there to beef about? | Barbara Ellen

Science is forcing vegans and vegetarians who demand others join them to think againWith the developments in laboratory-cultured meat, vegetarians and vegans need to ask themselves: is it still about animal welfare or is it about stopping people eating meat?Cultured meat, produced in bioreactors from muscle cells taken from live animals, has been approved for the first time by a regulatory authority. "Chicken bites" by San Francisco startup Eat Just have been approved for sale by the Singapore Food Agency. It's a landmark moment that could lead to a revolution in "kind/clean" meat, significantly cutting down industrial livestock production, potentially doing away with it altogether. Continue reading...